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ISTE Learning is an anytime, anywhere online community for professional development where educators can sample free concepts, buy cool resources and exchange creative ideas. This space provides relevant learning experiences in multiple formats to strengthen the teaching experience and grow digital literacy.

"What Is ISTE Learning? ISTE Learning is an anytime, anywhere online community for professional development where educators can sample free concepts, buy cool resources and exchange creative ideas. This space provides relevant learning experiences in multiple formats to strengthen the teaching experience and grow digital literacy. ISTE Learning's Mission The mission of ISTE Learning is to provide robust leadership, learning and teaching opportunities that are grounded in the NETS to support educators in effectively implementing technology into their learning environments."

Slideshow presentation by Chris O'Neal (ISTE) and Rob Bayuk (Microsoft). Microsoft and ISTE have joined forces to put together a series of web literacy lessons, activities, and support resources to help students develop their critical thinking skills when searching the web. You can find the teacher resources here: http://www.microsoft.com/education/teachers/guides/critical_thinking.aspx

Kathy Schrock's presentation at ISTE. This presentation provides an in-depth overview of the micro-blogging tool, Twitter. The links to the tips, tricks, tools, research, and other items included in the presentation are provided.

Slideshare of Chris Lehmann's presentation at ISTE

"Join Howard Rheingold and other noted educators in creating a world-class resource for teaching critical thinking and Internet literacies."

Machinima, video created using 3D virtual environments, was originally developed by gamers but is emerging as a promising classroom tool for developing the NETS.

Slideshare of presentation by Julie Lindsay and Vickie Davis.

List of Special Interest Group (SIG) wikis.

Seven Steps to Flatten Your Classroom - by Julie Lindsay & Vickie Davis

Best practices for Internet literacy and critical thinking with students. David Warlick's notes on Howard Rheingold's session. Also visit Howard Rheingold's Critical Thinking wiki to view his video on "Crap Detection" and digital literacies at http://critical-thinking.iste.wikispaces.net/

Utilize MyEZbooks to create an online yearbook. Works on Mac & PC platforms. Tutorials can be found here: http://www.ezbook.net/faqs.html

Slideshare presentation from Helen Barrett's session on eportfolios.

"Learning Tools Smackdown ~ Teacher-librarian and technology educator practitioners will share their ideas relating to effective practice in use of 2.0 tools to deliver the mission that resonates well with ISTE's NETS*S."