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"The History Engine is an educational tool that gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work-researching, writing, and publishing-of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or "episodes" that paints a wide-ranging portrait of life in the United States throughout its history and that is available to scholars, teachers, and the general public in our online database." Via http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/04/history-engine-explore-stories-of.html

Mac OS X Lion includes an Auttomator action, named Text to EPUB File, that is designed to make it very easy to convert selected text or text documents into EPUB books, ideal for transferring to iPads and iPhones. Additionally, the created EPUB books can include images, MPEG audio, or MPEG video files.

Revision is a critical piece of the writing process-and of your classroom curriculum. Now, Google Docs has partnered with Weekly Reader's Writing for Teens magazine to help you teach it in a meaningful and practical way. The sharing features of Google Docs enable you and your students to decide exactly who can access and edit documents. You'll find that Google Docs helps promote group work and peer editing skills, and that it helps to fulfill the stated goal of The National Council of Teachers of English, which espouses writing as a process and encourages multiple revisions and peer editing. On this page, you will find several reproducible PDF articles from Writing magazine filled with student-friendly tips and techniques for revision. You'll also find a teacher's guide that provides you with ideas for how to use these materials with Google Docs to create innovative lesson plans about revision for your classroom.

"Have locations you need to map? Well try this free and unique tool to... * Map them using Google Maps * Publish a map on your Web site * Create a store locator * Get coordinates, print maps, and more!"

The Blio eReader software is the new touchstone for the presentation of electronic books, magazines, and digital content. Its feature-rich design is perfect for today's power readers, who increasingly rely on digital content for work, leisure, and learning. The extensive Blio Bookstore was created in partnership with Baker & Taylor, the world's largest distributor of literary content and value-added services, and the world's largest publishers. Enjoy a vast selection of titles, with a superior, color reading experience on desktop PCs, netbooks, tablet PCs and mobile devices.

"Why use VideoLobby? Until now running a live webcast was complex and labour-some, VideoLobby provides a simple yet powerful web-based production solution that makes publishing a professional live show as easy as setting up a blog. "

In this workshop, participants will discuss what Google Documents are and then create a project. Google Applications is a tool which has many uses inside and outside the classroom. It can be used for collaborative writing, revising documents and presentations, and sharing and publishing student work online.

Encyclopedia Virginia is a dynamic, authoritative, and globally accessible resource that explores the people, places, events, and institutions of the Commonwealth. Published by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, EV provides a platform for discovering and learning about Virginia.

Pixelpipe is a media gateway that allows users to publish text and upload photos, video and audio files once through Pixelpipe and have the content distributed across over 95 social networks, photo/video sites and blogs, and other online destinations. We provide free mobile & desktop applications, liberate your media and share your life.

Use zinepal.com to create your own magazines and eBooks. You can select content from blogs, Atom/RSS feeds and other websites. zinepal.com reformats the content into a printable PDF and an eBook for use with the Amazon Kindle and other eBook readers. Now you can take your content wherever you go. Read your zine during your commute, in the park or your favorite coffee shop. You can also e-mail it to your friends or just let them subscribe to your zine feed on zinepal.com.

Our mission is to transform boys into lifelong readers. We are an organization of parents, educators, librarians, mentors, authors, and booksellers. Periodically, we will feature an Extraordinary Author on our home page. Below is information about an incredible writer who has published several compelling and gripping novels that boys love.