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Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They're often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction. Using these ideas, your students can collaboratively create classroom valuables.

Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They're often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction. Using these ideas, your students can collaboratively create classroom valuables.

Webspiration is online mindmapping from the creators of Inspiration. Many of the same features as the for-purchase Inspiration and completely free. Includes plenty of templates and you can download mindmap as Inspiration or Word file. Key feature is collaborative editing; simply invite a colleague/student via email and you can collaborative form anywhere with an Internet connection. You can post mindmap on a web page, too.

Technology Mapping With today's technology it has become easy to integrate the concepts of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) as part of learning activities. Integrating GIS technologies to add exciting and interactive spatial elements into a variety of activities. Using tools such as Google Maps, librarians, teachers, and students can easily create interactive digital maps that relate spatially to books, stories, and other readings. Students can use Web 2.0 tools, such as EditGrid, to collaborate online in the development of interactive maps, which then can be used to reduce the transactional distance that distance learning students may feel when taking courses online.

Global collaboration projection between U.S. and Middle East classrooms centering on Middle East conflict and peace initiatives

Recommendation: Integrate digital and media literacy as critical elements of education at all levels through collaboration among federal, state, and local education officials.

Recommendation: Integrate digital and media literacy as critical elements of education at all levels through collaboration among federal, state, and local education officials.

A compilation of free Educational Video Clips/Mini Movies on multiple topics. A collaboration between Don Donn and Philip Martin.

In collaboration with several content area organizations, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills developed a series of ICT Literacy Maps illustrating the intersection between Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy and core academic subjects including English, mathematics, science and social studies (civics/government, geography, economics, history). The maps enable educators to gain concrete examples of how ICT Literacy can be integrated into core subjects, while making the teaching and learning of core subjects more relevant to the demands of the 21st century.

TeachGlobalEd.net is the product of ongoing collaboration of Ohio State University's Social Studies and Global Education program with OSU's African Studies Center, East Asian Studies Center, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Middle East Studies Center, the Slavic and Eastern European Studies Center and Indiana University's Center for the Study of Global Change. The Centers have approved all resources offered here for K-12 teachers.

Students Can Get Work Done in Groups For project learning to be most effective, students must understand how to work together.

An extensive list of "cool" web tools for education. Categories include: Presentation Tools Collaborative Tools Research Tools Video Tools Slideshow Tools Audio Tools Image Tools Drawing Tools Writing Tools Music Tools Organising Tools Converting Tools Mapping Tools Quiz and Poll Tools Graphing Tools Creativity Tools Widgets File Storage & Web Pages Teacher Resources

These free, Web-based "Top 25" sites selected by the Association of School Librarians are chosen for their innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are user friendly and community minded.

A great argument visualization tool for students and teachers alike.

A place where teachers can share lesson plans integrating social tech into teaching and learning.

The History Engine is an educational tool that gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work-researching, writing, and publishing-of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or "episodes" that paints a wide-ranging portrait of life in the United States throughout its history and that is available to scholars, teachers, and the general public in our online database.