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Tools For Communication- In this post I highlight class websites, blogs, RSS readers, and Drop.Io for enhancing communication in and out of the classroom. Tools For Collaborating With Students- Here I discuss Google Docs, wikis, Edmodo and Social Bookmarking as ways to promote collaboration with and among students. Tools For Collaborating With Professionals- Learn about how Twitter, Ning, Skype and Google Wave can all be used to connect with and learn from other educators. Tools To Create- See how easy it is to create a multimedia-rich classroom with Animoto, podcasts and Voicethread.

"50 web tools to help teachers with lesson planning, research and productivity! " Many new to me...Time to explore!

findingDulcinea's Guide teaches you how to find anything you are looking for on the Web, and will direct you to more Web sites to help you in any search. It will make you a smarter searcher, whatever you are looking for.

We can no longer wait to begin integrating the latest and most effective Web 2.0 Applications into our daily instructional repertoire. The time is now! We can choose to either engage our students in more interactive, collaborative enriched environments or

"Young people also need guidance and adult assistance to learn how to safely navigate the virtual environments of the 21st Century. Schools must be proactive, rather than merely defensive, in helping students acquire the skills of digital citizenship needed today and in the future. Simply banning read/write web tools on school networks is an inadequate response: Educators must strive to learn alongside students and parents how these technologies can be safely and powerfully used to communicate and collaborate."

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web 2.0 tools and Bloom's Taxonomy good to use with teachers new version added 11/2009

the List of Essential Tools For The Connected Teacher.\n\nOf course these are not all the tools teachers need. Nor are the tools in each category the only tools perfect for that category. They are just a jumping off point. A way to get started.\n\nSo for the next 4 Fridays I will be posting a different category of connectedness and several tools.

atomic learning - some free, some not

introduction and assignment

using free web2.0 tools (ESL)

Using critical thinking and analysis skills, the student then writes an article on the event, citing their Web sources.

Collaboration tools

Search for copies of your page on the web.