Information Literacy and eLearning 

This page contains a mix of sites about digital and information literacy and sites about teaching such topics.

• 21st Century Fluency Project
  "An innovative resource designed to cultivate 21st century fluencies, while fostering engagement and adventure in the learning experience."
• 90+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy
  "Interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. ... These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use." From the Open Thinking Wiki.
• Digital Citizenship
  "Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use. ... These resources can be used by any anyone who is interested in helping students or others better understand appropriate technology use."
• edu 2.0
  Impressive free portals for educators. Includes tools for teaching a classonline (with lessons, quizzes, and gradebook) as well as teacher forums, lesson plans, member groups, blogs, calendar, and more.
• EDUCAUSE
  "EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology." Also publishes EduCause Quarterly and EduCause Review.
• Eduslide
  "Create and deliver your own elearning using eduslide.net. Browse thousands of lessons. Create your own and share the knowledge." (Formerly Tuterom.)
• edutagger
  "edutagger is a social bookmarking service for K-12 learners and educators, allowing you to store your web links online and share them with others, all within an educational context." Like del.icio.us or Diigo but specifically organized for easy school-subject access.
• Filamentary
  "Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into learning activities."
• Internet4Classrooms
  Links and online tutorials for teachers.
• ISTE: International Society for Technology in Education
  "A nonprofit membership organization, ISTE provides leadership and service to improve teaching, learning, and school leadership by advancing the effective use of technology in PK–12 and teacher education."
• K-12 Online Conference
  "This is a conference by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. A goal of the conference is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a continually changing learning landscape."
• New Tools for Learning
  Subject-organized links to web 2.0 resources and aids for teachers from Joyce Valenza.
• NoodleTools: 21st Century Literacies
  Basic language literacy, media literacy, visual literacy, and information literacy tools for teachers.
• NCTE: 21st Century Literacies: NCTE Ning
  "Technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments. Join this group to share and benefit from current best practices on this topic." Not just for English teachers! See also:
  • Pathways for 21st Century Literacies
  • More Thoughts on 21st Century Literacies
  • NCTE Framework for 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment
• Partners in Learning Network
  "We are a global community of educators who value innovative uses of information & communication technology that improve learning outcomes." Includes lesson plans, tools, and other resources by and for teachers.
• Partnership for 21st Century Skills
  "P21 and its members provide tools and resources to help the U.S. education system keep up by fusing the three Rs and four Cs (critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, and creativity and innovation)."
• Route 21
  "The goal of Route 21 is to provide an online interactive tool that demonstrates how 21st century skills can be supported through standards, professional development, assessments and curriculum and instruction."
• TrackStar
  "TrackStar helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) for use in lessons. The resource list remains visible allowing the user to easily stay on track."
• Warlick's CoLearners
  Wiki by educator David Warlick focusing on educational technology and media literacy.

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