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12 Useful Ways to use cell phones in the classroom (M. Broach, posted 1/18/12) [|http://12most.com/2011/12/28/12-ways-kids-learn-cell-phones/]

Marylu shared this site with me. You'll find an outstanding collection of resources for teachers and students in every discipline. Seriously....a plethora of all kinds of information. Check it out...(L. Yocum, posted 1/26/12) []

http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/ "Educational Origami is a [|blog] and a wiki, about 21st Century Teaching and Learning. This wiki is not just about the integration of technology into the classroom, though this is certainly a critical area, it is about shifting our educational paradigm." A cursory look provided me with several excellent rubrics to use for evaluating a skyping assignment, blogging & blog commenting. There's also an interesting series of handouts on Bloom's Taxonomy with correlating assignments to use. Lots of potential here.....

Students can create a fake "facebook wall" for class (i.e. I had a student make one for the Civil Rights movement) - [|www.thewallmachine.com] Here's the sample student one: []

Another tool useful for making timelines, [|www.timetoast.com] (submitted by M. Broach 4/23/12)