Thanks for visiting our digital newsletter. In this issue, Tina Hurlbert offers a book review for Smuggling Writing: Strategies that Get Students to Write Every Day in Every Content Area, Grades 3-12 by Wood, Taylor, and Stover recently published by Corwin. Both  Megan Schonhar (Featured Article #1) and Lindsay Yearta (Featured Article #2) explore using infographics to integrate reading, research, writing, and design in the classroom. Infographics merge visual and written text to represent information including data. Schonhar shares how she used Easel.ly with her ninth graders to communicate important ideas of social justice. Yearta discusses the use of Smore to create digital mind maps as a way to share content knowledge in a seventh grade social studies unit about the Cold War.

If you are interested in writing for the newsletter, we continue to seek authors to a manuscript for the next issue to be published in the fall of 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, called the 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 (addresses below) either of the co-editors of the newsletter with any questions regarding the journal. We look forward to reading your manuscripts.

Mike Putman: sputman@uncc.edu

Katie Stover: katie.stover@furman.edu

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.