AASL+Best+Websites+of+2011

=Best Websites for Teaching and Learning=

The Best Websites for Teaching and Learning honors websites, tools, and resources of exceptional value to inquiry-based teaching and learning as embodied in the American Association of School Librarians' //Standards for the 21st-Century Learner// New for 2011, the Top 25 Websites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.

The Landmark Websites are honored due to their exemplary histories of authoritative, dynamic content and curricular relevance. They are free, web-based sites that are user-friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover and provide a foundation to support 21st-century teaching and learning.
 * Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning NEW FOR 2011!
 * Past Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning Lists
 * Landmark Websites for Teaching and Learning
 * Tools and Resources for School Librarians[[image:s671htow/bestlist_image.png width="159" height="109" align="right" caption="Best Websites for Teaching and Learning " link="http://www.ala.org/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/bestlist/bestwebsites"]]
 * Press Kit
 * Nominate a Website

=**My Uses for this site:**=
 * **First and foremost, I use this site as a "spark" for specific ideas to give to teachers**
 * **I use specific applications to build my repetoire for projects and lesson plans**
 * **My goal is to add 2-4 new applications/ideas a year to my toolkit**
 * **I share specific applications with teachers through professional development trainings**
 * **I always connect the application to projects or concepts I know they are teaching in their curriculum**
 * **I always offer to be the one to teach their students to use it**

=**One of my favorites from the 2011 list:**=
 * PicLits**
 * The goal of the site is to prompt writers to play with language by providing images that they can connect to words, phrases, etc. Nothing too high-tech, but it would be an engaging way to introduce a unit on poetry. Images can be printed.**

 See the full PicLit at PicLits.com