Module+B+Web20+Online+Texts

= Web 20 Online Texts =

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There are so many rich and engaging online texts that your students will enjoy. You can access films, multimodal texts, great websites, short stories and lots more.

Here is a list that will be added to as more new sites are discovered:

**Non-fiction texts ** Hidden Memories: poignant and brilliant site with text, videos and diary entries: [|Gallipoli story webe site 'Hidden Memories'] Australian essays: [|Australian Essays] Backhand Stories: [|Backhand Original Stories] My Hero: Stories through film, word documents and audio clips: [|My Hero] Access newspapers from around the world: [|Newspapers] Avalanche multimedia story: [|The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek] Life stories - poignant digital stories QUT project: [|digital storytelling] Digital stories: [|Story Centre] WWI letters, photographs, etc: [|Our/Your War Stories State Library] Amazing photographs from a different perspective: [|Famous event photographs] Australian texts: [|Australian Folklore]

Open Culture free texts
700 free e-books: [|Free e-books] 700 free films: [|Free films] Free lectures: [|Foucault's lectures]

**Fabulous Link to a plethora of film clips and images! ** The Literacy Shed: [|Literacy Shed]

**Multimedia Texts ** Inanimate Alice: [|Inanimate Alice] Tales of London: [|Tales of London] [|We Tell Stories] [|The Dead Tower] [|Media Storm] Billy Collin's poetry: [|Animated poems]

**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cartoons **
[|Cartoons based on inspirational people]

**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rhetoric ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Severn Suzuki: [|The Girl Who Stopped the World] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Martin Luther King: [|I Have a Dream] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American Rhetoric: [|American Speeches] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nobel Prize acceptance speeches: [|Nobel Speeches]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Creative advertisements
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Creative ad awards]

**Films** //Fabulous site for short films that can be used to stimulate writing, etc: [|Short of the Week]// Animations [|Imgur animations] //The Lost Thing// - Shaun Tan media type="youtube" key="VudCPKtVMds" height="205" width="299" Australian Screen: Clips of Australian films, documentaries and televsion advertisements: [|Australian Screen] [|Short films] - excellent short films to inspire writing. Short Films: [|Short of the Week] //The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore// [] List of top documentary films, [|http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-top-100-films-for-action/] First and final frames of movies: [|First and final frames of films]

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 * Free Online Texts and Resources:** [|Open Culture]

Brilliant short films: [|Irish short films] Comics in Education: [|Comics in education] Suggested young adult films: [|Suggested films for schools] Mike Leigh's early short films: [|Short films] Sustainability short films: [|Nature is Speaking]