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"28 April to 4 May. PAW is held each year to promote greater privacy awareness and the importance of protecting personal information"

This article is part of a series from the International Reading Association Technology in Literacy Education Special Interest Group (TILE-SIG).

50 favourite novelists with a bit of a blurb on each. Many children's & young adult writers included.

"create their own books using images, text, videos, and audio recordings. You can arrange your book in three different formats; portrait, square, or landscape. Each page in your book can include pictures and videos from your iPad's camera roll and or from your iTunes library. In addition to the pictures and videos you can include as much as text as you can fit on each page. In fact, if you just want to have text on a page you can do that. If you would like to narrate your book you can tap the record button to add your voice to each page of your book. Every page in your book can have a custom color scheme."

No! You can't just take it! No! You can't take it, because you found it on Google! No! You can't just right click>save>use, just because you can! No! You can't just pretend that you created it! No! You can't make money off my work that I shared FREELY under certain conditions! No! You can't just take it…even in the name of education! No! You can't just take it… even if AND ESPECIALLY BECAUSE you are a teacher!

With many educational institutions choosing to use tablets for learning, it can be quite intimidating for teachers when faced with so many applications. The diagram below serves to illustrate that less than 20 core apps can play a significant part in the learning process and hopefully temper any trepidation.

Astronomy Picture of the Day website

Information about ACMA's Cybersmart seminars

The population of e-book readers is growing. Ebook usage is slowly rising and print book usage is slowly declining.

Peru. masked writers are given a few words and must write a story in a paragraph. Eventual winner is awarded a book contract. Library lunchtime activity

An amazing interactive video in 4 parts, created from images from the NY Times archives. At any point you can stop and explore the content in more detail.

The Inquiry Learning Plan (ILP) is an organizational tool for students to author their own learning.

"Similar to Facebook, you must be 13 or older to sign up for Goodreads, which helps to explain why it's a useful tool for recommending books to young adults. It's also a great way to stay in touch during the summer, because students can see what their librarians or teachers are reading. And since kids can write reviews for the site, it also offers them opportunities to offer an in-depth analysis of the titles they've read."