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Authors--interview authors via Skype for free!

Lots of interesting stuff here--videos of authors, authors' reading books and more. Much to enrich teaching.

Connect your students to their favorite authors via live Skype chat.

yAuthor.com is an on-line service with authoring tools allowing authors to create professionally looking interactive content easily.

This will be a nice feature for those having created ePub books and want to import them into iBooks Author.

Just One More Book is a thrice-weekly podcast which promotes and celebrates literacy and great children's books. Each weekday morning, we take a few minutes out of our morning coffee ritual to discuss one of our many favourite children's books. We also feature weekly interviews with authors, illustrators and experts and enthusiasts in the areas of children's literature and literacy as well as listener-submitted audio reviews.

MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and join movies. MPEG Streamclip can also download videos from YouTube and Google by entering the page URL. You can use MPEG Streamclip to open and play most movie formats including MPEG files or transport streams; edit them with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Trim; set In/Out points and convert them into muxed or demuxed files, or export them to QuickTime, AVI, DV and MPEG-4 files with more than professional quality, so you can easily import them in a DVD authoring tool, and use them with many other applications or devices. Supported input formats: MPEG, VOB, PS, M2P, MOD, VRO, DAT, MOV, DV, AVI, MP4, TS, M2T, MMV, REC, VID, AVR, M2V, M1V, MPV, AIFF, M1A, MP2, MPA, AC3, ...

Here is another site for finding authors to visit with your students virtually.

A Simple Guide for Teachers to Create eBooks on iPad using iBook Author http://t.co/tjMQfC8d via @zite

National Savings Certificate, popularly known as NSC is a long term savings option for Indian citizens. These are issued by the Government of India and are available at all authorized Post Offices across the countries.

An online art project developed by Google, this site is a place for digital storytelling through pictures, not words. Students can work collaboratively to create a short animated story, with each animation building off the previous branches. Students can create their own seeds & invite others to grow a tree with them. Before students can create their own seeds, they do have to contribute to an already existing tree. If a student does not feel they can express their words with an animation, think about having the students pair up. Have one student become an author & write an outline of the story, while the other student draws the animation of the story.

Peter Sheahan is a successful author, speaker, thought leader, and entrepreneur. He introduced unorthodox business approaches and led business people to think outside of the box. He painstakingly tells people about his liberating business methods through his books-he's written six and two of them became bestsellers-and ChangeLabs, the company he founded when he was 19.

We are the stories that we tell and it is the stories we share which unite us. This was the seed of an idea planted by a day with author, artist, musician and story teller Boori Pryor. Understanding the power that our stories have allows us to better value their role in our lives, to see them as more than recounts of the past or imaginings of the future. Stories should be viewed as the powerful agents that they are with the force to shape who we are as much as we shape them.

This article will get you thinking about the iPad as or not as a creation device.  The author does provide points that make you think twice. 

Joel Scott Osteen is a pastor, author and television host who leads America's largest Christian congregation, Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. Through his weekly broadcasts that reach more than ten million people in over one hundred nations across the world, Joel has become a very significant and inspirational part of the lives of the millions of viewers who eagerly wait to see his program every week.

Stan Lee co-created the Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Iron Man and Spider-Man among many others. He redefined the comic book industry and pushed for the Comics Code Authority to reform its policies. Stan Lee made a respectable career out of being a comic book writer by making his characters imperfect so that readers could relate to them more easily. His Stan Lee Foundation focuses to increase literacy and aids under-privileged kids get quality education.

Rabia Siddique is the author of "Equal Justice," a memoir of her stint in the British Army where she fought for and against the system. As a British Army lawyer, an attractive one at that, Rabia's life has been a paradox. While she's been commissioned to become the system's face for equal opportunities in the army, she's been a victim of politicking. But Rabia wouldn't have any of that. She stood up and fought the battle against the very institution she has faithfully served. The British Army settled and her role in the rescue of the two soldiers was acknowledged.