"ked with book trailers and language arts-related games, School library media Kids is designed to provide an interactive learning experience to get students motivated to learn on their own! Students can choose from exceptional literacy-related resources such as author and book review websites as well as superb educational tools including reference works and search engines."
The OTR.Network Library is a free resource for Old Time Radio (OTR) fans. We have over 12,000 OTR shows available for instant listening. Scroll down to see the shows. If you'd like to contact us, send your email to Ken Varga at otrnet@gmail.com.
Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. It promotes discovery and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage.
Ideas and inspiration can be found within the more than 15 million items on Europeana. These objects include:
* Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects
* Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers
* Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts
* Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts"
"Take your books’ covers from drab to fab by challenging students to make “Book Ads” using “Wordle”—a free, user-friendly, Web 2.0 tool that transforms simple text into eye-popping word clouds. Modify the directions and templates provided below to use with students."
"Take your books' covers from drab to fab by challenging students to make "Book Ads" using "Wordle"-a free, user-friendly, Web 2.0 tool that transforms simple text into eye-popping word clouds. Modify the directions and templates provided below to use with students."
one of the finest collections of author/illustrator videos I've ever seen. It's a staggering - interviews of pretty much every key figure in modern children's literature. What you see below is just a fraction of their author video library. You can access the videos two ways:
Browse andComment Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation. Announcements3/14/11: We are launching a restoration project in the spring of 2011 to fix up the broken content on the site. Thanks to everyone for your patience as we continue to restore the missing works. Please see the help section if you have any questions.
If you look way up at the top right hand corner on the homepage of abookandahug.com, you'll see Register An Account and Log In. These are great tools for getting kids to make and keep lists, to make lists with friends which promotes what I call social reading, or for a class or an entire school to create a shared list. I've had mothers come and tell me that their daughters and their BFF's have made a list and are sharing it with each other. Brothers and families are doing the same thing. People do some wonderfully creative things when handed a tool with possibilities.
"Make a short video about your favorite book and use the online form to enter and compete for prizes. Be sure to check out the rules, but here are the basics:"