Florida Educational Technology Clearinghouse has created another useful service, Lit2Go
This is one more step towards emphasizing the audio/performance aspect of literature where students listen to or perform literature.
You and your students can download Mp3 file from their free online collection of literary passages. You and your students can search this collection by author, title, keywords, or reading level. Each passage has an abstract, citation, playing time, and word count. You can also download PDF files of the passages, something that would be useful to provide students with material for writing papers about particular authors, topics, themes, or literary periods.
The fact that these passages can be downloaded to iTunes means that students can listen to these passages on their iPod/Mp3 players. They could also incorporate clips of these files (under fair-use) into podcasts about certain texts, authors, topics, or themes using podcasting editing programs like Audacity or Garageband.
