K-12Librarians

"Connexions is:a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute"

"Global Voices aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online attampting to shine light on places and people other media often ignore"

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.

This is a great site for students to make banners for PPT presentations, web pages etc.

A Diigo wiki with videos and links to tutorials.

Free PowerPoint templates to download and use.

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 (metersyards)

This is a short video clip of Quentin Blake explaining what the word 'illustration' means to him. The website Wordia is a video dictionary uploaded by people to illustrate the significance various words have for them.

An interactive site for helping young children learn to read

Nowhere has the timeless power of narrative been more apparent than at TED: here, storytellers both professional and provisional use the personal tale to entertain, educate and inspire to action.

Michael Stephen's "Welcome to the 2009" version of TTW's annual look at the trends and technologies that I believe will impact what we do in libraries and information centers.