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Defines PBL and provides research, project guides, resources, and examples. 

Mark Moran's "Teaching Ten Steps to Better Web Research" info from his TSETC session. 

Students have more information at their fingertips than ever before, yet the challenge remains for them to find, evaluate, and apply the information they discover in the classroom and beyond.Applying critical thinking skills through web research can help students: Improve search skills.Evaluate the information they find.Incorporate them in their work.Explore the ready-to-use curriculum below, including detailed lesson plans, student worksheets, and class demonstration

Karen Blumberg's Notes from TSETC. She covers sessions on building a PLN, using web 2.0 tools, researching on the web, teaching with games, using an iPad, using social media, going global, and using digital storytelling. 

Google has not only taken over the world, but they are positioned to take over many of the classrooms! There are many Google resources and applications that can be utilized in the classroom. Below you will find them organized into the following categories: Applications (downloads); Collaboration; Research Resources and Other Resources.

Use site to begin research on Habits of Mind, but be careful of sources.

Ok the article is a little old but it has a great point of view of trying to teach students about a google search and how to search effectively.

A wiki that sorts tools by what you want to do or create.

Excellent resource! Provides explanations on how to do almost anything you could possibly want to do in your classroom. Go to it, bookmark it, use it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for this Heather.

thanks so much for sharing this! It will be incredibly useful for students in African Studies as well as our Comparative World Studies classes where we study differnet cultures and the students research different aspects of culture.

If you ever do a project that uses research and data gathering this is great. Watch the tutorial to see all the capabilities.