AASL Best Websites for Teaching and Learning

I love lists. So last week when the American Association of School Librarians announced their 25 best sites for teaching and learning, I couldn’t wait to click over to it. And, while many of the sites are familiar, there were a couple I hadn’t used yet and a couple I hadn’t even heard of. For your browsing pleasure, here they are (organized by the AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner):

Top 25 Web sites for Teaching and Learning

The “Top 25″ Web sites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.

Organizing and Managing

• Diigo 
• Google Reader 
• Simply Box 

Content Collaboration 

• Mindmeister 
• Polleverywhere 
• Wikispaces 
• Zoho 

Curriculum Sharing  

• Curriki 
• Partnership for 21st Century Skills 
• Primary Access 
• SOS for Information Literacy 

Media Sharing  

• Animoto 
• Our Story 
• Teacher Tube 
• VoiceThread 
• Wordle  

Virtual Environments 

• RezED 
• Second Life 

Social Networking and Communication  

• Classroom 2.0 
• Edublogs 
• Facebook 
• Good Reads 
• Ning 
• Skype 
• Twitter 

So, how many do you know from the list? How many have you used? With kids?

Coming soon: Me, trying out some of these and brainstorming about how my students can use them. Right here on this blog. (I know–the SUSPENSE. Don’t miss it! )

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 at 9:26 am by W.H. Beck and is filed under cool tools, in the library, library 2.0, links to look at. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.