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This is a simple tool that will assist with learning English (to Advanced English), Spanish, and Polish vocabulary. More languages may follow. It can be used online or with a free Android app. It is similar to a lot of other language learning applications. You can create lists of words and phrases that you want to learn or you can select a list that was made by someone else and shared to the Vocabla library. You can study each list as a type of flashcard and when you are ready you can take a practice quiz. Teachers might like using Vocabla to create a list of words and share with their class. All the students could use the list to study on their own

Information literacy is a human right, according to the Australian Library and Information Association. I found this incredibly moving and inspirational fact out while researching the follwoing presentation on lifelong learning.

Turn simple photographs into videos using this site. Once you sign up (it's free) you begin by choosing a video template and then adding your pictures from Facebook, Flickr, or your computer. You can set the order of your pictures, add captions to them and add text slides if you wish. Next you add music, either from their library or add your own from your computer. Your last step is to add a video title and any additional text and you're done. Completed videos can be uploaded to You Tube or Facebook and can even be embedded into a website or blog. The site does have a 30 picture maximum but that is long enough for most people.

Library Journal's top 20 Steampunk book lists

Thought Audio is a producer and provider of free audio books featuring classic titles across a variety of genres. Thought Audio audio books are professionally narrated works that you can listen to online or download to play offline. The library of audio books on Thought Audio contains some titles that are hard to find as audio files. For example you'll find titles like Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Life of PT Barnum, and The Madman. You'll also find more commonly read titles like Alice in Wonderland, and Poe's The Raven.

The students at the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Women's University have created for many trailers for the Printz Award winners and Honor Books dating back to 2000.

Article in the Guardian by Simon Barron. It discusses the arguments put by the publishers about borrowing ebooks beyond a library's walls and opinions baout why they wont work.

The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter.

Pictures - Sievers, Wolfgang, 1913-2007. [Two women canning beans on an assembly line], Harvest Melbourne, 1957 [picture] - selection of photos between 1957-1966. Natuional Library of Australia - digital collections

Presented at the University of Manitoba June 17th 2008. (for those of you waiting for the Library of Congress presentation,

Each week we will place a new post accessible through the tab on the top of the page labelled 'further instructions', which will give a little run down of the week's activity.

presentations by heyjudeonline and camilla elliott among others at NECC

I do a lot of work with organizations funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). My work as an evaluator provides me the opportunity to see the high quality work these organizations produce.

An online library of free videos for learners everywhere - find resources to help you learn

A wiki for school library media specialists to learn about cool new web tools, see how they can be used in school library media programs, and share ideas & success stories.

A wiki for school friendly media.

a free, online library of teacher- and student-made short videos for learners everywhere.