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An annotated list of web tools that teachers can use with their students to create books.

"Points of View is a collection of previously-unpublished essays written to celebrate Alan Kay's 70th birthday. Twenty-nine luminaries from diverse disciplines contributed original material for this book. "

Recently I began to buy eBooks for the Kindle application on my iPad. While I still love paper books, the digital wiles of eBooks are looking increasingly attractive to me. Below are five eBook features that may tempt you to buy electronic books too.

Blog for the new book Mobile Learning Edge by Gary Woodill. See also his personal blog http://www.garywoodill.com/ This 2010 book describes the ways to use mobile for learning content delivery.

This is a timeline of picture books. Great resource and discussion starter for teachers and students.

The authors of this book describe a path, a process, a model that they think will take educational systems to a high functioning and powerful transformation.

Use this site to create, read, and share engaging digital books that build reading skills for students. Your universally designed books will engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills.

"It decided so few students were now borrowing books that it would prefer to ditch the whole collection than bother with its upkeep. Good get for the charity, but I think the students have been ripped off."

Creating an iBooks 2 book with 3D models, Dashcode widgets and interactive Keynote files. Create a Seller account, buy an ISBN, use iTunes Producer to manage your content and track sales using Connect. Download the sample "Kids Love Bugs" here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/dr.-kemps-kids-love-bugs/id497852225

Booktype is a free, open source platform that produces beautiful, engaging books formatted for print, Amazon, iBooks and almost any ereader within minutes. Create books on your own or with others via an easy-to-use web interface. Build a community around your content with social tools and use the reach of mobile, tablet and ebook technology to engage new audiences.

Baker lets you publishing rich, interactive books on App Store that can be used for the iphone and ipad. Build your book using HTML5 pages prepared for the iPad and iPhone screen

A digital copy of Danah Boyd's new book on social lives of teens.

"A Guide to the iPad in Primary Education is breakdown of how the iPad can be used successfully as both a learning tool for pupils and a teaching aid. With so many Primary Schools now equipping their teachers and students with iPads, more and more apps and resources are becoming available. This guide presents apps and techniques that have been used successfully in the Primary classroom. The book is divided into subject areas for quick reference, including Literacy, Numeracy, Science and Early Years Foundation Stage. Includes over 100 apps and techniques that will enhance lessons. "

Each chapter carefully explains how to use WP to setup a specific functional site, i.e. real estate listings, subscriber site, classified ad site and so. Detailed descriptions of plugins for each type of site. Packt Publishing Technical & IT Book Store. Ebook is about $27.

"A vook (rhymes with "book") is an enhanced digital book that blends text with audio, full-color video and links to the Internet and social media that complement the written word and add context. Vooks can be accessed through the Web or with an application download for the iPhone and iTouch, and soon the iPad."

Create a PDF from your blog posts. "BlogBooker produces a high-quality PDF Blog Book from all your blog's entries and comments. Archives can be generated from any blog running on WordPress, LiveJournal (and derivatives) or Blogger."

Huffington Post recently put up a story called You're Out: 20 Things That Became Obsolete This Decade. It's a great retrospective on the technology leaps we've made since the new century began, and it got me thinking about the difference today's technology will make in the lives of tomorrow's

"This video was produced as a contribution to the EDUCAUSE book, The Tower and the Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing, edited by Richard Katz and available as an e-Book at http://www.educause.edu/thetowerandthecloud or commercially at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0967285399/ref=kinw_rke_rti_1 Produced in 2007 as a conversation starter in small groups. Released in 2011 as a conversation starter online."

"I've been reading snippets of Eli Pariser's book, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You. He leads off the book with a discussion of the effect of Google's "personalization" feature on the ranking of search results. This feature uses 54 signals (what browser version you're using, your prior searches, geographic location, and so on) to customize search results for each user. Pariser was concerned about this and tested it by asking two friends to run the same search at the same time and comparing the results. He found that the results were disturbingly different, and concluded that search engines are "increasingly biased to share our own views. More and more, your computer monitor is a kind of one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.""

The most dreaded word in school reading for students: book reports. Teachers assign them, viewing them as a necessary component of assessing reading co