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A good guide to creating EPUB files ceated by best-selling author Elizabeth Castro shows you how to prepare EPUB files, make the files look great on the screen, work around EPUB weaknesses, and fix common errors

This post from TeleRead brings a new angle to the E-Books discussion. Are e-readers too easy to read? makes interesting reading. A neuroscience blogger suggests that easy to read fonts interfere with information retention

"In the search for revenue lost to the burgeoning ebook market, HarperCollins has found some deeeeep pockets from which to grab that cash: The public library."

Forcing libraries to rebuy ebooks after 26 loans because that is how fast a paperback wears out? Crikey, what about an eBook version of one chisseled out of a marble slab?

"Ever wondered how Alfred Hitchcock would have used YouTube? Many of his techniques work well with video, for example, the sharp editing, cutaways, sudden sounds and pacing. These nine ways will jazz up your videos and turn the most ordinary scenes into more compelling videos."

Good resource that explains with some examples, how to jazz up your videos.

curate through social media using story telling

Miller (female) interviewed by Mr. Freedman

Great teaching tools for teaching map skills and more. Also offers Teaching Tools link for activities across all content areas. The Reading Room is another good link.

Innovation is very much on the agenda in Australian and globally. The OECD publishes lists of nations most likely to succeed through innovation and nations seek to encourage increased innovation to maintain their competitive edge. The result of this in Australia is the recent launch of a new 'Innovation Australia' policy with wide reaching measures to encourage and foster a culture of innovation.