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"You can now upload your own PDFs and EPUB files to Google Play Books. Upload your files and you can read them on your iPad or Android device with the Google Play Books app (click here for iOS app, click here for Android app). When you upload your files you will be able to bookmark, highlight, and the dictionary tools just like you can with any other book in the Google Books app. "

That is the case with the latest video from Kina Grannis and her song In Your Arms. It is Grannis singing in front of a very colorful moving background, which is nice on its own, but then you learn the background is made using nothing but jelly beans. 288,000 jelly beans in fact. As the video progresses the animation gets progressively more complicated and adventurous. By the end you can understand why it took 22 months to create, with a total of 30 people working for 1,357 hours.

stop motion jelly bean video - That is the case with the latest video from Kina Grannis and her song In Your Arms. It is Grannis singing in front of a very colorful moving background, which is nice on its own, but then you learn the background is made using nothing but jelly beans. 288,000 jelly beans in fact. As the video progresses the animation gets progressively more complicated and adventurous. By the end you can understand why it took 22 months to create, with a total of 30 people working for 1,357 hours.

"One of my favorite free iPad apps of 2013 is the World Wildlife Fund's Together app. That app features interactive stories about endangered species around the world. The stories show you where the animals live and the threats facing them. If you and or your students don't have iPads, you can access similar information through WWF Wildfinder."

the site newsela.com This site takes news stories and allows you to change the reading level for a particular story. Topic listings include: war & peace; science; law; health; arts; money and kids. The site is in beta right now and is free. You do need to create an account. For those of you who want to find nonfiction articles for your classes this is one way of doing it. Our databases are another source for nonfiction articles.

"If you search the ELA standards, you will find that the word information appears 243 times. That can be discovered through a simple PDF binocular search on Internet Explorer. "

Context transforms information into knowledge! Context brings meaning to what you learn and helps you understand and remember events, locations, people and concepts. This is an American Civil War-limited beta release of the ContextU application.

"MyStorybook is a nice online tool for creating short storybooks. MyStorybook provides blank pages on which you can type, draw, and place clipart. Your storybook pages can also include pictures that you upload."

"Storyboard That is a service that you and your students can use to create simple comic strips. I've reviewed it in the past and today I would like to share a demonstration of how to use it. The video below demonstrates how to use the basic functions of Storyboard That."

FAQs for 3D Printers: Learn about 3D printers and get some invaluable advice for acquiring and running one in your library from Tyler Rousseau of Monroe Township Public Library. Tyler is November's TechEx Guest Contributor - you can find his other posts on Makerspaces here.

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Chromatik offers you a full catalog of free sheet music. Learning music is hard. Getting digital access to your tunes and tools shouldn't be; access reference tracks, annotation tools, and recording features, etc

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dotEPUB is software in the cloud that allows you to convert any webpage into an e-book.

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History in Motion offers powerful, easy-to-use features so you can create historical scenarios, animate events, share your work with others, and explore history in a way that was never before possible.