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**Changing the Questions / Changing the Culture**
[|Changing the Questions / Culture PowerPoint]


 * Background**
 * Levin, D., Arafeh, S., Lenhart, A., & Rainie, L. (2002). [|The digital disconnect: The widening gap between internet-savvy students and their schools.] //Pew Internet & American Life Project//
 * Stansbury, Meris. [|Report: Schools Aren't Preparing Kids for College. eSchool News.] 13 Sep. 2007.
 * [|Digital Students @ Analog Schools] (video)
 * [|Partnership for 21][|st][| Century Skills]
 * [|ISTE’s NETS]
 * [|ETS ITC Literacy Assessment Demo]
 * [|SFETT Film Festival]
 * [|Mabry Online Podcasts]
 * [|Rationale for Using Primary Sources] (Library of Congress)
 * [|Tools for Media Analysis] (Library of Congress)
 * Gordon Parks [|photograph of Ella Watson Government Charwoman]
 * David Warlick [|K12 Online Conference Keynote]


 * Lessons and Tools**
 * [|Springfield Lesson Page]
 * [|Current Events Planner]
 * [|Research Log Template]
 * [|Greece Athena Tools for Reading and Writing]
 * [|Question Brainstormer]
 * [|Marco Torres Flickschool]


 * New Standards and Assessments**
 * [|AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner]
 * [|Partnership for 21st Century Skills]
 * [|ISTE’s NETS for Students]
 * [|ETS iSkills]
 * [|IMSA 21st Century Literacy Portal]


 * Mind Mapping Tools**
 * [|MindMeister]
 * [|Bubbl.us]
 * [|Gliffy]
 * [|ReadWriteThink's Webbing Tool]
 * [|Persuasion Map]
 * [|Mindomo]


 * Collaborative Tools**
 * [|Voicethread] (digital storytelling with images)
 * [|Stixy] (bulletin board sharing) # Animoto (create music videos)
 * [|xtimeline](collaborative timelining tool)
 * [|ScrapBlog] (online scrapbook production)
 * [|Google Docs](Show, word processing, spreadsheet, etc.)
 * [|Zoho]Tools
 * [|Slide Rocket]
 * Fifty Ways to Tell a Story (Alan Levine)


 * Thesis Makeover**
 * [|Thesis development]
 * [|Thesis Role Play]
 * [|Thesis Generator]
 * [|History Brainstormer]

[|David Loertscher's Ban Those Bird Units] [|IMSA on Information Fluency]


 * Evaluation Tools**
 * [|CARRDSS] (evaluation acronym)
 * Evaluating Blogs
 * Middle Ages: Pages to Evaluate
 * [|Literary Criticism Annotation]
 * [|Evaluative Annotation] (scroll down)


 * Information Ethics**
 * [|Summarizing, Paraphrasing, Quoting]
 * [|Academic Integrity Policy]
 * [|BibMe]
 * [|Knight Cite]
 * [|Noodle Tools]
 * [|David Warlick's Son of Citation Machine]
 * [|Creative Commons]
 * Copyright-friendly sharing sites
 * [|Weaving Quotes into Your Writing]


 * About Questions and Inquiry**
 * [|The Question Mark] (Jamie McKenzie)
 * [|The Essential Question]
 * [|Making Good Lessons Quickly]
 * [|Five Kinds of Slam Dunk Lessons (McKenzie)]
 * [|13 Inquiry-Based Learning]
 * [|Eduscapes: Project, Problem and Inquiry-Based Learning]
 * [|Inquiry Page]


 * Lesson Portals and Examples**American Memory Lessons
 * [|American Memory Learning Page]
 * [|NARA Digital Classroom]
 * [|WebQuest Page]
 * [|Dan McDowell (A History Teacher)]
 * [|Best WebQuests.com]
 * [|Lubbock ISD sample problems, sample scenarios]
 * [|Missouri WebQuest examples]
 * [|Read*Write*Think]
 * [|Thinkfinity]
 * [|Access Excellence Mysteries]

[|Letter to Parents about “the changes”]

Image Generators I used in the presentation:
 * [|Imagechef.com]
 * [|Glass Giant Make Pictures]