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Jennie Bales

One Million Books and Counting: The Citywide Digital Library's Success Story in New Yor... - 0 views

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    "The project began in the summer of 2020 to create a collection of diverse and engaging digital books to support students and teachers navigating remote learning. By the end of 2021, NYC DOE students had borrowed more than one million ebooks and audiobooks. Jacobs had long advocated for increased student access to digital collections, but it was the pandemic-driven pivot to remote learning that presented the opportunity to launch the new initiative."
Jennie Bales

Digital Citizenship: Resource Roundup | Edutopia - 1 views

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    Edutopia's collection of articles, videos, and other resources on internet safety, cyberbullying, digital responsibility, and media and digital literacy.
Jennie Bales

Digital Literature stories | Mary Shelley, Digital Storytelling - Flipboard - 0 views

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    A collection of digital stories curated by Liz Derouet
Jennie Bales

Enter an Archive of 6,000 Historical Children's Books, All Digitized and Free to Read O... - 3 views

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    A digitised historical collection of children's books with options to read on different devices. A treatise on the relevance of children's literature as a source of historical and social commentary introduces the collection. Navigation to different forms of literature is across the top of the page.
Jennie Bales

UFDC - Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature - 0 views

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    A digital collection of historical children's literature titles that can be sorted by language, publisher, publication date ranges and various subject searches. The books have been digitised and can be read online.
Jennie Bales

Managing e-books and e-lending - 0 views

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    This presentation from the MANTLE conference 2014 by Pru Mitchell and Colleen Foley, NSW DEC highlights the possibilities and educational value of e-books and digital content for school libraries. It draws on an evidence base that includes research undertaken in NSW school libraries. It includes discussion of key issues involved in the management of e-books in schools, including areas such as Digital Rights Management (DRM), procurement, operations and lending and access.
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Libraries Lead The Way In A Post-Digital World | Indesignlive - 1 views

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    "The appearance of digital technology has transformed the way information is created, stored, accessed and used. Nevertheless, that process hasn't set back libraries at all."
Jennie Bales

Art Museum Learning Resources | Common Sense Education - 1 views

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    Digitized versions of world-class art and history collections.
Jennie Bales

Gutenberg - 2 views

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    Project Gutenberg offers over 57,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.
Jennie Bales

International Children's Digital Library | ICDL - 0 views

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    Collection of digitised books from around the world with a range of search features including age, genre language. Free access to read or sign up to create a personal library bookshelf.
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    Collection of digitised books from around the world with a range of search features including age, genre language. Free access to read or sign up to create a personal library bookshelf.
Jennie Bales

The place of non-fiction texts in today's primary school - 2 views

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    Historically, fiction texts have dominated classroom instruction and school library collections but there is a significant body of research that suggests the early engagement of primary students with quality non-fiction texts has a positive effect on literacy achievement, reading engagement and the ability to use the expository material students encounter in higher education.
Jennie Bales

TL Guides | Joyce Valenza - LibGuides Sandbox for Library Schools at Springshare - 1 views

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    Welcome to this Guide for Teacher Librarians! My goal is to aggregate some of the best resources and tools for today's practitioner. I welcome your suggestions.
Jennie Bales

Digital Tools for Teachers: Online Comics and Graphic Novels - 0 views

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    Here is a list of Online Graphic Novels and Comics. They vary from being read online or download as a pdf. With these comics you can use them for comprehension activities, use them as stimulus to give students ideas when they are making their own, you can also look at characters, setting and the plot of the comic.
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Banned Books Online - 1 views

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    Welcome to this special exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts. The books featured here, ranging from Ulysses to Little Red Riding Hood, have been selected from the indexes of The Online Books Page. (See that page for more than 2 million more online books!) This page is a work in progress, and more works may be added to this page over time. Please inform onlinebooks@pobox.upenn.edu of any new material that can be included here. Note that the listings are meant to be representative rather than exhaustive. Also, many recent books that have been banned or challenged have not been included here, because they have not been made freely readable online
Jennie Bales

11 Free Reading Websites for Kids - 1 views

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    "Free resources are always a teacher's dream, but when it comes to free sites to use during reading instruction the choices can be few and far between. Whether you are looking for a site to use during the Daily 5's "Listen to Reading" time or want to provide students with a fun early-finisher activity, the sites below are ideal. Designed for elementary age students, these reading sites are both free and kid-friendly."
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