Thanks for visiting our third installment of our digital newsletter. In this issue, Kristin Webber describes Neared, a multi-platiform mobile presentation tool that can be used in the development of engaging, authentic lessons. Building on the use of digital tools in the classroom, Aileen Hower describes how cartoon/illustration creators can be used to engage students on the autism spectrum with expression of their understandings of information. We’re publishing a little early, but stay tuned as the newsletter will be updated in the coming weeks with a new installment from Vicky Zygouris-Coe, one of the co-editors of Literacy Research & Instruction.

If you are interested in writing for the newsletter, we continue to seek authors to write for Issue 2, to be published in March, 2016. We will consider a variety of submissions, but would prefer those that describe practical applications of technology within literacy instruction. We would also like to draw your attention to a forthcoming journal that we are co-editing with Dr. Drew Polly: Journal of Technology-Enhanced Learning (https://journals.uncc.edu/index.php/JTEL/index). We are currently seeking submissions for the inaugural volume, which will be published in Fall 2016/Spring 2017. Please email either of the co-editors of the newsletter with any questions regarding the journal. We look forward to reading your manuscripts.