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Meet with other teachers and exchange ideas and information. It’s all free. Lessons, activities, movies, podcasts, and special collections are all offered for educators to use in their classrooms.

Tip: Check out the podcast collections.

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There are too many things offered at this site to cover here. You will just have to check it out for yourself. Merlot stands for Multimedia Educational Research for Learning and Online Teaching. This site offers classroom activities, lessons from peers in the field of education, and much more.

Tip: Take a look at the personal collections from others in your field.

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It’s class management, free, at your fingertips–a free course management system that can be used in the elementary through college classroom. Moodle allows teachers to create Internet-based courses and websites. Provided for free through Open Source software, anyone can create sites for their students to use in and for class.

Tip: View the Moodle Demonstration Site to see how everything works.

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This is where Webquests are made and shared for your classroom. Webquests are an online inquiry-based lesson format. Problem solving and creative thinking skills are engaged in Webquests and this website links teachers to many different learning opportunities.

Tip: Use the Find Webquests tool to browse all these new online learning adventures.

    debategraph this link goes to an external site
    Seeking diverse perspectives, interpretations or new understandings of topicsand issues impacting our world? Join debategraph, a browser based, wiki-style site, where students can synthesize, evaluate, expand, collaborate, contribute and substantiate their own thoughts and ideas to both sides of the issues. Debategraph utilizes visual depiction to deepen and enrich student understanding for a continuous and robust debate.

    Guidelines for School Library Programs: Instructional Partner
    “The SLMS collaborates with classroom teachers to develop assignments that are matched to academic standards and include critical thinking skills, technology and information literacy skills, and core social skills and cultural competencies. The SLMS guides instructional design by working with the classroom teacher to establish learning objectives and goals, and by implementing assessment strategies before, during and after assigned units of study.”