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"This Classroom Learning 2.0 blog has been set-up as part of the CSLA School Library Learning 2.0 program to encourage all of us to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today."

This is a really organized blog set up for learning about 2.0. Please share with anyone you think might be interested.

Welcome to Historical Thinking Matters, a website focused on key topics in U.S. history, that is designed to teach students how to critically read primary sources and how to critique and construct historical narratives.

Looks like an interesting site. There are student investigations as well as teacher materials and strategies.

With Google Earth, you can create awesome tours, taking viewers on a virtual trip from place to place. You can enhance your tours with narration, images, videos, text, and other types of information. The tours you create can even be embedded into a website.

How to get started using google earth.

Collection of Social Studies resources available on the Web.

Moderately challenging United States map review. Students must drag states to their correct location (not labeled); judged both on accuracy and time.

seeks to educate children in grades four through six - tweens, in the parlance of marketing - about how advertising works so they can make better, more informed choices when they shop or when they ask parents to shop on their behalf.

GrowingWithGoogle - wonderful site for those who need support with google . Lots of tutorial videos about a variety of Google tools.

Check out this terrific wikispace on google. Lots of tutorials on various google tools.

many educators are using technology to engage students in project-based learning exercises that build 21st-century skills and motivate students with practical and hands-on-activities. The nonprofit Buck Institute for Education and Boise State University have put together resources to help educators plan, design, and implement such leassons. Guides and planning tools are available, as are a handful of examples of project-based teaching and learning strategies that have been successful in the classroom.

Edit Grip allows users to collaborate via the web on a spreadsheet. Works very much like Excel.

US Search and Rescue Task Force sponsors site on predicting weather. It includes information about What is the Weather?, Weather tools, Cloud types, Weather types.

Interactive from National Geographic - students create their own tornadoes based on appropriate conditions for a tornado. Also includes case study activities.

This is an alphabetical listing of links to sites A-Z on just about any topic you may be interested in.

Scitable is a free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world's leading publisher of science.

"Scitable is a free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world's leading publisher of science. Scitable currently concentrates on genetics and cell biology , which include the topics of evolution, gene expression, and the rich complexity of cellular processes shared by living organisms. Scitable also offers resources for the budding scientist, with advice about effective science communication and career paths ."

The World's largest collection of Holocaust documents is going digital: Israel's Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, is teaming up with Google to make its photographs and documents interactive and searchable on the internet. This collection will include 130,000 photos that now can be searched directly from goodle. In the future the collection will expand to other parts of the memorial's vast archives and will include survivor testimonies.

Posterous sites are the simple way to send your message where you need it. Posterous groups are great for sharing privately via email, mobile, or the web. Discuss, collaborate, or just keep everyone on the same page, whether it's colleagues, a club, team, group of friends, or family

Protagonize is a community that writes collaborative interactive fiction. One person starts the story, and others post chapters to the story that lead it in different direction. In the end it becomes an evolving story in which everyone can participate.

With a view of travel as an educational experience like no other, the project makes use of digital media to promote an understanding of different culture and customs to students worldwide. The site hosts virtual field trips to England, Jordan, and South Africa that include more than 160 fort films that correspond to the destinations. Each video explains more about the region's food, music, culture, and language. Since 2003, project explorer has counted more than a million visitors to the site from more than 40 different countries. Recently, it won a Parents' Choice Award for "Outstanding Web Programming." The site's developers qre not working to add a fourth field trip--this one to Malaysia--the Project Explorer has lesson for upper elementary, middle and high school. They plan to offer lesson specifically designed for the early grades.

Wolfram/Alpha is to be the first web-based tool that can find answers to all systematic knowledge in the world. For educators, this "computational iknowledge engine" can find objective and fact-based answers for a variety of subject areas. Type in "Newton's Law," for example, and the formula for force is explained. Enter in an equation for a line, and the site plots the line on a graph. Ask "What is the GDP of the United States and Canada?" and a chart depicts a side-byside comparison of the nations' economic data.

This site contains tons of links to free teacher resources. The home page currently has 6 categories which users can clink on and then go deeper into a specific area. The categories are chatboards which can be by grade, subject and state; classified ads which are free teacher classified ads, classroom projects with hundreds of project ideas, lesson plans, teacher jobs, teacher mailings for teachers to subscribe to for free.

TeAchnology is a site that has tons of resources for teachers. There are worksheets, lesson plans, rubrics, teacher resources, printables, tools, tips and there is a membership option. Some of the materials are available free as samples but if you want access to all of them I believe it is 29.99 a year.