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Maggie Verster

The Story Home Children's Audio Stories-FREE Podcast Stories for Kids and Family, Origi... - 0 views

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    Is a collection of classic and original children's audio stories. Every other week a new story is added by storyteller Alan. All audio stories are FREE!! The stories can be listened to right from The Story Home website or by subscribing to The Story Home on iTunes.
Maggie Verster

Story Something: Create personalized children's stories instantly. - 0 views

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    "Create personalized children's stories instantly.Turn any time into story time. It's free. Add the details about your children and family -- what do your kids call Mom? Dad? Grandma? Have new personalized stories based on your child's age and interests delivered to you automagically."
Maggie Verster

Inanimate Alice - great story resource (Ep 1 is in afrikaans) - 0 views

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    'Inanimate Alice' tells the story of Alice, a young girl growing up in the first half of the 21st century, and her imaginary digital friend, Brad. Over ten episodes, each a self contained story, we see Alice grow from an eight year old living with her parents in a remote region of Northern China to a talented mid-twenties animator and designer with the biggest games company in the world.
Maggie Verster

Kontax: a mobile phone novel for teens- Join in! - 0 views

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    Kontax is a story on your cellphone. It's also a social network of readers. Every day you'll get a new chapter. Read the story, meet the characters, vote, leave comments and write your idea for a sequel. Win prizes for the best comments and ideas.
Maggie Verster

Digital Storytelling - 0 views

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    Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. Digital stories derive their power by weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and vivid color to characters, situations, experiences, and insights. Tell your story now digitally. - Leslie Rule, Digital Storytelling Association
Maggie Verster

Storyline Online - online story streaming. Cool - 0 views

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    Listen and watch stories being read. Lovely friendly site and it comes with activities and guides. Cool
Maggie Verster

Lots of free Online Books, Poems, Short Stories at Read Print - 0 views

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    Free online library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. Absolutely FREE books Thousands of novels, poems, stories Easy to read books online. Over 8,000 books by 3,500 famous authors at your fingertips!
Maggie Verster

Kids' Stories, Songs, Games, Educational Activities for Children - 0 views

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    Speakaboos brings classic children's entertainment into a digital world. Beloved characters and treasured stories are given new life through amazing celebrity performances, beautiful illustrations, and original music. At Speakaboos, children develop literacy skills while learning about technology in a safe and fun environment.
Maggie Verster

Awesome Stories - 0 views

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    Enjoy these great stories as you see thousands of hand-selected and relevant pictures, slide-shows, videos, audio-clips, documents and other primary sources linked, in context, where you need them. Thanx Andrew...
Maggie Verster

The Best New Children's Books from Esme's Shelf: THE BOOK WHISPERER (RESOURCE) - 0 views

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    I hope this book-a-day plan will be a boon to anyone who would like to play a supporting character in a child's reading life story. This blog is a supporting page to sister site PlanetEsme.com , where you will find a silly amount of additional reviews, thematic lists, links, and much more...everything you need to become an expert in children's literature.
Maggie Verster

Teen non fixtion of ther week (a lovely read) - 0 views

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    A lovely post ("short" story) by a teen) worth a read
Maggie Verster

Myths and Legends storybook creator. - 0 views

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    Welcome to Myths and Legends. This site is for pupils, teachers and all those who enjoy stories and storytelling.
Maggie Verster

WebTools4u2use -A wiki for school library media specialists to learn about - 0 views

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    A wiki for school library media specialists to learn about cool new web tools, see how they can be used in school library media programs, and share ideas & success stories.
Maggie Verster

Digital School Library Leaves Book Stacks Behind - 0 views

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    This school did away with a traditional library and opted for a complete digital experience for their learners.
Maggie Verster

Read free books online * Short stories * Poems * Novels * And more... - 0 views

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    Read more than 26520 books online for free...
Fabian Aguilar

Resistance to Google book deal builds as Google woos Europe - Ars Technica - 0 views

  • Last Friday, the deadline passed for formal comments from parties interested in the Google Book Settlement, but the flow of less-formal comments doesn't seem to have abated.
  • This week, however, the focus has shifted to Europe, where Google has faced opposition from France and Germany that has prompted it to offer some concessions to local publishers.
  • First, we'll follow the action stateside, where Friday's deadline set off a flurry of filings.
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  • The Free Software Foundation was among those that filed an objection, this one focused on licensing issues. Because of the nature of the suit, the settlement focused on copyrighted works, but the works scanned by Google may (now, or in the future) include those covered by the FSF's GNU Free Document License. 
  • "If the Settlement is approved, Google will be authorized to continue to digitize, sell and partially display books without complying with the 'copyleft' and 'share alike' license terms which are essential to the freedom granted by these licenses."
  • But it's not just US copyright law that's being trampled on, according to Consumer Watchdog; the settlement also conflicts with international copyright agreements.
  • The group isn't alone in thinking that; European publishers have been leery of the deal, and action shifted to Brussels this week, where the European Commission has been holding hearings on the settlement.
  • Other Commissioners seem determined to use it as a launching point for a more general attempt to deal with related issues, like the modernization of copyright law to handle digital content and the digitization of works in European libraries
  • According to various reports, two countries (France and Germany) have already decided that they will oppose the deal.
  • Google seems to have come to the hearings well prepared, with some significant concessions to hand to the Commission: books that are out of print in the US but still published in Europe won't be licensed to the Books Rights Registry. The Registry would also pick up two European representatives, one an author, one a publisher.
  • At the same time, the Commissioners note that only one percent of the works in European libraries have been digitized to date, leaving the continent at risk of lagging in an effort that ultimate should improve public access to significant cultural material.
  • One of those consumer interests is undoubtedly privacy, given the potentially personal nature of a person's reading habits.
  • ere, the story jumps back to this side of the Atlantic, where the US' Federal Trade Commission has been hashing out privacy issues with Google
  • Although nothing formal has been decided yet, Google issued a formal privacy policy and FAQ that lays out the privacy protections it affords users of its current book service, and details the features that will be used for book sales if the settlement is approved. Basically, Google will keep personal information in-house, and only share information, such as lists of favorite books, if a user specifically opts in.
  • But, if Google was hoping to keep privacy issues separate from the objections to the book settlement, a coalition of privacy advocates had an unpleasant surprise for it. The ACLU and EFF organized a coalition of authors that have dealt with privacy concerns to file a brief as members of the class of rightsholders involved in the settlement.
  • The gist of the complaint is that the settlement will leave Google in a position where it could track users' reading habits, but does nothing to ensure that it won't. "The Settlement includes no limitations on collection and use of reader information and no privacy standards for retention, modification, deletion or disclosure of that information to third parties or the government," the filing reads.
  • The filing actually was modified in time to reflect Google's privacy policy statement, and it notes that there's nothing binding about these rules; Google can change them at will in the future. Obviously, the coalition would like to see something binding written into the agreement.
  • It's obvious that the concerns about, and outright resistance to, the original settlement have been extensive, and Google is willing to make some significant concessions to try to get the deal to go through. What's less obvious is whether these concessions will be formally made part of the legal settlement and, if so, whether outside parties will have another opportunity to comment on the revisions. The scheduled decision is now less than a month away, but it looks like it's going to be an extremely busy month for everyone involved.
Maggie Verster

Give me a reason to go to the library (great read) - 0 views

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    A teenagers view of what the library mean to her....a must read
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