• Have students interpret and analyze text, media, audio, etc.
• Develop assignments that integrate critical thinking and problem solving skills.
• Develop assignments where students need to use self-direction to make them more socially responsible.
• Look globally at issues and in assignments.

• Look at the lessons available and integrate them into your teaching and/or assignments.

• Show students videos from 60 Second Recap to get them engaged and interested in the literature.
• 60 Second Recap encourages students to send in their own 60 second recap video, so have your students create their own 60 second recap as an assignment.
• Use these videos to show students how much information can be given in 60 seconds in a concise, intelligent way as an example for their own presentations.

• Read the AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner to get a better idea of the standards so you may try to integrate some of them.
• Check out the AASL list of Best Websites for Teaching and Learning to get top websites and tips on how to use them in the classroom.

• Use to analyze current and future assignments to see if there is any area that could be improved when it comes to integrating information literacy and the research process.

• Take images in your classroom and create classroom videos.
• Have students use Animoto to create videos for presentation assignments.
• Sign up for the educator account so your videos can be longer than 30 seconds.

• Have students create 60 second reports about topics in your class.
• See also "60 Second Recap" for ideas about recaps in 60 seconds.

• See "microblogging."

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• Create a class blog to upload class information, assignments, calendars, etc.
• Have students create blogs for assignments to reflect upon what they've done or read.
• Encourage students to read and comment on each other's blogs.
• Follow blogs of other educators to get ideas from them.
• Have students read blogs to enhance class work and/or assignments.

• See "RSS readers."

• Integrate new technology into the classroom.
• Give over some control to the students and have them teach each other concepts and how to use new technologies.

• Store your bookmarks online on a social bookmarking site like Delicious.
• Upload your documents to Google Docs for storage and sharing.

• Use the Copyright Wiki to find lesson plans on copyright you can incorporate into your classroom.
• Look at the Copyright-Friendly Materials page to find copyright-friendly images, video, and music that you could use in the classroom or have your students use in their assignments.

•  Search the Creative Commons to find images, videos, music, and more that you and your students can use in presentations, reports, etc.
• View this slideshow for more uses of the Creative Commons in schools - Creative Commons in Our Schools.

• Have your own customizable homepage to streamline what you do online.
• Make part of your homepage full of useful information to share with your students.
• Have your students sign up for customizable homepages and have them put gadgets on their pages that will feed them information useful for class assignments.

• Search for lesson plan information and/or other supplemental info for class preparation.
• Have students search databases to find information for assignments.
• Use folders/workspaces in databases to organize information.
• See "ELM."

• See "social bookmarking."

• Have students use Diigo to store bookmarks to websites they're using for their research and to take notes in Diigo about why they thought this website was good.
• Set up a classroom group so you can share websites with your students and they can share them with each other.

• Use the information literacy lessons when planning your assignments.  You can use the lessons verbatim or take bits and pieces of them and integrate them into already-established assignments.

• See "microblogging."

• Have students use Proquest Newsstand Complete to find newspaper articles written the day they were born.
• Have students use Britannica for background information on their topics.
• Have students use Points of View Reference Center to help with Pro/Con assignments.
• Use different databases for your own research.
• See "database."

• Embed videos from WatchKnow or YouTube on a class blog or wiki.
• Embed maps from Google Maps on a class blog or wiki.
• Embed books from Google Books on a class blog or wiki.

• Have students sign up for Evernote so they can store their notes from all their classes in one place. Students can even share notebooks with each other and collaborate on notes.
• Use the "Clip to Evernote" toolbar button to easily clip stories from the web and save them as text in your Evernote account.

• Friend colleagues you meet at conferences to stay in touch.
• Join groups of interest in Facebook to stay on top of certain issues.
• See "social networking."

• Download the Firefox browser and see "Firefox Add-ons" for more tips using the browser.

• Check out this list of suggested Firefox Add-ons for 6 thru 12 educators or this list of suggested Add-ons for teachers.
• Add the Shmoop search engine to your Firefox dropdown search box. See also "Shmoop."
• Search or browse for more Add-ons.

• Create a Flickr account for your classroom and upload pictures from class and/or assignments.
• Encourage students to submit photos for the classroom Flickr account.
• Search the Creative Commons images in Flickr to find images to use. On the Advanced Search screen, before searching, scroll way to the bottom to select Creative Commons-licensed materials.
• Search the Flickr Commons (images uploaded by certain organizations, mostly historic images) to find images to use for class.

• Use as an alternative to PowerPoint when it comes to having students made presentations to the class.
• Create your own glogs to share materials with students, like websites they should be using, class assignments, videos, etc.

• Set up an RSS feed alert for "technology and education."
• Have students set up alerts for items pertinent to class.

• Encourage students to search for books on their topic.
• If you find books of interest for your students, embed them on a class blog or wiki.

• Have students collaborate on documents using Google Docs.
• Collaborate with other teachers on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in Google Docs.
• View this PDF - Using Google Docs in the Classroom.
• View this slideshow - 21 Interesting Ways to Use Google Docs in Classroom.

• Have students search for news and set up Google Alerts for news. See "Google Alerts."
• Have students use the Google News Archive Search to search for historical newspaper articles.

• See "RSS readers."

• Have students search for scholarly journal articles with Google Scholar.
• Search for journal articles to help with lesson planning and assignments in Google Scholar.

• If you and your students use Twitter in the classroom, set up a unique hashtag everyone should use when commenting on classroom activities.

• View the standards for teachers to get tips as to how to integrate the standards into the classroom.
• On the ITSE Educator Resources page, use the links on the left side of the page under "Educator Resources" for help with assessment, curriculum (which does include lesson plans), tech integration, and more.

• See "customizable homepages."
• View this PDF - iGoogle in the classroom.

• Have students search here for scholarly materials, but know this is for the more advanced student needing college-level scholarly materials for their research.

• Have your students look here for credible online sources for their research.
• This is a great place to find online newspapers and magazines from all over the world, too.
• The pages "For Kids" and "For Teens" are full of a lot of other materials, too, like reading guides.

• See "ELM" and "database."

• See "screencasting."

• Set up journal alerts for journals in your field and have them sent to your email or your RSS reader.
• Have students set up alerts for journals that might help them for class or an assignment.

• On the Information and Technology Literacy Standards page, choose the latest standards for the grade-level you teach to get a better idea of them and how to integrate them into the classroom.

• Use a microblogging service with your students and have them comment about classroom discussions to bring the backchannel to the front. See also "backchannel."
• See "Edmodo," "TodaysMeet," and "Twitter" for examples of microblogging services.

• See "Google News."

• Create a Ning for your classroom so students can blog, respond to forum discussions, post documents, videos and pictures, and interact in many other ways.
• Join Nings for your own professional development, like the Classroom 2.0 Ning and the NextGen Teachers Ning.

• See "social networking."

• Read the article by Doug Johnson and look at the LPPs he suggests.  Are there any of them you can use to tweak your own assignments to make them more plagiarism proof?

• Have students created podcasts throughout the whole semester where they comment upon the literature they've been reading.
• Teachers can create podcasts to correspond with what is taught in class.
• Subscribe to educational podcasts. The Education Podcast Network is a great place to find educational podcasts.

• See "RSS readers."

• Find and follow RSS feeds from other educators blogs to get ideas from them.
• Find blogs to follow in these lists - 100 Best Blogs for Teachers of the Future or 100 Best Blogs for Tech-Savvy Teachers.
• Set up search or journal alert RSS feeds in databses. See also "journal alert" and "search alert."
• Show students how to use a reader to follow news RSS feeds and RSS feeds set up in databases.

• Encourage students to use a variety of resources, but to evaluate them for credibility.
• Things to think about when evaluating:
• Who wrote this? What are the author's qualifications?
• When was this published/created?
• What is the purpose of this publication?
• What assumptions does the author make?
• Does this support your argument?
• Does this source provide any other leads (i.e. look in the Bibliography for more resources).

• Ask these questions:
• What resources did the students use?
• How did they analyze and interpret them?
• Did they use them correctly?
• Did the resources they use support their overall thesis or problem?
• Do you grade more on the final product or the research process?

• Have students use the Research Project Calculator for their assignments, and encourage them to sign up for email updates about when certain steps should be finished.
• Use the teacher support materials and integrate some of them into your assignments.
• Use the Dribbling Lessons Wiki for assignments that integrate information literacy and incorporate the various steps of the Research Project Calculator.

• Quote and paraphrase items correctly.
• Properly cite items.
• Fair use is permitted in education, but fair use still is limited to only some use of copyrighted items. See also "fair use."

• Create screencasts of websites you find helpful for class.
• Create a screencast of how to do something your students need to know, whether it's how to do something on the web or using certain software on the computer.
• Have students created screencasts for an assignment, like a screencast explaining how they found a certain website, what they used on the website, and why they thought it was a good for their research.

• See "screencasting."

• See "screencasting."

• Set up search alerts for your own research.
• Show students how to set up search alerts for their research.

• Search Shmoop to find supplemental information for lesson planning.
• Share Shmoop guides with your students.

• If you want to share PowerPoint presentations with someone, instead of attaching the presentation to an email, which is really large, just upload the document to slideshare and share it by just sending a link.
• Upload a presentation to SlideShare to embed it easily on a class blog or wiki.
• Search SlideShare for presentations on topics of interest.

• If you're sick of using PowerPoint, try SlideRocket for presentations. The only downside is that once you create a presentation in SlideRocket it has to stay there. You cannot download presentations unless you buy the paid subscription to SlideRocket.

• Store your bookmarks in a social bookmarking tool.
• Share links to your bookmarks with students.
• Find and follow other people using the same social bookmarking tool to see what websites they upload.
• Share a social bookmarking tool with your students and encourage them to use it in these same ways.

• Create your online personal learning network (PLN) by using different social networks.
• Find and friend colleagues and other educators to stay on top of new things they are doing.
• See "Facebook," "Ning," and "Twitter."

• In Delicious, use tags to organize bookmarks. Follow tags of other users to find more bookmarks.
• In Google Reader, use tags to organize stories you want to save.
• When blogging, use tags to highlight what each blog is about.

• See "microblogging."

• See "microblogging."
• Follow other teachers and colleagues on Twitter to find educational tips and tricks.
• Find teachers to follow using these - 100 Terrific Twitter Feeds for Teaching Advice and the twitter4teachers wiki.

• See "podcast."

• Have students record audio for an assignment.
• Group assignments could be done via Vocaroo with students sitting around the computer putting on a radio broadcast or interviewing each other.

• Find videos connected to what you're teaching.
• Share videos with students.
• Upload your own videos into WatchKnow.
• Embed videos from WatchKnow onto a class blog or wiki.

• Create a classroom wiki where you upload documents, assignments, calendars, videos, slideshows, pictures, etc.
• Have students make wikis together for a classroom project.

• Find videos connected to what you're teaching. Check out this list of 100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers.
• Most often Youtube is blocked in schools, so download the video to share with your students. Use the Firefox Add-on Easy YouTube Video Downloader or Kick YouTube.

• Have students collaborate on documents using Zoho or use the Zoho note-taking application.
• Collaborate with other teachers on Zoho documents, spreadsheets, wikis, etc.