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We've all heard, "don't judge a book by its cover," but have you heard, "don't judge a book by its movie?"

Drawing For Beginners: From Dot To Drawing Shapes And Forms - Kindle edition by Renee B. Williams. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Drawing For Beginners: From Dot To Drawing Shapes And Forms.

Network Mapping And Network Scanning: (NMAP Cookbook, NMAP, NMAP Essentials, NMAP Network Scanning, NMAP Scanning) - Kindle edition by Renee B. Williams. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Network Mapping And Network Scanning: (NMAP Cookbook, NMAP, NMAP Essentials, NMAP Network Scanning, NMAP Scanning).

How To Talk To Anyone: Mastering The Art Of Talking - Kindle edition by Megan Coulter. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading How To Talk To Anyone: Mastering The Art Of Talking.

Online safety must be relevant to youth, or we're talking to ourselves. It must accommodate the growing body of research on youth risk and what kids themselves say about how they use digital media, and it must be respectful-of both young people and the new media conditions they're ably exploiting.

About AnswerGarden AnswerGarden is a minimalistic feedback tool. Use it for online brainstorming with your team or embed it on your website or blog as a poll or guestbook."

"The answer to almost any question is available within seconds, courtesy of the invention that has altered how we discover knowledge - the search engine. Materializing answers from the air turns out to be the easy part - the part a machine can do. The real difficulty kicks in when you click down into your search results. At that point, it's up to you to sort the accurate bits from the misinfo, disinfo, spam, scams, urban legends, and hoaxes. "Crap detection," as Hemingway called it half a century ago, is more important than ever before, now that the automation of crapcasting has generated its own word: "spamming.""

"In a world of information overload, it is vital for students to not only find information but also determine its validity and appropriateness. Our information literacy material demystifies the process of finding and validating online information. These vital skills are needed as students prepare for our global economy."

you share a small list of five books and it compares those to all others entered. if you build your library it will exclude those books from your search, and can also exclude any author.

"he Digizen website provides information for educators, parents, carers, and young people. It is used to strengthen their awareness and understanding of what digital citizenship is and encourages users of technology to be and become responsible DIGItal citiZENS. It shares specific advice and resources on issues such as social networking and cyberbullying and how these relate to and affect their own and other people's online experiences and behaviours. "

McLuhan predicted we'd have to leave the bookworld behind to be "with it" in the electronic world but with social media we can do it all. Learn about an evolving virtual book club model, online or inworld, that culminates with the screening of collaboratively produced bookcasts, multimedia aesthetic responses to books.

Unusually informative article on the state of digital texts in 2010. Short and concise. Good info for librarian tech leaders.

©2007 GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido MLS

This is a visual search engine which shows the front page of each of the web pages in your search - pretty cool! As you scroll sideways it flicks through each page. It also gives you a list of categories you can click on first to refine your search - good for students to use.

SafeShare TV creates a new URL for a YouTube video. It elimnates the distracting elements around the video as it appears on YouTube and allows you to crop the video.

"search engine for images, mostly ones that have a Creative Commons license. It's design is very attractive and easy to use. The key reason I like it, though, is because when you want to use one of their photos, it automatically shows whatever permissions are required."

Invisible web, search tools, curriculum. Incorporate this into web search lessons.

"When connected to the HDMI adapter, the iPad 2 will display a duplicate version of the contents of its screen on an external monitor. Want to demo an education app via a projector or HDTV for a classroom full of kids? The iPad 2 makes it possible." " An Improvement All Around"