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Online learning is sweeping across America. In the year 2000, roughly 45,000 K-12 students took an online course. In 2009, more than 3 million K-12 students did. What was originally a distancelearning phenomenon no longer is. Most of the growth is occurring in blended-learning environments, in which students learn online in an adult-supervised environment at least part of the time. As this happens, online learning has the potential to transform America's education system by serving as the backbone of a system that offers more personalized learning approaches for all students.

We believe that coming together to tinker with ideas, draw, work on problems and create stories with others is a really fun and vital component of learning. When we get together with others in an open-ended, creative environment, we explore new ideas, new ways of thinking and problem-solving, naturally. That's why we created Scoot & Doodle: live, face-to-face collaboration studios where friends and classmates easily get creative together.

History Tours is a collaborative website that gives teachers access to pre-made Google Earth tours on various topics in American and World history. These tours provide an excellent backdrop for visual learning. They allow students to view people and places of historical importance while the teacher presents essential background knowledge.

"With WeVideo, you simply upload your video clips and photos, create your storylines, and edit them in the cloud. Oh, that "cloud thing", it means the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product. For you that means there's no software to download. All video story creation takes place in the browser on your smartphone, tablet, or computer."

Wetoku is a web service or web 2.0 tool out of Korea that does one thing very well…it provides a simple platform for interviewing someone via the Internet. Collaborating globally is a must for our students and as result interviewing can be a challenge. Wetoku makes doing an interview as easy as filling out some basic information, creating an interview session and then sending the creative interview session's URL to the interviewee.