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This is a great collaborative brainstorming tool that will allow all students to contribute, not just those who are willing to put their voice out there. If you like post-it notes, you'll love it! -I'm using it as a brainstorming activity for my students to set up their class goals and "laws" for the class constitution in the first days of school. It's also private in that the students need to have the specific link in order to find the site. I would post that on blackboard.

A easy site to communicate quick bits of information and allowing others to add notes to share on the wall.

A site to check out and read some good ideas about using creativity in our classrooms.

This site is just a fun way to share information in a simple way.

This site is a great way to make or have your kids create an informational online poster. There is a education site for educators to utilize.

I'm sure most of you have seen this one, but it does not get old to me. It stimulates creativity in my own thinking as an administrator and teacher. I do not necessarily agree with everything he says - but it is intriguing nonetheless.

Screenr is the simplest screencast tool I've used. No downloads and no account needed. You literally hit "record" and go! Check it out!

A thought-provoking video challenging traditional teaching methods and classrooms in college and university settings.

This article really highlights some of the fight that is out there, and some of the problems that surround the idea of creating the 21st century classroom.

I don't normally read the USA Today, but I came across this article and I thought that it hit upon some important points that we need to remember when we deal with students and the idea of history and memory.

"Our tool helps you unblock your thinking by capturing the fragments, letting you stand back and see the structure that was there all the time, and helping you to build on it. Mind mapping is the best way to understand and visualize something. You don't even have to explain it to someone else - explaining things to yourself is a powerful way to learn and understand. Mindomo respects your time, with a carefully selected feature set, platform flexibility, quick setup, and a short learning curve."

"Creativity, once a trait avoided by employers, is now prized among employers who are trying to create the empowered, high-performance workforce needed for competitiveness in today's marketplace.Employees with these skills are in demand and are considered valuable human capital assets to companies," says Dr. Jacquelyn Robinson, a community workforce development specialist.

"A six-step process for teaching students to formulate their own questions can encourage them to take ownership of their learning, and deepen their understanding of a subject, write Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana, authors of the book, "Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions." The Question Formulation Technique can be used to introduce new material to students, gauge their understanding during a lesson or to help students set a new learning agenda at the end of a unit, the authors write. Harvard Education Letter (September/October 2011)"

What do students want?

This tool integrates 21st century learning themes. Students are able to use information, media, and technology skills with this website. Students are also able to practice life and career skills because many jobs today involve interaction over the internet.

Allows instructors to make their lessons accessible to students by having them register with a special code. Students have access to these lessons and can also interact with each other, picture a facebook/BlackBoard website.

Welcome to 21st Century Schools We specialize in professional staff development and curriculum design. Our goal is to assist educators in creating schools and classrooms that are truly 21st century. See our continually evolving essay, What is 21st Century Education?.

This tool can be used in a variety of ways to store, reference and share bookmarks. I have also heard really great comments from other teachers on how they use it a lot.

Delicious is the "old " style social bookmarking tool replaced by our friend here Diigo~ Diigo should be more powerful than Delicious. Interesting if you find somethings that Delicous does that Diigo does not.