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AASL's Top 25 Web Sites for Teaching and LearningStore this angel in big sizeThe American Association of School Librarians (AASL) announces a new ability for academy library media specialists and their abecedary colleagues. The Best Websites for Teaching and Learning, a account anniversary the top twenty-five Internet sites for acceptable acquirements and class development, is advised the "best of the best" by AASL.

The Top 25 Web sites for Teaching and Learning were called so because they advance the qualities of innovation, creativity, breath accord and collaboration. The Web sites accustomed include: Animoto; Classroom 2.0; Curriki; Diigo; Edublogs; Facebook; Good Reads; Google Reader; Mindmeister; Ning; Our Story; Partnership for 21st Century Skills; Polleverywhere; Primary Access; RezED; Second Life; Simply Box; Skype; SOS for Information Literacy; Teacher Tube; Twitter; VoiceThread; Wikispaces; Wordle; and Zoho.

“The assignment force formed actual harder to ambition websites that abutment learner-centered, analysis based curriculum. In the easily of abreast educators, these avant-garde and able Web 2.0 accoutrement and assets can be acclimated to appoint and actuate acceptance in the acquirements action and to advance 21st aeon skills,” said AASL Best List Task Force Chair, Pam Berger.

With its Academic Edition, MindMeister provides a complete collaborative apperception mapping band-aid for educational institutions such as schools, universities and acquirements centers. It helps agents and advisers to administer capital anticipation mapping elements in the classroom and ensure that acquirements is an able and memorable experience.

“We absolutely feel actual accustomed to be included in the AASL’s best list. Mind mapping is a awful admired educational address with accurate allowances for both abecedary and student, yet it is still somewhat underrepresented in a archetypal curriculum. We achievement that the AASL’s acceptance will advice us change this,” said Michael Hollauf, Marketing Director of MindMeister.

The Top 25 action accoutrement and assets in acclimation and managing; agreeable collaboration; class sharing; media sharing; basic environments; and amusing networking and communication. Each Web website is affiliated to one or added of the four strands of the Standards for the 21-Century Learner – skills, dispositions in action, responsibilities, and self-assessment strategies. The account will be adapted annually based on acknowledgment and nominations from members.

About MindMeister

MindMeister is the market-leading collaborative online apperception mapping and anticipation tool. Launched in May 2007, the website bound acquired absorption a allotment of businesses, educational organizations and consumers.
MindMeister's allowances comprise affluence of use, online and offline availability, real-time collaboration, and sharing. It innovates the way you crop notes, brainstorm, or plan your projects.
MindMeister -- a alone browser-based software account -- takes out the altercation of advancement software installs for acceptance in organizations like schools or enterprises. To apprentice added about MindMeister amuse appointment www.MindMeister.com/home/about.

About the AASL

The American Association of School Librarians, www.aasl.org, a analysis of the American Library Association (ALA), promotes the advance and addendum of library media casework in elementary and accessory schools as a agency of deepening the absolute apprenticeship program. Its mission is to advocate excellence, facilitate change and advance leaders in the academy library media field.

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