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Our capacity to 'connect' will strengthen or weaken depending on our social network awareness and our capacity to use Web 2.0 tools to harness and organize information and add value to the collective.

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.

Web search can be a remarkable research tool for students - and we've heard from educators that they could use some help to teach better search skills in their classroom. The following Search Education lessons were developed by Google Certified Teachers to help you do just that. The lessons are short, modular and not specific to any discipline so you can mix and match to what best fits the needs of your classroom. Additionally, all lessons come with a companion set of slides (and some with additional resources) to help you guide your in-class discussions.

"The World Digital Library hosts more than 10,000 primary documents and images from collections around the world. Sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the mission of the World Digital Library is to promote the study and understanding of cultures. The WDL can be searched by date, era, country, continent, topic, and type of resource. In my search of the WDL I noticed that roughly half of the resources are historical maps and images. The WDL aims to be accessible to as many people as possible by providing search tools and content descriptions in seven languages. The WDL can also be searched by clicking through the map on the homepage."

Convert your files to various ebook formats, including industry standard ePub. Right in your browser you can easily convert PDF to ePub, DOC to ePub, MOBI, LIT, LRF to ePub and many more. 2EPUB is 100% free online ebook converter. Input formats: doc, docx, epub, fb2, html, lit, lrf, mobi, odt, pdb, pdf, prc, rtf, txt. Output formats: epub, fb2, lit, lrf, mobi

Thanx Andrew 4 this one

Whether you are downloading ebooks, gadget manuals, research papers or your monthly bank statements, chances are that all these documents are available as Adobe PDF files. That's because PDF is probably the only format that can retain the original formatting and can be read across all platforms or even on the web if you don't want to install any desktop software for reading PDFs.

Today's emerging technologies make it imperative that teachers establish clear policies regarding the appropriate use of copyrighted materials and educate their learners about the application of copyright law in school projects. The online Fair Use Ana

A very interesting new site that allows you to create a library of publications of all sorts. You can then embed it and it is very visual.

It enables you to compare different subscription online resources, making it easier for librarians to make informed decisions when subscribing to online resources. Although it is aimed at HE it is free to use for anyone.

Great overview site for web 2.0