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Debra Gottsleben

Subtext - 0 views

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    "Read any book with your friends in Subtext. You can exchange ideas and share all types of information and Web content as you read. Join now and discover the world's first collection of community-enriched books"
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    App which makes reading more social. Should share with Lang. Arts teachers as well.
Debra Gottsleben

Welcome to the Frontpage - 0 views

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    "If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good animation is worth ten thousand. After reading book after book about the Pacific War and finding only complicated maps with dotted lines and dashed lines crisscrossing the pages, we decided to depict the key naval and land battles using animation technology."
scott klepesch

Dgh - home - 0 views

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    Digital History text book created by students for students
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    Text book created by students
scott klepesch

Digital Textbooks: Three Simple Shifts Can Speed Up Adoption | Powerful Learning Practice - 0 views

  • Shift #1  – Let’s make the curriculum map the curriculum map. That’s not a textbook’s job.
  • Better yet, can we build our curriculum maps to be digital frameworks, on which we can hang the additional digital resources that we use to help teach our students, standards and content?
  • then our coordinators need to be good at more than just instructional implementation. They also need expertise in publishing on the Web and in resource development and distribution
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    Ideas for making the shift to digital texts. The Internet is the best source of content that's ever been. The challenge for schools and districts and parents and famillies and municipalities is getting that information into the hands of our students. It made sense to hand them a book when the experts were far away and the libraries were scarce and only had a few copies of everything. But it doesn't have to be that way now. In fact, in many ways, it's not.
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    The Internet is the best source of content that's ever been. The challenge for schools and districts and parents and famillies and municipalities is getting that information into the hands of our students. It made sense to hand them a book when the experts were far away and the libraries were scarce and only had a few copies of everything. But it doesn't have to be that way now. In fact, in many ways, it's not.
Debra Gottsleben

Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone with Free eBooks, Movies, Audio Books, Courses & Mor... - 0 views

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    links to free ebooks, audio bks, and more!
Debra Gottsleben

New Jersey Public Policy Collection - 0 views

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    The Kean University Library online database that houses the publications of non-profit organizations which focus on New Jersey public policy issues. This collection allows users to access these documents from one centralized, easy to use location. The texts of the documents are fully searchable and are catalogued with subject headings similarly to a book in a library. This collection allows users to access a variety of publications pertaining to economic growth, education, social justice, health care, and criminal justice. This fully searchable database is compiled of files derived from a variety of non-profit organizations from across the state of New Jersey in an effort to provide information on policy reform and solutions for researchers and the public as a whole to make use of.
Debra Gottsleben

Reading a Book Versus a Screen: Different Reading Devices, Different Modes of Reading?|... - 0 views

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    "A research project focusing on reading behavior going on at Johannes Gutenberg University (go figure) asks the question of whether or not we actually read in a completely different way using our ereaders, and if the effects are undesirable. Has technology developed its own significant physical procession of human motor movements for consuming info and entertainment on today's digital media? Sure it has, and according to this study at least, it's harmless-just different. posted by Ian Jukes Nov 10, 2011"
Debra Gottsleben

Zinn Education Project - 0 views

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    "The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the use of Howard Zinn's best-selling book A People's History of the United States and other materials for teaching a people's history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. The Zinn Education Project is coordinated by two non-profit organizations, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change. Its goal is to introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of United States history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. The empowering potential of studying U.S. history is often lost in a textbook-driven trivial pursuit of names and dates. Zinn's A People's History of the United States emphasizes the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history. Students learn that history is made not by a few heroic individuals, but instead by people's choices and actions, thereby also learning that their own choices and actions matter."
scott klepesch

Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history - 1 views

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    Smarthistory.org is a free, not-for-profit, multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook. Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker began smARThistory in 2005 by creating a blog featuring free audio guides in the form of podcasts for use in The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Soon after, we embedded the audio files in our online survey courses.
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    Extremely well done site. Added tag for world history.
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    Open Source materials for Art History. Narrative slideshows about different time periods.
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    Open Source material for infusing art history into the classroom. Definitely worth exploring
scott klepesch

Online Exhibits Overview - 0 views

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    " The photography of the Civil War is perhaps the single most important element that stimulates our interest in the conflict. Yet no aspect of the war is so routinely taken for granted. Most Civil War books that feature original war photographs use them exclusively as illustrations and ignore the underlying story of how and why the images were made."
scott klepesch

Nieman Reports | Summer 2010 - 0 views

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    "Explore the emerging realms of digital territory where news and information reside-or will soon. It's a place where game playing thrives and augmented reality tugs at possibilities. It's where video excels, while the appetite for long-form text and the experience of "deep reading" is diminished, and it's where the allure of multitasking greets the crush of information. Learn how young people negotiate their journey, and travel inside the brain to discover its capacities in the digital realm. Dig deeper into topics covered in the magazine by clicking on the books in our digital library to reveal selected videos, articles, blogs and Web sites"
Debra Gottsleben

AMNH Digital Special Collections - 0 views

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    Digital Special Collections of the American Museum of Natural History's Research Library provides access to our rich collections of digitized archival photographic images, art and memorabilia images and Rare Book Collection illustrations. Use the tabs above to view Collections and Exhibits, or choose Browse to see all the images digitized to date. Enter terms in the box above to search across all our images or choose the Advanced Search option.
Debra Gottsleben

The Public Domain Review - 0 views

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    From Richard Byrne: "a website that features collections of images, books, essays, audio recordings, and films that are in the public domain. Choose any of the collections to search for materials according to date, style, genre, and rights. Directions for downloading and saving media is included along with each collection of media. "
Debra Gottsleben

ManyBooks.net - Ad-free eBooks for your iPad, Kindle, or eBook reader - 0 views

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    service that has indexed more than 29,000 free ebooks that are available in a variety of formats for a variety of devices.
Debra Gottsleben

Search-ebooks.eu - Free ebook search engine - 0 views

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    "Search EBooks is a service dedicated to helping you find free ebooks. When you find an ebook on Search EBooks you can view a preview of it, download, or grab an embed code without ever leaving the search results page." from Richard Byrne at http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/12/search-ebooks-ebook-search-engine.html
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    if you're looking for an ebook version of something this might be a good place to start.
Debra Gottsleben

Myths of creativity - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog - 0 views

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    very interesting post
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    Especially like the reference to design and referencing the Nondesigners Design book.
scott klepesch

Daniel Pink's Think Tank: Flip-thinking - the new buzz word sweeping the US - Telegraph - 0 views

  • Lectures at night, “homework” during the day. Call it the Fisch Flip. “When you do a standard lecture in class, and then the students go home to do the problems, some of them are lost. They spend a whole lot of time being frustrated and, even worse, doing it wrong,” Fisch told me.
  • Why not, Godin has proposed, put out the cheaper paperback – or even an e-book – first? Readers are more likely to gamble on an unknown author when they can risk £8 rather than £25.
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    Innovation through Algebra
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