1. Standards and Outcomes
- NETS Standards: National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers, from ISTE. Just released in June 2007. This site is packed with pdf files covering everything from assessing teacher skills for differentiated training to aligning standards from k-12. It is the authority for best practices in 21st century learning.
2. Information Literacy: Locating, Evaluating, and Managing Information in the Digital Age
- Website Evaluation Guide (Cornell U.): Quick guidance with 5 traits for website evaluation: "AAOCC" - Accuracy, Authority, Objectivity, Currency, Coverage.
- Blog Evaluation Guide: Blogs are sources of information on the internet too. Many top scholars and other experts and world leaders blog. But so do many whackos. How do you evaluate blogs? This guide helps. By Joyce Valenza.
- NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English, USA) Documents:
3. Responsible Use, Permission to Publish (Parent Letter), Acceptable Use, Privacy Policies
- Doug Noon's forms from his elementary class in Alaska
- Mark Ahlness' forms from his grade 3 in Washington State
4. Guides to Teaching with Wikis, Blogs, RSS, and More
Thanks to Wes Fryer for this - from the ACOT 10 Year Report.
Blogs:
RSS Readers:
Wikis:
- A History Teacher: Dan McDowell's website is a goldmine of ideas and resources for incorporating wikis into the history and social studies classroom - but they can be adapted easily to all subjects!
- Wikis Ideas for the Classroom: guide with suggestions for all subject areas and grade levels - great resource.
5. Online Textbooks, Encyclopedias, Primary Sources
History / Social Studies:
- Prof. Paul Halsall's Internet History Sourcebook Project: vast collection of primary sources from around the world, across the centuries
- The History Guide: Prof. Stephen Kreis' history lectures - outstanding collection
- Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture: virtual museum - great for US history and American Literature classes (new: September 2007)
- Workplace Skills for the Global Economy of the 21st Century: The World is Flat author/NYTimes foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman interviewed on YaleGlobal
The Educated Blogger: Using Weblogs to Promote Literacy in the Classroom - David Huffaker, Georgetown Univ., AACE Journal, 13(2), 91-98. 2005.
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