AASL Best Web Sites for Teaching & Learning Top 25 Award 2009
Common Craft Videos - easy to understand training videos, covering web 2.0 and technologyt. Free for noncommercial purposes.
Learning Now (PBS Teachers)
"Using the New Bloom's Taxonomy to Design Meaningful Learning Assessments"
Ning in Education
Classroom 2.0 - Join Classroom 2.0 Ning, a social network for educators who are using or want to use Web 2.0 in their libraries and classrooms.
ThinkQuest
TappedIn
Web 2.0 is the Future of Education
What is Web 2.0? O'Reilly
e-Pals.com - partners with National Geographic to bild global awareness, critical thinking and project-based collaboration.Tthe Internet's largest global community of connected classrooms.
Exchange Connect - international social network administered by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and US Department of State, with a mission to communicate, collaborate and connect students from around the world.
TakingITGlobal - Inspire. Inform. Involve. - An online community, providing youth with inspiration to make a difference, a source of information on issues, opportunities to take action, and more.
Global SchoolNet Collaborative Center - engages teachers and students in meaningful project learning, exchanges with people around the world to develop literacy and communication skills, foster teamwork and collaboration, and create multi-cultural understanding.
Global Gateway - provides educators with partner schools for international colaboration with more than 20,000 schools.
Global Nomads Group - an international NGO that creates interactive educational programs for students about global issues. GNG’s educational programs include (1) four types of videoconferences — The PULSE, Currents, Innovations and Rapid Response — where students learn about and discuss subjects with their peers from around the world in live, facilitated sessions; and (2) videos and learning content on a variety of international issues relevant to teachers and students. All GNG programs are directly linked to school curricula, education standards and 21st century learning objectives, and are accompanied by lesson plans and training to teachers. Programs are broadcast during the school day and cover a range of topics in the curriculum, including civics, social and global studies, geography, world history, science, economics and politics.
Global Youth Action Network - Collaboration among youth and youth-serving organizations to share information, resources and solutions to promote greater youth engagement.
Global Youth Service Day - April 23-25, 2010
Millennium Deveopment Goals Youth Portal
One World Youth Project: Connecting Communities of Youth Action
Google Apps for Educators - complete list of apps
Google Apps: lesson plans
iGoogle
iGoogle tutorial
Google Docs
Google Docs Templates
100 Great Google Docs Tips for Students/Educators
Google Alerts
Google Groups
Google Calendar
Google Notebook
Google Notebook Tutorial
Google SketchUp
Google Geo (includes LitTrips)
Google Wave Demonstration Video
Google Earth
Noel Jenkin's Juicy Geography
Google Earth EDU - Google's Geo Education Site K-12
Google Lat Long Blog
Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor)
Let's Go Google Earth and GIS Resources
Google Earth Lessons
Google Earth and Discovery Education - Getting Started with Google Earth (pdf)
How Stuff Works - Google Earth
Google Earth Hacks - Mickey Mellen's collection of user content
Ogle Earth - Stefan Geens' look at virtual globes
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TeachersFirst: Blog Basics for the Classroom
A Blogger Portrait - Pew Internet & American Life
Edublog - created especially for educators, is a resource where teachers and librarians can create their own blogs with templates and help from other educators
Blogger
Wordpress
Landmarks Class Blogmeister
Bud the Teacher - Blogging Rules
ISB Blogging Guidelines (middle school blog)
TeachersFirst sample (doc)
Class Blogmeister sample (doc)
Academic Reading & Writing - 09/10 class blog
Mr. Byrne Teaches - Teacher blog 09/10
Write Blog - blogged writing traits
Digital Classroom
English Literature 12
Modern American Literature class: Secret Life of Bees
English teacher blog
Blogger Blog Search
Blogpulse
Google Blog Search
Technorati
Clusty Meta Blog Search
RSS in Plain English (youtube)
What is RSS? (Google video)
What is RSS? Wordpress Tutorials Video Course
Bloglines
Google Reader
see also TL June 2007 article on Wiki
wiki issues - keys to a safe and positive wiki
Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not
Wiki Wisdom: Lessons for Educators (pdf)
WikiSpaces for Educators
PBWiki for Educators
Wetpaint
Social Studies Class Wiki
Examples of Several Classroom Wikis
Tech Head - Digital Storytelling - Huge collection of links
DigiTales: the art of telling digital stories
Center for digital storytelling
Telling Tales With Technology
Tim Sheppard's Storytelling Resources: Articles - Stories in Education
Digital Storytelling links from W. Mass. Writing Project
KQED's Digital Story Initiative
Simply Box - "visual bookmarking". Free browser plugin that allows users to capture parts of web pages.
MindMeister - Online Mind Mapping
Zoho - Zoho offers an all-in-one online collaborative package; it provides online tools from mail and presentations to notebooks and wikis, with many tools in between.
primaryAccess - a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.
Skype - Skype is a basic and easy-to-use service that offers free voice, video calls, conference calls, instant messaging and group instant messaging. Download the software; connect to the Internet and you're good to go.
Moodle - Course Management Software. Free Open Source
Scitable -Focused on Genetics, a collaborative learning space for science.
Wordle - A "Wordle" enables you to create a word "cloud," visually depicting the relationship between words based on their frequency of use
Thirty-eight interesting ways to use Wordle in the classroom
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del.icio.us - This is a free service where thousands of people keep their web favorites, enabling you to view and save the bookmarks to your own account. For more information on Delicious, here is a video.
Diigo - Web highlighter and sticky notes, social bookmarking and annotation, social information network.
Social Bookmarking in Plain English (YouTube)
Social Bookmarking: Making the Web Work for You (YouTube)
7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking (pdf)
ScreenToaster - nothing to download, free, easy to use.
Screencast-O-Matic - another free easy to use site, no download required
screener - instant screencasts for twitter
ScreenJelly - 3 min limit, no download
SlideShare: education- largest presentation-sharing community online: upload your presentations, find presentations of interest, tag, download, embed, or just be inspired.
SlideShare: Best Presentations 2009
flicker - photo sharing
Motionbox - video sharing and storage
VoiceThread - allows users to share images, documents, and videos with added narration by the authors and others
Glogster(edu)
jphotosynth - allows you to take a bunch of photos of the same scene or object and automagically stitch them all together into one big interactive 3D viewing experience that you can share with anyone on the web.
Picasa - software download from Google that helps you organize, edit, and share your photos
Animoto - educators and students can create videos that contain photos, graphics, music, text and more
Using video clips with Animoto - a howto
Masher - Masher lets you easily create a video by mixing together video clips, music tracks, and photos all for FREE!
Tumbler - lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos.
OurStory - Our Story permits users to develop and save collaborative timelines that can be personalized with annotations, photos, and videos. Stories (timelines) can be printed in book format, archived on DVD, or even sent as postcards.
shutterbug - all things photography
"Podcasting 101 for K-12 Librarians" - from Computers in Libraries
Education Podcast Network (EPN) - an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.
An Introduction to Podcasts
GarageBand
Support - Working with Podcasts
Gcast - free podcasting
Audacity - free, open source software for recording and editing sounds
Goodreads - A social network for book lovers! Members can keep track of the books they have read, make recommendations to others, vote on book lists that are posted, see what their friends are reading and recommending, and form book groups.
Ning - Create your own social network for your classroom, your school group or your library. Share your ideas, pictures, and plans. Choose the features, a forum, a blog, members' pages, RSS feeds - whatever you would like to share and collaborate and control the membership.
Digg
Twitter - What are you doing?
twazzup - twitter search engine
Facebook
RezEd - RezED is the hub for learning about virtual worlds, providing practitioners with access to the highest quality resources and research in the field.
Second Life - Create an avatar and join other educators in Second Life to explore virtual reality, a world where you, the user, can participate in professional development, meet colleagues to explore and discover and create new understandings about learning in virtual worlds.
Free Kid-Friendly Avatar Creators (Philly Teacher)
Avatar Makers (Copyright Friendly) - long list of sites
Speechble - photo captioning
Big Huge Labs - allows you to take a current photo library to create interesting documents and presentations, and fun stuff like puzzles, pop art posters, CD covers, magazine covers, and motivational posters.
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