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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.

You can listen to podcasts of booktalks at this site. This would be great for students who can't seem to find a good book to read. The books chosen are Isinglass Teen Read Award Nominees - this is a teen book award in New Hampshire, but I am sure these books are popular all over!

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.

The author of the Book Whisperer challenging her readers to join her in her summer book a day. Always inspiring and often impressive in ideas and dedication to her craft.

Great site for sharing your book reccommendations with students, parents, and colleagues. Kind of like Facebook for book worms.

This site allows you to read, create, and share books online. You can read books online for free. You can also have students create their own books and publish them online with over 7,000 images. There is a fee of $12.95 a month for one teacher. You could plan your lessons around creating books and pay the fee for the months you used the program.

The Horn Book magazine features reviews of books for children and young adults. This site includes several Classroom Tips for promoting the love of reading and reading skills. Includes podcasts featuring conversations with authors, illustrators, and editors.

Education Oasis is an online "oasis" for teachers, administrators, and parents to visit to get ideas, information, and inspiration for their students. The site provides graphic organizers, printables, bulletin boards, lesson plans, subject resources, and instructional and classroom management tips and tricks. Links are provided for articles on various educational topics, as well as websites for teachers and students. It also shares book reviews and book lists for children and teens.

Students can create, share, publish, and read digital books.

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 is an amazing book. Wow what a resource!

A site to get information on conferences, books on technology topics, and articles with the latest on up and coming technologies.

Bright ideas is a blog where school library staff share ideas on how they can use Web 2.0 tools in their library and in their school. Tons of links and resources for book reviews, collaborative tools, Creative Commons websites, cybersafety, e-books and magazines, e-portfolios, feature use of Web 2.0 tools, and much more. This site was the first runner up in the 2009 Edublog Awards for Best Library Blog.

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.

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.

As a Language Arts teacher and a hopeful librarian, I love Donalyn Miller and jump at any chance to spread her love of books to those who have not found her yet! Enjoy!

This site provides the latest information on what is happening in the world of books. It has articles addressing censorship, copyright, funding, even professional development. It would be a great resource for any LMS.

On GoAnimate you can make your own animated characters, direct your own cartoons and watch others' creations. It's easy and free! I think this would be a fun way to allow students the creative freedom to construct graphic-novel-type book reports or fictional stories. This would also be a wonderful way for students to retell the plot line of the story for the class.

This site has tons of information for those wanting to use blogs in the classroom. The blogs are geared specially for anyone in the field of education. You can find tips on how to manage your blogs and how to get students involved.

This is a cool platform for those who would like to experiment with classroom blogs. I liked it for my students because unlike other platforms like Blogger and Word Press, the students do not have to have an email account to sign in.

You may have seen this before, but I thought it would be worth it to look at the site again from the PD perspective.

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