An online brainstorming tool, a secure social learning network for teachers and students, and a fun way to create interactive timelines are among the Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning identified by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) during the American Library Association's (ALA) annual conference in New Orleans. The list honors the top Internet sites for enhancing learning and curriculum development for school librarians and their teacher collaborators-and were named because they foster innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration The list is considered the "best of the best" by AASL and is comprised of free, user-friendly sites that encourage a community of learners to explore and discover. They also provide a foundation to support AASL's Standards for the 21^st-Century Learner. The sites offer tools and resources in content collaboration, content resources with lesson plans, curriculum sharing, digital storytelling, managing and organizing, and social networking and communication. Each Web site is linked to one or more of the four strands of the Standards for the 21^st-Century Learner: skills, dispositions in action, responsibilities, and self-assessment strategies. Updated annually for the last three years, the Top 25 Websites is based on feedback and nominations from AASL members. School librarians can nominate their most used Web sites. The websites honored include: Aviary is a photo editing site. CK-2 Flexbooks distributes high-quality educational content using an open-content, web-based collaborative model. Conduit allows users to create free toolbars for their site. Digital Vaults offers more than 1,200 documents from the National Archives. Dipity is a fun way to create an interactive, visually engaging timeline in minutes. Edistorm is an online brainstorming tool. Edmodo is a secure social learning network for teachers and students. Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception. Geocube offers the world of geography at your fingertips. iCyte lets users save web pages and PDFs exactly as you remember them. i-Earn (International Education and Resource Network) is a nonprofit organization made up of more than 30,000 schools and youth organizations in more than 130 countries. It empowers teachers and young people use the Internet and other new communications technology. i-nigma QR codes provides advanced imaging technologies, including barcode reading, text recognition, document scanning, and motion detection solutions. Kerpoof offers a multimedia software used by kids worldwide to create original artwork, animated movies, stories, greeting cards, and more. Khan Academy hopes to improve education by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. Lingt Language offers online tools to help foreign language teachers and students get the most out of language education. Microsoft Tag Codes scans tags from your mobile phone for instant access to information, websites, videos, reviews, and more. Myths and Legends is a site for students, teachers, and all those who enjoy stories and storytelling. Nota is a way to mash your ideas and media together with friends in a dynamic whiteboard wiki. Using photos, videos, and other web content you can instantly brainstorm, create presentations, scrapbooks, and enjoy an interactive chat with more than 50 friends PicLits is a site that matches images with carefully selected keywords to inspire creative writing. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture. SpicyNodes is a way to visualize online information that mimics that way people look for things in the real world. Bits of information-such as text, links, photos, and other media -are placed into "nodes," which are then linked together in an appealing interface that invites exploration. SpicyNodes can be used for everything from mind maps and content portals to organizational charts and lesson plans Symbaloo is a personal learning environment for teachers to visually organize and share the best of the web with students. Tagxedo turns words-famous speeches, news articles, slogans, themes, even letters-into visual word clouds, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. Yolink Education allows users to export findings to your choice of social networks, collaboration, or document generation tools. You Are What You Read is an online book community that lets users connect with readers around the world through the books. Zooburst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his own 3D pop-up books

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