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Summer Reading Program--New York State History Reading Lists
To commemorate the New York State Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial, the New York State Library, as part of the 2009 Summer Reading Program, has created four selected reading lists that celebrate the history, culture, and diversity of New York State. Each of the four lists covers one reader age group: Picture Books; Elementary; Tween; and Teen and up.

Over the past few years, Nelson Lauver's nationally syndicated radio feature "The American Storyteller Radio Journal" has established a dedicated U.S. listener base. Fans refer to his stories as unique, timeless and "great radio" and have likened his style to that of Charles Kuralt and Mark Twain.

Now, the complete library of these 4-minute radio stories is available free online at www.TheAmericanStoryteller.com.

Visitors to the site can search the approximately 300 story library by keyword or over 20 topics -- then listen to, download, link to, or send the story to a friend. Each 4-minute, mp3 story is broadcast quality and available in high speed or dial-up versions.

There is also a free "story of the week" feature whereby visitors can sign up to automatically receive a new story link every Wednesday.

While the average listener demographic is 24 to 60 years of age, stories are suitable for all ages. Subjects range from hometown America to interesting incidents and individuals, real people profiles, American History, etc.

LoudLit.org is committed to delivering public domain literature paired with high quality audio performances. We pair together great literature and accompanying audio.

Putting the text and audio together, readers can learn spelling, punctuation and paragraph structure by listening and reading masterpieces of the written word. Read and listen via your web browser or on your mp3 player. Regardless of how you enjoy the audiobooks (audio books), they are free.

Over 2000 free audio and video titles. This directory features free audio books, lectures, speeches, sermons, interviews, and many other great free audio and video resources. Most audio titles can be downloaded in digital formats such as MP3 and most video titles are available to stream online.

Fiction:Classics, Modern, Adventures, Crime Mystery, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Westerns, Terrorists, Martial Arts, Spy Stories, Thrillers, Historical, Adult, Philisophical, Experimental, Humour Comedy.

The downloads are available in mp3 and in m4b audio book format for iTunes and the iPod. The advantage of using the iPod format is that it remembers where you stop in a file. The iTunes player software is available for free download here.

The Learning Center is designed to help educators and students develop a better sense of what plagiarism means in the information age, and to teach the planning, organizational, and citation skills essential for producing quality writing and research.
Our site offers information about:

* Plagiarism defined, in easy-to-understand terms
* Tips on how to avoid both internet-based and conventional plagiarism
* Guidelines for proper citation, and links to help with specific citation styles
* Suggestions for developing good research and writing skills
* Answers to frequently asked questions, including explanations for often misunderstood concepts like fair use, public domain, and copyright laws
* Definitions for important research-related terms
* Suggestions for integrating plagiarism education into lesson plans
* Tips for creating assignments that discourage plagiarism and encourage original thinking
* Information on the causes of plagiarism today
* Help with identifying different types of plagiarism, in particular plagiarism from the internet
* Printable handouts for students on plagiarism, proper citation, and paper writing

A really neat add-on to your browser that enables image search results to be displayed on a panoramic wall where each image can be enlarged for imediate viewing as well as linking to the source site.

Sumopaint offers professional and easy to use tools for creating and editing images within a browser.

a site that softens all the fantastic advanced functions Google offers. This site is meant for all those who are not yet familiar with all the possibilities of Google and all the required syntaxes.

For instance, one can specify a search by one particuliar site or filetype( word, excel, powerpoint and pdf) or an imagesearch by size and type.

Furthermore there are many useful tools Google offers; search in the latest news, look up definitions or use Google as a phonebook.

And last but not least, the Calculator. This amazing tool let's you do all kind of (very advanced) calculations. Soople has added the unit-converter, which is based on this calculator, for the conversion of all the commmon units/measures (meters<--->yards)

Featured Digital Collections & Services:

American Memory American History & Culture -
A digital library of historic maps, photos, documents, audio and video from American Memory.

Historic Newspapers - Enhanced access to America's historic newspapers through the Chronicling America project.

International Collections - International materials and bilingual presentations from overseas libraries from Global Gateway.

Legislative Information - THOMAS provides searchable full text of bills, Congressional Record and more.

Performing Arts - Collections, articles and special presentations on music, theater and dance materials.

Prints and Photographs - Catalog of about half of the Library's pictorial holdings with over 1 million digital images.

Veterans History - Experience first-person stories of wartime service through personal artifacts.

Web Site Archiving - Searchable archives of historic Web pages including national elections, 9/11 and more.

Encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, and almanacs

Thousands of free classic books by authors such as Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare and many others.