The American Association of School Librarians publishes an annual list of its best websites for teaching and learning. The sites it recognizes
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.
One particularly cool website on the list is called WhatWasThere. That site uses Google Maps to explore what a location used to look like. I used the site to compare one intersection near my home. It displayed a photo taken during the 1860s with a Google Street View of what the intersection looks like now. It was fascinating to compare the two. WhatWasThere also offers an accompanying iPhone app.
All told, this year's AASL list has 25 sites on it. With a list that comprehensive it's hard to know where to start. But by focusing on just one new site per week we would be able to introduce our students to a new type of engagement weekly, almost until the end of this school year.
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