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What if you weren't constrained by the old rules about textbooks? What if you could mix and match content for course packs from an ever-expanding content library along with your own materials and articles from the web? What if you could then distribute these new course materials in print or eBook, all while saving your students money? Well, now you can."

Finding books that kids will like can be a difficult task. Literature Map is a tool that might make that process easier. Literature Map provides a web of authors you might like based on authors that you already enjoy reading. To use Literature Map just type an author's name into the search box and webbed list of authors will be displayed. The authors' names closest to the author whose name you entered are the authors whose work you're most likely to enjoy.

As the web becomes more and more inundated with blogs, videos, tweets, status updates, news, articles, and countless other forms of content, "information overload" is something we all seem to suffer. It is becoming more difficult to weed through all the "stuff" out there and pluck out the best, most share-worthy tidbits of information, especially if your topic is niche.  Let's face it, Google definitely has its shortcomings when it comes to content curation and the more it tries to cater to all audiences, the less useful it becomes.

LAK11 - is an open course that will be offered from January 10 - February 20, 2011. LAK11 serves as an introduction to the growing field of analytics in teaching, learning, training, development, and organizational knowledge. LAK11 will address the following topics: Week 1 (Jan 10-16): Introduction to Learning and Knowledge Analytics Week 2 (Jan 17-23): Rise of "Big Data" and Data Scientists Week 3 (Jan 24-30): Semantic Web, Linked Data, & Intelligent Curriculum Week 4 (Jan 31-Feb 6): Visualization: Tools for, and examples of, Analytics Week 5 (Feb 7-13): Organizational implementation Week 6 (Feb 14-20): What's next for Learning & Knowledge Analytics?

Great collection of most search engines very nively laid out to explore the hidden web with!

"If you love to do research but don't have the degree or credentials to be truly called a scholar, then you probably fall into the category of a hobbyist scholar. This doesn't mean that you can't take advantage of the numerous resources for scholars online. They can help you with anything you might be interested in finding out more about, from science to your family genealogy"

"As information professionals, we live in very interesting times. Effective search and discovery over open and hidden digital resources on the Internet remains a problematic and challenging task. The difficulties are exacerbated by today's greatly distributed scholarly information landscape. This distributed information environment is populated by silos of: full-text repositories maintained by commercial and professional society publishers; preprint servers and Open Archive Initiative (OAI) provider sites; specialized Abstracting and Indexing (A & I) services; publisher and vendor vertical portals; local, regional, and national online catalogs; Web search and metasearch engines; local e-resource registries and digital content databases; campus institutional repository systems; and learning management systems."

Over 35000 online books to read!!!!

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work-in the web browser itself.

Andrew: "Hey guys-hope you are all doing well! I am just catching up with some mail and came across this awesome collection of "best practice" ideas from many school librarians on everything from growing readers to adapting the library to web 2.0 strategies and thinking."

Thanx Andrew

S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource that includes lesson plans, handouts, presentations, videos and other resources to enhance the teaching of information literacy.

"Use these strategies to help make sure that the Web sites you use are legitimate rather than a hoax (bogus)."

The Web offers valuable resources and advantages to students, teachers, and administrators-but it also has the potential to present dangers. The critical issue is how to balance the benefits of the Web with the legal and ethical challenges it presents. This eBook will guide districts as they create solutions for protecting students and data

Does the word Internet2 conjure images of a mythical realm off-limits to the masses of web-surfing plebeians? A forbidding place where computer engineers and the academic research elite speak in esoteric computer programming dialects and move terabytes of data through big pipes at the speed of light? At Horace Mann Elementary School in West Allis, Wis., Internet2 is helping transform the school library into the heart of digitally enabled innovation and learning. So what is the real Internet2, and why does it matter to K-12 schools and libraries? James Werle and Louis Fox have the answers!

Bookwink's mission is to inspire kids to read. Through podcasting and web video, they hope to connect kids in Grades 3 through 8 with books that will make them excited about reading. The videos are approximately 3 minutes long and are updated monthly. Each video booktalk is about a different topic, and additional read-alikes can be found on the Bookwink website. You can look for books by subject, grade level, author or title. They are constantly updating the book lists with our newest favorite books.