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This is a easy way to group friends so that you can have online chats with them. I would use this to group parents or teachers so that we could communicate throughout the week.

The main page for the Flat Classroom Project wikis. Created by Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay, Flat Classroom is a wiki that allows students to participate in collaborative, global "flattening" projects through online communication, use of web 2.0 tools, and Thomas Friedman's mentality that "the world is flat."

A Q & A community to help you find answers and share knowledge.

Mr. Rothamel (Peet JH) homepage for US History.

This is the website of a national organization that advocates for 21st century readiness for every student. The organization promotes the framework for 21st century learning, which includes 3rs & 4cs (Critical thinking and problem solving, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity and innovation)

An overview of web 2.0 in the classroom. This article shares examples of various educators who have used web 2.0 as a way to engage their students. The examples include both instances of success and failure. This is valuable for educators who are unsure whether or not to implement web 2.0 tools, such as blogs, into their curriculum. It can be used as a preventative measure or as a guide for instructors attempting to explore web 2.0.

This is a popular blogging service that teachers can use to share educational information. I would use this blogging service to share my thoughts and ideas on teaching, and also for learning other peoples thoughts and ideas on teaching.

A site funded by an educational endowment from Verizon, this website has some good professional development articles about how to adapt news into lessonplans, tips on creative lessons and twenty-first century skills, and a database of lesson plans searchable by subject ans age.

I'd never heard of this site before, thanks for sharing! One thing I found to be pretty neat, is the community discussions forum. Many controversial topics are being debated, such as: "Should schools continue to teach cursive writing?" It is important for teachers to keep their students' engaged and interested in their learning, but it is equally important for teachers to stay engaged.

Thank you for sharing this site. I went through some of the different lesson plans and I am excited to be able to use them sometime. I wish I would have known about this resource when I was trying to make lessons for my level twos. It had so many different ideas for lessons. I looked at one about the Gettysburg Address and it was a great and thought provoking lesson.