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Search a wide variety of social media all in one spot. "Mashpedia presents an organized mashup of results from Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Google News, Books, Blog Posts, and further contextual information, thus providing a quick, practical outlook for every topic. "

This would be a great addition to the school library page for any classes - middle years and up that do current events.

book tie-ins to the new movie

Google Wonder Wheel; Google Timeline; Google News Archive Search

Let's face it: the library, as a place, is dead," said Suzanne E. Thorin, dean of libraries at Syracuse University. "Kaput. Finito.

Here you will find original and classic children's audio stories. Every other week, The Story Home will offer a brand new story read to you by a very special storyteller named Alan, for FREE!

How is it possible to count a complicated pattern of strawberry seeds or grapes on a vine or camel humps--in a blink of an eye? If children can open their minds to new ways of perceiving math, anything is possible! Greg Tang shows readers creative ways to use patterns and combinations of numbers to solve math puzzles quickly and effectively.

a hilarious plug for libraries based on the Old Spice commercial

"the act of reaching for that almanac, encyclopedia or dictionary in a local library may soon become a thing of the past, as several Toronto libraries move to reduce their print reference collections."

"Best known for publishing popular study guides like the For Dummies series and CliffNotes, science and educational publisher John Wiley & Sons has paired Shakespeare with manga-style artwork in an effort to make the Bard more accessible to younger readers. Wiley will release manga adaptations of four Shakespeare plays--Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth and Julius Caesar--in February in a tankoubon, graphic novel book-format."

"The reading revolution is starting to hit home How does the medium - print or electronic - change the way our children experience books?"

an overview about and how to use Global Issues in Context

you could use this video at a staff meeting to demonstrate all the features of Global Issues in Context

"But the physical book is going the way of the vinyl record, and the roll of film and the phone with cord. If you're sad about that, be happy for the forests. Frankly, about the only downside I can see to the e-book is that, if you drop your e-reader in the bathtub, it won't dry out."

Just as true audiophiles still use vinyl, true bibliophile will stand by the paper book. There will be a place for the paper book with collectors and connoisseurs and therefore the opportunity for those in the hoi ploi to discover the delights of such rich and traditional materials. The book is not dead it will go back to its medieval roots of exclusivity.

Barb - I do agree with you. There will always be the Jean Luc Picards who prefer the printed book. I just think that we cannot equate the demise of the paper book with the demise or reading and the love of story. No matter the format of the text these things will never die.

Filmmaker Neil Diamond casts a critical eye on Hollywood's depiction of native people

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.

Offers effective teaching strategies, activities, lessons, lesson plans, worksheets, exercises, skills, tests, assessments for reading comprehension, language arts, literacy, fluency, phonics and phonemic awareness for children, especially those with dyslexia and other reading difficulties.

A website for teachers that contains a variety of lesson plans used to launch mathematical investigations. We invite you to use your mathematical eye to look at texts in new ways while helping your students to develop critical reading and problem solving skills.

2009 Top ten challenged books

"The word "rebel" is so overused and misused in our culture that it seems pat and tired to apply it to J.D. Salinger. Yet, I can think of few prominent contemporary arts figures who actually deserve that label as much as he did."

The list where I found FREE access to Opposing Viewpoints