21st+Century+Resources+and+Tools

=Wall Wisher =

**My Wall Wisher****[| http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/nbBMSvDjwV]**
Wall wisher could be used to create a collaborative brainstorming session when trying to narrow down research topics.

=Word Sift =

- A site that allows you to analyze vocabulary visually : []
Word Sift gives English teachers the opportunity to visually pick out words that will appear frequently in a short story before actually teaching it. As a result, the teacher is able to highly customize the unit's vocabulary list.

=Delicious Social Bookmarking =

- A site that allows you to bookmark any page anywhere @http://www.delicious.com/lflahive/?page=1
Delicious Social Bookmarking makes it easy to remember all those sites teachers use to prepare and execute lesson plans. I've used it to bookmark videos, tag biographical pages on authors and I've even used it as a place to share pages with other students.

=Slide Share =

- A site that allows easy access to slide show assembly http://www.slideshare.net
==== Slide Share provides teachers with a pool of Powerpoint and Smart Board presentations that anyone can access or upload their own. For example, in the English classroom I can download "Five Fatal Mistakes in English Usage" and present it to my students prior to a rough draft due date. ====

=Today's Meet = ===** - Gives people an opportunity to ask questions during a lecture [|http://todaysmeet.com]**=== Today's Meet gives students who don't normally speak-up an opportunity to do just that in this "back channel" format. Teachers can access the comments for as long as they make that "Meet" active. It's also highly effective for lecture-format district meetings when people have questions that are otherwise left unanswered.

=Skype =

[[image:skype.jpg width="238" height="224" align="right"]]- People can connect anywhere ranging from the room next door to a friend on another continent. @http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/home
=== - 10 ways to use Skype in your classroom: This website allows an easy access hot spot to get ideas on how to incorporate Skype into your classroom. @http://blog.learningtoday.com/blog/bid/41726/10-Ways-to-Use-Skype-in-the-Classroom===

This website allows an easy access hot spot to get ideas on how to incorporate Skype into your classroom: @http://www.teachingdegree.org/2009/06/30/50-awesome-ways-to-use-skype-in-the-classroom/
=== - Cool cat teacher blog: This is blog spot that is updated by the author that details what was and wasn't successful Skype usage in her classroom: @http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/10/using-skype-in-classroom-or-just.html ===

=Tiny URL =

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===[|http://tinyurl.com] - Is your URL too big, long and cumbersome? Here's an easy way to shorten long URLs to make websites, blogs, etc. easier to access for students and colleagues. ===

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=21st Century Skills = === - __**Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction: The International Education Council web page**__ provides a different perspective when it comes to rethinking our current curriculum. With educational reform has also come a tremendous amount of stress placed on the shoulders of faculty and administration alike to start reworking the system from the ground-up. This website gives a different perspective on what should be to focus of public schooling. It at least gives a place to start when there seems to be no solutions: @http://dpi.wi.gov/cal/iecouncil.html ===