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When is it cheating? When is it collaboration? This thoughtful article from Common Sense Media provides fine advice for parents (or teachers) on how to talk to kids about digital media and ethics.  

Xlibris provides a book publishing guide to writers and authors on how to publish a book through self publishing in UK, and offers print on demand services.

"7 New Tools for Mind Maps" How does Richard do it? These are all new to me and I can't wait to check them out.

if you had doubts about the chance to engage more kids with eReaders, this infographic might change your mind. I am planning a digital reading course next year, and will use this to argue my case to administration

This graphic is nice ... but who conducted the study? How was this information gathered? Why should we trust it?

analysis of impact of reading, novel especially. validates focus on class SSR, even in 11-12th grade (my groups)

Limousines for special events such as a wedding, graduation, and anniversary has become very common of late.

How to integrate all the tools into a classroom setting

quick video tutorial showing how easy it is to create portfolios using Google Sites.

Excellent summary with useful headers of the latest key ideas from brain research and how they apply to classroom instruction.

tips on how to use blogging with students

Great article about the inner lives of girls and how that relates to reading, especially the Twilight series

Jeff Utecht describes how you can use Goodreads to track students' independent reading.

Hmmm..... an object lesson in how not to use sources.

"Studio 360 explores F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and finds out how this compact novel became the great American story of our age. Novelist Jonathan Franzen tells Kurt Andersen why he still reads it every year or two, and writer Patricia Hampl explains why its lightness is deceptive. We'll drive around the tony Long Island suburbs where Gatsby was set, and we'll hear from Andrew Lauren about his film G, which sets Gatsby among the hip-hop moguls. And Azar Nafisi describes the power of teaching the book to university students in Tehran. Readings come courtesy of Scott Shepherd, an actor who sometimes performs the entire book from memory."

One stop for teachers looking for tech tools. Click on Edutech.TV, and many of these tools have how-to videos. Nice.