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"As schools seek to use digital books knowing where to find the book you are looking for is critically important. Here is a complete list of all the eBooks directories and search engine on the web provided recently by  www.geckoandfly.com. Gaining legal access to free books will benefit those on a tight budget. "The list compiled below is not the place for links to sites hosting illegal copyrighted content such as torrent! They are collected from various Wikipedia articles, eBook seller websites like Kobo, Nook, Google eBook Store, Amazon eBook, Self publishing authors, public domain books with expired copyright and Universities website, thus most eBooks are classical. Public domain books are more often than not published 30 to 50 years ago where the copyright has expired.""

IT'S been over a year now since I removed an interactive whiteboard (IWB) from a classroom wall for the first time. Yes, you read that right: removed. And not to put another one up. In fact, what went in its place was a good old-fashioned non-interactive whiteboard - the same sort we tore down just two years earlier. I had a little moment when the workers came in and started to take IWBs down off our school walls, where I thought 'Am I really doing this?'

Ideas for progress toward reforming public education, innovative uses of technology in the classroom and making school an authentic and meaningful experience.

"Creating books on the iPad doesn't seem like the first thing you might do with one of the popular little tablets, but it's really quite capable of doing so provided you're not trying to write the next great novel. We've written about 3 apps to reate books on the iPad in the past, but the following listly by Meg Wilson goes further, including 15 apps to do so. The artful collision of technology, learning, and literacy is an idea promoted in the Common Core Standards, which is likely your rule book if you teach K-12 in an American public school. This is a new age of literacy where students can read, research, write, publish, and socialize on the same device sitting right in their lap with a pinch-and-zoom elegance that somehow makes the whole process seem easier than it really is. And for those of you that rail against both Common Core and the iPad (but obviously not literacy), keep fighting the good fight. 15 Literacy Apps To Create Books On The iPad"