teacher-librarians

Say good-bye to your mother's school library

I found this site from Joyce Valenza's BookLeads wiki homepage - looks like fun!

A must read--helps clarify "the court decision."

"How can we navigate through the information landscape that is only beginning to come into view? The question is more urgent than ever following the recent settlement between Google and the authors and publishers who were suing it for alleged breach of copyright."

A great way to easily add effects to your photos

'A forum for parents, teens and experts to discuss safe socializing on the fixed and mobile web'

It becomes less important for students to know, memorize, or recall information, and more important for them to be able to find, sort, analyze, share, discuss, critique, and create information. They need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able.

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.

This is a list by Charles Knight (AltSearchEngines editor) of the 10 best search engines of 2008. "Google has been compared to a luxury liner that turns around very, very slowly, whereas the startups are speedboats that can turn (or innovate) on a dime. I guarantee that if you try any of these top 10 alternative search engines of 2008, you won't come away saying, "Hey, that was just like Google."

This is a visual search engine which is especially good for searching for videos and photos / images.