Infolink Librarians

As you read through various definitions for dictionary most of the definitions include the word book as part of the definition. Yet, there is not question that online dictionaries abound. My preferred definition of dictionary as it relates to this post is…"a book [resource] giving information on particular subjects or on a particular class of words, names, or facts, usually arranged alphabetically: a biographical dictionary; a dictionary of mathematics."

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.

The mission of the International Children's Digital Library Foundation (ICDL Foundation) is to support the world's children in becoming effective members of the global community - who exhibit tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in children's literature available online free of charge. The Foundation pursues its vision by building a digital library of outstanding children's books from around the world and supporting communities of children and adults in exploring and using this literature through innovative technology designed in close partnership with children for children.

1865 free e-books in 392 catagories

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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.

This flash-based slide show covers the main points how external evidence is critical to establishing credibility, where to find it and how to use it. An interactive tutorial accompanies the presentation. This material is part of our 8-part Web Site Investigator (WSI) series that may be used directly by students for training in evaluation skills

An eBook From Atomic Learning: Seven Steps to Flatten Your Classroom

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.

How will you survive and thrive as social media changes our world? What are the best ways to use social media to succeed in our work, our lives and our future? "Content Nation" is a wide-ranging look at what makes social media tick, offering case studies and practical tips as to how we can conduct our business, our politics and our personal lives using social media and a look at how a future shaped by social media will be very different in many ways than the civilizations of the past several thousand years.

Good starting point for network building for librarians. How I wish I could get a local list going!!!!

A wondeful site filled with lots of reference resources calculators and more!!! Going onto my favourite list!

An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map.

Information Literacy is a transformational process in which the learner needs to find, understand, evaluate, and use information in various forms to create for personal, social or global purposes. Information Literacy shares a fundamental set of core thinking- and problem-solving meta-skills with other disciplines. Authentic cross-disciplinary problems which include observation and inference, analysis of symbols and models, comparison of perspectives, and assessment of the rhetorical context, engage students in developing mastery information literacy over time.

TEEM - Advice and guidance that teachers trust First in the field of educational software evaluation

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 a