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an awesome collection of free clipart

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!

1909 footage of the Wright brothers flight

Become a Facebook Freedom to Read Fan

This selective list provides information on more than 100 books and some magazines that have been challenged in the past decades. Each challenge sought to limit public access to the books and magazines in schools, libraries, or bookstores. Some challenges were upheld; others were rejected.

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

Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.

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.

50 Educational Apps for the iPod Touch

What a great way to read a book..... As our English 10 class picked up their Kite Runner books for the first time this semester, I mentioned that we had a "friend in Afghanistan" who was eagerly awaiting their questions and comments. About five hands went up immediately. "Who is it?" "How do you know him?" And of course, "Why does he care about our class?"

a small but growing collection of digital book talks - trailers of popular and classic young adult novels.

this is the best overview of social bookmarking that I have yet seen - comprehensive but readable. Meant for students it could easily be used with teachers and would make an excellent professional development experience. It provides a well defined way in which researchers can effectively use social bookmarking and annotation by taking on specific roles.

links to 21 author sites

this is the web page for Jackie French, author of Diary of a Wombat and How to Scratch a Wombat (among others). We started reading some books by her for our grade 4 language arts, and she is a definite class favorite!

What should I read next? Type in a title and an author and suggestions will appear from Amazon and Library Thing, etc..

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.

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

Children's book reviews of kids' picture books, board books, books for beginning and young readers, tween and young adult fiction and nonfiction, children's literature and parenting titles - a recommended reading resource for kids, teachers, librarians and parents.

The Automatic Bibliography & Citation Maker

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.

A book trailer for MY HEART IS LIKE A ZOO, the new picture book from author Michael Hall. Welcome to the zoo! Twenty animals are waiting for you-some are familiar, some may be brand-new.