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The GPO expands free eBook access
Earlier this week, the US Government Printing Office announced the expansion of its ebook program to increase public access to government publications. Though the initial release was limited to 100 titles, the plan is to make new titles available each month free of charge. The public, and that includes students and teachers, will now have full-text [...]
Summer SYNC Line-up announced
SYNC is back. So make sure your favorite kiddos have their ear-buds ready for reading this summer. Please also share this news with your favorite teachers. Beginning on May 15, the SYNC program, associated with the Audiobook Community, will offer teens weekly selections of free digital audiobooks pairings. Each audiobook pair consists of a current [...]
Cardwiki: simple and adaptive
I recently heard from Michael Bollinger and Max Holnaicher, a couple of German university students who developed Cardwiki, a simple, collaborative flashcard study tool. They created it for themselves at first. Michael shared some background: Max studies in Warwick (Management) and I study at LSE, University of London (Accounting with Law). It made no sense [...]
Strategies for moving from online to networked learning: background & a round-up
There’s a world of difference between online learning and networked learning. I taught my first online course back in 2001. Back in 2012, when I returned to the LMS (learning management system) or CMS (course management system) after eleven years, I realized that not much had changed inside the course management system, while changes outside [...]
buncee.edu for easy and adorable storytelling
Buncee is "an easy fit for digital storytelling and scrapbooking, flipping, presenting, marketing, and for communicating with parents and community," says Joyce Valenza.
Storyboardthat and a comic/storyboarding round-up
StoryboardThat is a relatively new tool that offers an attractive, inexpensive option for creating simple cartoon outlines. I’ve been playing with the free plan that allows for three free saves per day and I love the easy drag-and-drop storyboard creator with the libraries of more than 325 characters, 225 scenes, 45,000 searchable images and the [...]
Tellitmyway: the oral tradition meets Reddit
Looking for an authentic strategy for inspiring student writing? Joyce Valenza recommends Tellitmyway, a new nonprofit site, which she describes as a "living, breathing example of the oral tradition in the digital age."
New YALSA Outstanding Books for the College Bound
In the wake of the high profile announcements of the Youth Media Awards, another elegant list emerged a little more quietly. Every five years, a YALSA committee comprised of public, secondary, and academic librarians, selects titles for independent teen reading and lifelong learning in its Outstanding Books for the College Bound. The list includes fiction, nonfiction [...]
Book a free room for the Learning Revolution
An alternative to Google Hangouts, the Learning Revolution Project lets you use a free public Blackboard Collaborate room to host your own education-related webinar.
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