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MeeGenius is an online library of picture books that kids can read independently or as a read along. Books can be personalized with students names, just answer a few quick questions and the book is rewritten for you. Each book comes with audio playback and word highlighting, perfect for beginning or struggling readers to read along.

Personally, I like the comic relief provided by a continuous learning curve and Jessica continued, dumb luck to Jason (his research on the existence of Santa to learn that werewolves would have reached a high point, humor wise), but I am ready to sink my teeth into real issues at hand.

"Allow a student to create a faux Facebook page for a famous person from history using a Google Drawing! A fun way to introduce research to students."

Librarians and educators need to be able to illustrate to students and users alike that websites cannot always be trusted to provide truthful and accurate data. This page provides examples of websites that are full of lies, inaccuracies or false information - either for amusement or for more worrying reasons. The list does not include phishing sites however; these are intended to fool a person into believing that they are visiting a legitimate bank site for example; there are already plenty of links to these online already.

My Fax allows you to send two faxes, with up to 10 pages each, per day for free. Unlike "Got Free Fax," which only lets you send free faxes to US and Canada based numbers, My Fax supports a much large set of countries even for their free service. MyFax offers a dedicated Fax number for an extra fee where you can receive faxes. All faxes sent to your personal fax number will arrive in your email inbox as PDFs.

From Mara Linaberger: Great discussion on the iPad everyone! Next Friday we will be launching an iPad pilot with 48 art, music and theatre teachers at IU1 as part of our ArtsEducator 2.0 project. You can read about our inquiry and preparation done this summer to get some practice in, and to think through some of the logistics these folks might face this fall with their own pad here: http://artsedtech.wordpress.com/ Our thinking was to have the teachers use the iPad as a personal tool first, then move to them as a tool for instruction. The logical step for some may be to then take the tool into student use while others may stick to it as an instructional tool. We'll be documenting our project online here.

Which Founder Are You? is a twelve question personality quiz designed by the National Constitution Center. The purpose of the quiz is to help quiz takers identify which founding father they are most like.

"Throughout its history, the BBC has aimed to help audiences delve into the imagination of writers. This collection of interviews with some of the 20th Century's most read authors reveals something of those imaginations and the personalities which lie behind some of the greatest modern novels. "

Are you having trouble getting through to folks to try to loosen up the restrictions to allow you to do the kind of work you REALLY want to do? This article, shared by one of our new coaches, Jason Suter, may help.

"a collection of ideas each teacher implemented to successfully break and/or work within the ban where they teach in an effort to empower students with the freedom to use their cell phones as personal learning devices. "

Article on a Wisconsin school that is just sticking their heads in the sand. If they don't see it, it must not be happening!

If you can use this - please do!

great teacher websites. In particular, good generators for all those checklists and what-nots that we are constantly making. (Found in listserv -- thanks to the person who posted...can't find it now...)

Note Taking Web 2.0 tool ~ Thanks to Cheryl Capozzoli for the Link

You can create group scrapbooks, travelogues, club websites, party invitations, and interactive, multimedia personal blogs, or even chat with a full plate of multimedia tools.

Royalty free stock photos. All images are free for commercial and personal use.

stinto offers you a comfortable, yet also easy to use chat, which you can create with one click and which will be deleted after a longer period of inactivity.

a simple chat service that does not require chat participants to register or create their own user name or password. To use Stinto one person establishes the chat and then invites others to join the chat by sharing the unique url for the chat.

Protect your personal laptop -- tracking software, for use in the event that your machine is stolen.

Student Response Network (SRN) is a powerful "virtual Clicker" student response system designed for use in school computer labs or with wireless laptop groups. It does away with the need for personal handheld "clicker" devices by providing a software-only solution for use with networked Windows desktops or laptops.

Stages of Personal Learning Networks Adoption

If you have a trained person on staff, you can hookup live to this Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope and control it from your classroom.

very cool real-world interactive science tool!

Free textures and images available to download.

Image*After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from this site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial.