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The primary sources links below can really hit that Information column in the Hallmarks of 21st Century Learning we have linked on the Monday page. You can easily find Edison's original drawings of the telephone, political cartoons that tell great stories and of course a scan of the original Gettysburg Address... These can be great free tools for your 21st Century classroom for the Information component:
 * Primary Sources 2.0** -Dan Maas

[|Library of Congress]

[|American Memory] Teaching with Primary Sources ColoradoTPC Colorado Wiki

  Laura and I went to a great session about Twitter. Bud the teacher showed us some great ways to use Twitter. It can be slow at times but neat. You can find tweets based on the Mars Rover! It can be a neat educational resource. You can also chat with other educators and share sites that you find helpful. Bud showed some really neat ways to work with other teachers all across the world. The one site that I think that I will use the most is Google docs. and Google presentation. Here you can place a document that others can see and then you can blog about the doc. This may be a really neat to use in the classroom. Very neat!! We also looked at Chatterous which is another great way to communicate. This might be something that we can do in lps to share what we are doing with tech in our classrooms. ~Carrie S (Sandburg) 1214340700~To add to Dan Maas' thought you can check out the National Archives digital vaults where you can find pictures and information and make posters and movies using the pictures. It is way cool!! [|Digital Vaults]

I went in a bit of a different direction--I attended the American Libraries Association's session on 21st Century Learner's standards. It was intreresting in that it was LEARNER standards, not content standards. Pretty interesting idea in that it would permeate all content areas, and put equal emphasis on how we learn as much as what we learn. I'm having wireless problems (as we all are) so I'll keep it brief. I encourage you to read more at:

http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/learningstandards/standards.cfm One of the interesting pieces was that they advocated for self-reflection, or self-assessment towards learner standards. Also, as they are learner standards, they apply equally to adult learners as well as students. Mike

We have begun exploring Chatterous which we think would be a great chatting site for our students due to the fact that the students do not need an individual email address to log on, just a user name and a password. Think about the great chats that they can have! I think it would be a great way for them to chat about things such as literature circles, social studies, science, solving math problems and so on. It would be a great way for them to demonstrate their learning. The web site it [|https://www.chatterous.com.] - Laura M. - Carl Sandburg Elem.