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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

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

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

MyReadingMapped™ - 0 views

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    "This site is an extenstive compendium of documentaries, in the form of interactive Google Maps on Historic Events. In a sense it is a library of maps that allow you to do much more than just watch and read. You get to digitally experience the event by finding and zooming in on the locations you read about in the related eBooks."
scott klepesch

Six Reasons Why Textbooks Should Stop Being Textbooks : 2¢ Worth - 0 views

  • This makes a lot of sense to me — textbook as platform to be populated by the very teachers who will use them.
  • Can’t teachers respectfully and with regard for the law select, shape, mash and mix existing digital content into modules or learning objects for their learners. Might we even see commercial modules, produced by what use to be the textbook industry, t
  • ollowing the same model, communities of teachers can contributed well researched and carefully designed modules for portions of their curriculum (or standards if you insist) that they know well and about which they are especially passionate.
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  • Might content curation become a 21st century skill that learners should be developing as part of their formal education? Should students be guided in growing their own digital textbooks into personal digital libraries?
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    "Yesterday, Mashable author, Sarah Kessler, wrote "The Case for Making Online Textbooks Open Source," where she drew attention to programs at MIT and Carnegie Mellon that post lectures and other course materials online for free. "
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