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Why wordle? Ideas for using wordle in the classroom.

Thanks @glovely

you need to use elluminate to participate in classroom 2.0's weekly activities & sessions. this site is a how-to for new users.

Useful guide for history educators.

I agree with this list 100 %

A list of over 100 ways to use social media for eLearning.

list of communication tools for the well-connected teacher.

wow! if you can't find it here, they haven't invented it yet! nicely compacted list of tools geared towards learning

blog that lists all the current & upcoming contests for students

This blog shares contests to use and share with your classroom.

It is great to engage students with contests. I've added this to my rss reader.

Great resources for the web and 21st century literacy!

good resource site for literacy strategies and resources.  Warning: not all links work.

"Over the past several years, History Matters has organized twenty-five online dialogues with leading historians and teachers about the the teaching of major topics in U.S. history--from early settlement to the Vietnam War. Those discussions are archived here and contain many useful teaching suggestions"

Some useful tips on how to teach American history by seasoned professionals.

A compelling analysis of how 'critical thinking' models are misused in the history classroom.

just got this from @freetechforteachers. across the curriculum.

Critics of wikis as research sources often point to the potential for students to stumble
across inaccurate content as a fatal flaw that make wikis almost worthless. "How can we
promote wikis in our classrooms," the argument goes, "if you can't trust what's posted
there? I don't want my students exposed to learning tools that are just plain wrong!"

Teachers using wikis successfully in their classrooms, however, embrace inaccurate content posted on classroom wikis as a teachable moment because they know that succeeding as consumers of information in the 21st Century requires students to develop a healthy skepticism of any content posted online. In a world where content is constantly changing and publishing is easy for anyone, researchers simply cannot assume that
digital sources-wikis, blogs, websites, online videos-are accurate and up-to-date.

Wikis give teachers built in opportunities to teach lessons about the reliability of online content to students. Errors-which are inevitable in student projects-can be spotlighted and corrected, and students can be introduced to strategies for identifying content worth trusting.

The Galileo Project is a source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Our aim is to provide hypertextual information about Galileo and the science of his time to viewers of all ages and levels of expertise. What you read and see here is a beginning -- we will continue to add and update information as it becomes available. We solicit contributions from our colleagues in the history of science and comments on how we can improve the project from everyone, particularly suggestions on how to make this tool more useful in primary and secondary education.