Shepherd's Thing # 6

Spreeder is perhaps one of my favorie web 2.0 tools that I have ever seen. Being an English teacher, I am in a position where I need students to read. They read every day and I vary the technique used to read depending partly on my mood and partly on what they are reading. Some of my students are such poor readers that watching paint dry would be more interesting, and faster. I can see using Spreeder in two different ways. First, I can post a link to Spreeder on my class website (along with links for students to copy articles to paste into the site) so that students can work on their own with their reading skills. In addition, I can use this site as a bell-ringer activity in which I already have an article pasted into Spreeder, and once the bell rings I play it for the students who must write down the main idea of the article once it's finished. The only thing I wish Spreeder has is a way to save the articles that are pasted in there. I'll just have to keep track of that myself (perhaps by using Doris?).