1909 footage of the Wright brothers flight

GirlTalk Radio is an innovative program of the Girls, Math & Science Partnership. GirlTalk is a mentoring initiative that encourages girls to explore science, math, engineering and technology - in their own words. GirlTalk Radio consists of a series of interviews with women scientists, conducted by girls ages 11 - 16, making their debuts as Pittsburgh radio hosts!

an awesome collection of free clipart

OK - this is just the coolest site - a collection of essays by authors about how they came up with their big ideas... mostly science and sicence fiction - no wonder as the blog author is a Creative Consultant on Stargate Universe.

this vintage footage from the 1930s, shows Keller in the flesh and how she learned to talk

There's no sound, and the clip only runs 20 seconds. But this is the only known footage of Anne Frank, and it's now onlin

The world according to John Irving. Times are tougher for young writers. But the book isn't going - a short interview with John Irving

''Really cool widgets to add to your library page. "To embed the Peek Inside the Book Widget, Hunger Games Audio Files, or the Catching Fire Trailer into your website or blog, select all the code in the box underneath each, then copy the code and paste it into your website or blog."

the author's page on Facebook

This is an amazing assignment! "One of our grade 7 Humanities teachers, Dan McWilliam, just finished a project with his grade 7 students. In order to understand the concept of perspective in historical accounts, Dan had his students re-write a 'picture book' on colonialization from an alternate perspective."

LoudLit.org is committed to delivering public domain literature paired with high quality audio performances. We pair together great literature and accompanying audio. Putting the text and audio together, readers can learn spelling, punctuation and paragraph structure by listening and reading masterpieces of the written word. Read and listen via your web browser or on your mp3 player. Regardless of how you enjoy the audiobooks (audio books), they are free.

"I really appreciate it when publishers back up their titles with solid, easily accessible teaching resources. With that in mind, I've listed some publishers which I feel really "knock it out of the park" with their online resources for teachers."

a very cool way to use VoiceThread to have conversations around books

The Exquisite Prompt is a series of monthly writing challenges designed as a classroom activity for kids in grades K-12. Teachers can engage their students by selecting just one of the monthly challenges or try a new challenge every month.

A Native American review of the book... would you still purchase the book for your collection?

The Complete National Geographic on 6 DVD-ROMs - worth replacing those many individual issues on library shelves?

I love the idea of creating a media manifesto that would guide our work in the division libraries.

We want to help book lovers choose which books to read. We want to help students understand which works were the most influential for specific figures as well as for generations as a whole. We want to help parents buy their children the same books that touched the lives of important people in the past. We want to provide young people with one more role-modeling tool, so that they can imitate, through reading, the famous people they most love.

A wonderful blog about books, reading and school libraries by a teacher-librarian in a dual-track French-English elementary school. She had been teaching for 11 years.

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