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Bloom’s Taxonomy Blooms Digitally2008 Article by Andrew ChurchesGet Blended!programming, filming, animating, Blogging, Video blogging, mixing, remixing, wiki-ing, publishing, video-casting, podcasting, directing/producing, creating or building mash ups(blog/vlog) commenting, reviewing, posting, moderating, collaborating, networking, reflecting, (alpha & beta) testing.mashing, linking, reverse-engineering, cracking, mind-mapping, validating, taggingImplementing, carrying out, using, executing, running, loading, playing, operating, hacking, uploading, sharing, editingadvanced searching, Boolean searching, blog journaling, twittering, categorizing and tagging, commenting, annotating, subscribinghighlighting, bookmarking, social networking, social bookmarking, favorite-ing/local bookmarking, Searching, Googling2008 - Digital

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Resources:21st Century Skills Project at http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php Churches, Andrew. "Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally." Educators' eZine (2008). Retrieved 8 Aug 2009, from http://www.techlearning.com/article/8670e-Portfolios @ Penn State - http://portfolio.psu.edu/Forehand, M. (2005). Bloom's taxonomy: Original and revised. In M. Orey (Ed.), Emerging perspectives on learning, teaching, and technology. Retrieved 18 Oct 09, from http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/Garrison, D. Randy and Vaughan, Norman D., (2008). Blended Learning in Higher Education - Framework, Principles, and Guidelines Krathwohl, D.R. (2002). A Revision of bloom's taxonomy: an overview. Theory into Practice, 41(4), 212-218.The Economist Intelligence Unit 2008, The future of higher education: How technology will shape learning http://www.nmc.org/pdf/Future-of-Higher-Ed-(NMC).pdfWeb Learning @ Penn State – Blended Learning https://weblearning.psu.edu/blended-learning-initiative/what_is_blended_learning