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Books are a great gift and now is the perfect time for parents and teachers to stock up with Internet only special sale pricing discounts for their family or school. Whether you have pre-readers, beginning readers or advanced readers, you will find a broad selection of age and skill appropriate learning-based books from which to select that children love. Search for educational books (fiction, classics and non-fiction) by age, topics, Accelerated Reader, popularity and more… Stock up for your students, children, friends, relatives and classroom. Teenage boys love reading with the new Conspiracy 365 series (12 books in 12 months).

"LearnOutLoud.com has scoured the Internet to bring you over 2000 free audio and video titles. This directory features free audio books, lectures, speeches, sermons, interviews, and many other great free audio and video resources. Most audio titles can be downloaded in digital formats such as MP3 and most video titles are available to stream online. Enjoy!"

Simply drag some of your subscriptions -- or even folders -- to your bundle, add a title and description, and click "Save". Just like Reader's other sharing features, bundles you create can be automatically shared with your Reader friends. You can also email your bundles or post them to your blog. You can even browse all of your friends' bundles -- who knows, maybe one of your buddies is actually an expert in gluten-free cooking.

Nearly 7000 tweets and almost 1000 Twitterers later, Educon has come to a close. I had the pleasure of following virtually via the Elluminate rooms SLA had set up and by following the #educon hashtag in my Tweetdeck panel. It was great for those of us that were unable to attend in person and we thank SLA for setting this up for us.

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A new course at Columbia University's Teachers College looks at cell phones not as a classroom distraction, but a tool. NY1's Education reporter Lindsey Christ filed the following report.

Visualize tweets from Twitter using all Twitter search operators. Great as side screen back channel for conferences. Attractive Loving the idea of using this to elicit multiple viewpoints.

Unfortunately, there is no iPhoto for Windows computers. However, there are some great free alternatives like Picasa, and the Windows Live Photo Gallery, that will make you forget about an iPhoto for Windows in no time.

iMovie is a powerful, yet simple to use, video editor for Apple computers. Unfortunately, it is only available for Macs. There are, however, some great Windows programs that offer just as many features, and are equally intuitive. This article explores the best alternatives to iMovie for PC users.

A great collection of keyboarding games for kids

"Learn all the components of creating your own online Moodle course! Moodle is an open source online learning management system that allows teachers to create content that can be accessed online by their students. Many educators are using online tools to enhance the learning environment in their classroom. Moodle is a great solution for getting your classes into an online learning environment that you can design and modify. "

I think it's unfortunate that you are selling a resource for free/open source educational software. The beauty of Moodle is it's comprehensive online resources in addition to its accesibility for relative novice to advanced users. Making money off the volunteer work of others is not ethical and I fear that continued practices will cause such readily available resources to go commercial.

I am not selling the software. I am helping K-12 teachers implement its use in the classroom. If you have done as much professional development as I have with K-12 teachers you will know that the resources available online are not adequate for your average classroom teacher. Believe me, the little bit I may make with my book will not encourage Moodle to be a commercial venture. Believe it or not there are other books written on Moodle. Do a search on Amazon.com and you'll find many more Moodle books.

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Brain training games are a great way to promote higher level thinking skills in students, but finding the right activities to practice these skills can be difficult. Here are 5 of the best.

Great for character studies or history recaps, Facebook style.

Great word list and free online games for the first week of school

A really great resource. Not all are new, but it's always good to be reminded of stuff!

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"Make stop-motion films with a web-cam or a bunch of photos. No fancy features yet, but great for starting off or mucking about. FREE."

Try these awesome preschool apps for a great educational experience on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

In celebration of the first wave of Chromebooks being released today, now is a great time to start looking for replacements for the tools you can't live without on a day to day basis. Code editors, image editors, games? All of these can be replaced! I'll show you the best choices today.