Bringing Literature to the Digital Natives

Today two great examples of teachers using technology to bring literature alive!  The first is To Kill a Mockingbird Meets the 21st Century.  Here's what the teacher said in the article:

“So how to you take a classic book and make it relevant to kids today?  You include Facebook, Twitter, and IM into the project.  My 8th graders ate this project up!  If you want to see if your students truly have a grasp of character development, have them write tweets as that character.”

The second was a video on YouTube...a book trailer for The Scarlet Letter created by students in an AP English Class.

Do you think these students will ever forget these books? I don't! I only hope the media specialist was instrumental in these projects. If not....well...