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At Bookboon.com you can download free books for students and travelers in PDF format. All the books can be downloaded without registration. Our ebooks are legal and written exclusively for Bookboon. They are financed by a few in-book ads.

The Net Generation has grown up with information technology. The aptitudes, attitudes, expectations, and learning styles of Net Gen students reflect the environment in which they were raised-one that is decidedly different from that which existed when faculty and administrators were growing up. This collection explores the Net Gen and the implications for institutions in areas such as teaching, service, learning space design, faculty development, and curriculum. Contributions by educators and students are included. Professional printing options are available.

Awesome Library organizes the Web with 37,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education. You can search according to different relevant catagories or as a teacher, parent, kid....

Google Squared is a search tool that helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web for any topic you specify. For instance: * Facts about your topic are organized as a table of items and attributes (we call them "Squares" for fun). * Customize these Squares to see just the items and attributes you're interested in. * See the websites that served as sources for the information in your Square. * Save and share Squares with others.

Benko provides the reader with a gentle guide through the dark forests of political advocacy on the Internet. A must read for anyone wishing to understand how the Internet is changing politics forever. ""

Hi everybody,

This group is the bookmaking group for our South African Infolinkers e-mail distribution group. The e-mail group is a moderated group (to keep e-mail spam out) but Joy is always on the ball, and can be found here: http://lists.school.za/mailman/listinfo/infolink

The main idea of THIS group is to harvest all the great links and resources shared via the e-mail list AND to make it easier for us to tag resources on the fly.

So please feel free to join and share links to all things "Library" All you have to do is to install the quick bookmarklet and just click on it when you identify a fantastic resource for librarians. You can also add a little description to put it into context for us and you can even create a list of resources for yourself of your favourite resources. We cna even have little discussions about each resource right here.

SO get stuck in!

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

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

This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for

Dié wiki word gedoen in samewerking met die Nuwe Geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika boek (Giliomee en Mbenga). Sedert Maart 2009 is daar 233 artikels geskep.

In my opinion, the ideal school library is highly liberating and able to provide a learning environment that's not generally feasible, practical, or even possible in most traditional classrooms. While there always seem to be exceptions to every rule, I think that our libraries should be comfortable, collaborative, open, social, connective, modern, clean, up-to-the-minute, and with shooshing not generally required.

YUDU is an ePublishing library and marketplace that lets you read, publish, buy, sell and share digital content. Find eBooks, magazines, and other documents as well as photos, music and podcasts and bookmarks and add them to your own library

A textbook editor responds to the call to 'Get Off Textbooks'.

"Today our kids get their information from the internet, downloaded onto their iPods, and in Twitter feeds to their cell phones ... So why are California's public school students still forced to lug around antiquated, heavy, expensive textbooks?"