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iBala aims to: Raise awareness of Mobile-technologies within the Library and information services profession To create a platform for libraries ranging from academic, special to public libraries To share experiences and investigate new possibilities within the ever changing M-technologies environment To identify experts, leaders, innovators and to create a national voice with the Library and Information Services professio

"Finding good quality websites for kids is a bit of a challenge. That's why I was delighted to find this site chock full of great sites and learning resources for children. The site is sponsored by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association. Animals, Art, Sciences, and Reference sections are some of what you'll find there. I really liked the Reference section, but all other segments have great content."

"Library of Resources Access a free library of standards-aligned resources to differentiate instruction for individual students. Learn More Student Ownership Students access and submit work, track progress, and solicit feedback from teachers all in one place."

A point-of-sale document library. If you are a copy shop, school or NGO with a printer, you can be a print-on-demand bookstore.

Five great sites that you can use to spice up your technology tool library.

TED-Ed's mission is to capture and amplify the voices of great educators around the world. We do this by pairing extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of curiosity-igniting videos.

"IMSA Full Circle Resource Kits are used by thousands of teachers, librarians and technology coordinators to train today's students in critical 21st Century research skills. Each Kit is packed with articles, curriculum, learning games and assessment tools for strengthening information fluency. Applications include staff development, library orientation, diagnosing students' needs and curriculum integration for elementary grades through college. Kit resources are free."

"The situation: You've just been given your first 15-page college research paper assignment. Your professor wants you to use books and scholarly journals in writing your paper, and doesn't want you to rely solely on Google and Wikipedia to do the research. What do you do? You could call your parents or ask advice from a friend. But a far better idea would be to follow these 10 best tips, offered by visiting blogger Cheryl LaGuardia, research librarian at Harvard University's Widener Library"

"Amazon just opened its free library of open-education resources, called Amazon Inspire. Anyone with an Amazon account can now see the collection and download resources, but the Share feature is turned off, with a "coming soon!" label next to it. Letting any teacher share their teaching materials is a key promise of the service, but it is also one that sparked controversy last year, after several people uploaded materials without the permission of the authors. The copyright violations prompted complaints by teachers, and led Amazon to quickly take down the pirated content and promise to put a better review system in place."

This is where I keep ALL the amazing stuff that are shared with me or that I want to filter from the internet.

As part of Search Education, Google has shared a bunch of lesson plans that are organized by degree of difficulty. So, if you consider yourself and / or your students Google experts, you should try out the more advanced plans. If you don't know what 'boolean' means, then you probably should start with the more basic stuff.