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Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.

This is an awesome site for book lovers! It allows you to browse through popular books, which I love to do, just to see what people are reading for an idea of what to read next. Then you can put books that you own on your "shelf". You can then have friends and share actual books with each other, if you live nearby. It is also a great place to read ratings on books. It then links you to Amazon and other libraries where you could check our or buy the books! You can also put your "bookshelf" on a blog to show off your interests to all your friends.

PowerPoints that are already created on just about any area you can think of including library skills. This is a link to the library one, but the home page has PowerPoints for every subject area. (Parts of a Book, Dewey Decimal System, More - Free Presentations in PowerPoint format, Free Interactives for Kids)

Great site! I use this at least twice per week. Power Point presentations, web links, games and activities for nearly every topic in every subject being taught. The work has already been done for you!

Huge collection of free, already made, Power Points in a variety of different subjects and topics.

WePapers helps students and others share and expand their knowledge for free. You can find and download papers and documents you need in a matter of seconds, discuss them with others, or just mess around. WePapers is where you find the kind of quality information you wouldn't find anywhere else on the web, the kind of papers you'd have to dig for in dusty library basements and still not find what you're looking for. WePapers is one big study group! Universities are even using it for class-notes and articles. I could see using this in a classroom situation for research papers and the such. Students would have the opportunity to connect with others around the world, get help, and feedback from others just like them.

This site would be a great tool to use in the classroom (or in a library). A "wallwisher" wall allows everyone to communicate on a "wall" answering a question you have posed. Using sticky notes, those in the class answer on the virtual/visual wall. The wall I built asked the question, "what are you reading and what do you like about it so far?" Students can answer with both words and images. Therefore, it is my hope students will upload a picture of the book cover and give a quick review of the book based on what they have read so far. You can design the color/design of the wall. I found this tool to be lots of fun and it could be used in many ways in a classroom or library. Wallwisher could definitely be used to inspire collaboration and communication.

This is an online notice board maker where you can post announcements, greetings, jokes; just about anything you would want to put on a Post It. I think this would be a great tool for students to use in a note taking assignment. This would be fun to collaborate multiple students' posts and try to combine them randomly to create a funny poem or short story.

Great blog with tips on how to use social networking to your advantage and to your LMC's advantage. Don't shy away from technology, just look at this blog to see tips and tricks that will make your LMC a great place for everyone involved.

A library weblog that provides professional development resources. What I like about this blog and find useful is the "130 Tools". Provides links to 130 different web tools.

Very intelligent yet accessible blog for technology in the library nd classroom setting. Witty and entertaining blogger.

Blog for teacher librarians. connects to other blogs, YouTube videos embedded, reviews of student literature, etc.

Great for finding books for your library.

This site is a must for school librarians. View blogs, free webcasts, sign up for free newsletters, read current book reviews and so much more!

This blog has a lot of relevant information and addresses everything from good books to read to Facebook to MLA formatting. There is also a good amount of information on transliteracy I found really interesting.

This blog provides great resources and practical ideas for librarians and all those interested in technology. This is a great professional development blog especially for librarians.

This site allows you to share the books you have read with others and let them know what you thought about it. It also lets you choose books you want to read and has the capability of letting others tell you what they thought about those books. It is a great social network for all kinds of readers.

This site is broken down into the five main math standards and from there, it breaks it down into grades. These are excellent virtual manipulatives that students can use online. They are organized neatly and each one has directions on how to use them. Some of them are more confusing than others, but well worth it. My kids love using them.

A host of information and links for connecting librarians. This site contains lessons, units, handouts, rubrics, presentations, and teaching tips. A great place to share and learn.

A wiki just for librarians to take from others and share their own ideas and insights.

This site lists the top 25 librarian blogs according to visitor traffic.

A librarian created this blog in order to answer all the "foreign" questions she is asked. She answers the questions in hopes of teaching others about new technology and how to integrate it into the classroom.

A list of resources for school librarians ranging from Evaluation and Weeding, Book Repair, Selection Tools, Collection Development Policies, and General Collection Development. This is a great site to bookmark for any librarian.

Digital Media for Teachers is an extensive library full of resources for classroom use or professional development.

This is a great site that is divided by subject and then it is divided into topics. There is also a good selection of professional development resources. There is even a section divided into state standards.

This site has many K-12 teacher resources and professional development information.