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Conducting Literature Circle with mobile devices such as the iPad, not only provides immediate access to a diverse selection of books, but also to reference materials, research tools, interactive maps, and a slew of creation and dynamic notebook apps. Within this single device, students can quickly check the meaning of a word, run a quick background check on a historic event, or articulate their understanding of text with a range of multimedia apps. Teachers can now easily differentiate the processes students can use to demonstrate understanding.

Download an e-book, watch videos, and use tempates from teachers to learn how to use Windows Live Movie Maker and other tools to make learning more personal with pictures and movies in your classroom." />Stylesheet

There is a place for eBooks in the classroom. Can they replace textbooks. Heck yeah! Why not! The eBook of the future could be a multimedia platform with video and audio and interactive teaching tools. But should eBooks replace entire libraries like the one in Massachusetts? I just don't think so, at least not right now.

Free or Nearly Free Stuff 3D design tools Animation App inventing  and  Apps Augmented Reality: Guiness Book of Records 2014 Aurasma and Apositive - augmented reality apps and Balloon powered cars ...

Fascinating article from the blog for the Canva Design School

Infographic on some of the most popular books the world has ever seen.

CHOOSE YOUR READING MODE In keeping with its topic, this essay can either be read in a scrolling screen format or in a book-like format; it can also be listened to.

Reader's Advisory site for kids! Teachers can sign up a classroom. Kids can connect with each other and review & recommend books.

I really love the way that Monarch Academy Elementary (Primary) Librarian Keisa Williams has incorporated Google forms into her already excellent library wiki. Students get involved in the library and get experience using web 2.0 tools such as Google Docs, while Keisa gets an organised documents with records of all student requests, along with names, date of request and so on.

A collection of links to audio, downloadable, and interactive books, cartoons, podcasts, newsletters, and reading strategies for teachers.

The worlds of Brian Selznick's Wonderstruck and The Invention of Hugo Cabret offer rich possibilities for classroom learning in every area of the curriculum. Read our guide to teaching with Brian Selznick's award-winning books, filled with rich resources for teachers and students. From a virtual field trip inside the American Museum of Natural History-the setting for much of Wonderstruck-to discussion guides, classroom activities, and interviews with Selznick, it's all here!

This article gives an in-depth description of Small Demons, "a web-based literary database that visually indexes, annotates, and connects the people, places, and things in books we read and love to the world beyond their pages." Beyond that are many great ideas for how schools and libraries can use this site with the world of young adult literature.

20 of the most popular destinations for buying, downloading and renting digital books, comics and textbooks