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A list of those who do this for free. These authors are willing to participate in 20-minute Skype visits free of charge. (Many also offer more in-depth virtual visits for a fee.)

The following post is the first in a new series from Leslie Lees, VP of Content Development from ebrary. Academic Ebooks - The Shifting Landscape will discuss changes that are occurring with ebooks and implications for libraries and their users.

Prezi on Twitter for professional development: Participants will learn the basics of how to use Twitter as a Professional Development tool through learning what Twitter Chats are, how to find chat groups suited to their educational interests, and how to navigate and get the most out of Twitter Chat

skills4studycampus is a fully interactive e-learning resource, which will help students develop the study skills they need to be successful and is suitable for students on all courses and in any year of study.

This is an excellent explanation of how to make a quality comment on a blog that will extend the conversation. Intro'd by the tchr, and explained by the students (about 2nd gr?)

This short project seeks to develop a practical curriculum for information literacy that meets the needs of the undergraduate student entering higher education over the next five years. It will consult widely with experts in the information literacy field, and also those working in curriculum design and educational technologies.

"The purpose of this community project is to trial the use of the game Minecraft (http://www.minecraft.net) in schools as part of voluntary student activity. The community will engage in exploration and research, not to decide or direct any particular application of the game but, to understand where students might take it and how they and their teachers visualise possibilities for it use within the curriculum."

Students can type in what they are researching and the search will return the top sources cited for that topic!

The teacher tools below will allow you to make graphic organizers by filling out a simple form. The materials are made instantly and can be printed directly from your computer. Your creations are exclusive to you. If you would like to keep your creations, save them when you make them. includes concept maps, KWL organisers

It's all about Think Aloud, that age-old trick of simply narrating everything you are doing as the wiser, more experienced brain in the room. Narrate your decisions and your rationale and you will be teaching your students how to make good decisions online and off. Good behavior online is trickle down, after all. Model it, live it, talk about it. It's all "using" technology.

VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save. Select any word on the list and you'll see a snapshot of the Visual Thesaurus map

"I know only one thing about the technologies that awaits us in the future:We will find ways to tell stories with them." Jason Ohlar

Welcome to the audio stories section, here is a current list of all of our audio stories. For best results, you should be using Internet Explorer. You will also need the FREE Windows Media player that is available at http://www.windowsmedia.com.

In this hour-long webinar, sponsored by Top Shelf Productions, ABDO Publishing Group, and SLG Publishing, Booklist associate editor Ian Chipman is joined by Christian Zabriskie, Assistant Coordinator of Young-Adult Services at Queens Library, whose research will open your eyes to the true potential for graphic novels, both for adults and youth, to spike those circulation numbers through the roof. And with looks at exciting new titles from our three sponsors, this is an event you can't afford to miss.

Excellent site for finding free books, recently dropped prices and new books to Kindle. The site will email you when a book you are watching drops to the price you would like to pay. Really useful for school libraries

Draft Information Literacy Framework for Wales was published on 16th March 2011 as part of the Welsh Information Literacy project. "The SCONUL model will provide a core structure for this framework by categorizing information literacy learning objectives at each educational level." Welsh Information Literacy Project (2011).