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This Free Technology for Teachers posting provides links to teacher blogs discussion how they use backchannels in their elementary classroom.

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Gutenkarte downloads public domain texts from Project Gutenberg, and then feeds them to MetaCarta's GeoParser API, which extracts and returns all the geographic locations it can find. Gutenkarte stores these locations in a database, along with citations into the text itself, and offers an interface where the book can be browsed by chapter, by place, or all at once on an interactive map. Ultimately, Gutenkarte will offer the ability to annotate and correct the places in the database, so that the community will be able construct and share rich geographic views of Project Gutenberg's enormous body of literary classics.

Turn bookmarks and feeds into interactive slideshows, guided presentations and tutorials, virtual tours, and more.

The evolution of books on the iPad combining text, images, sound, video, interactivity and augmented reality. wow.

Google announces preview versions of the new Google document and spreadsheet editors and a new standalone drawings editor, all built with an even greater focus on speed and collaboration.

Create your own mobile textbooks with audio, images, video, and web links