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Thank you SO much for sharing this with the Diigo group.

"Lexile measures are powerful, versatile tools that educators can use to help their students grow as readers. When you use both Lexile reader measures and Lexile text measures, you can treat each student as an individual learner, rather than as below-grade, on-grade or above-grade. Site includes a "find a book" feature which allows you to search a book by title or author and find out the lexile level. There is a conversion chart on the site which will give you a guide to the approximate grade level equivalents as well. Here are some classroom ideas and applications to help you differentiate instruction for all readers in various situations."

Pinterest group that features favorite young adult novels that have been pinned. Request a free invitation and begin pinning your favorites so all can enjoy.

You will work in pairs develop a commercial for the database you are assigned. Most are available off our Catalogs and Databases page. As you examine the database, record any relevant information in the organizer shown below. Please use the glossary if you are unfamiliar with any terms.

"Welcome to Shelfari! Shelfari is a community-powered encyclopedia for book lovers. Create a virtual bookshelf, discover new books, connect with friends and learn more about your favorite books - all for free."

Download background music for your videos for FREE!

Keep this one handy for your Google Earth sessions with teachers.

"The Karpeles Libraryis the world's largest private holding of important original manuscripts & documents.The archives include Literature, Science, Religion,History and Art. Among the treasures are .... "The original draft of the Bill of Rights of the United States", The original manuscript of " The Wedding March", Einstein's description of his " Theory of Relativity", The " Thanksgiving Proclamation" signed by George Washington, Roget's " Thesaurus", Webster's " Dictionary" and over one million more."

Your Next Read is a neat little site that provides you with a web of book recommendations based on the authors and books you already like. Here's how it works; type in the title of a book you like or author you like and Your Next Read will provide you with a web of books that might also enjoy. Click on any of the books appearing the web to create another new web. Below you'll see the web of recommendations that appeared when I typed in Gary Paulsen's book Hatchet.

"Sets of selected primary sources on specific topics, available as easy-to-print PDFs. Also, background material and tools to guide student analysis."

The Freedom Tower Rises is a New York Times video on the rebuilding at the site.

Set of primary source documents for Constitution Day

"Many examples of how educators are using Google Earth are documented on the web. Following are some of those examples, and some articles. "

"Designed by educators for educators, Sakai is an enterprise teaching, learning and academic collaboration platform that best meets the needs of today's learners, instructors and researchers."

Shared today on Twitter, written by our own Joyce Valenza. Forward this to YOUR librarian. NOW!

Wes Fryer describes how Wikipedia suggests citations for Wikipedia entries