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"SAN ANTONIO - Several Texas A&M professors know something that generations of teachers could only hope to guess: whether students are reading their textbooks." They know when students are skipping pages, failing to highlight significant passages, not bothering to take notes - or simply not opening the book at all.

Judi Jagger, the current Western Australian Children's Book Council judge, has developed her own blog. It is a must read for anyone interested in children's and YA literature.

Great evaluative tool for seniors that can be simplified for middle school too.

Some good news today from YouTube. I just learned about this gigantic step YouTube took by allowing people to download music for free from its new service called YouTube Audio Library. This is not a comprehensive library and don't expect to find every piece of music you want there but still it is a very good start and is one of the best platforms we can use with our students to access free music downloads.

Microsoft is offering another free download aimed at the education market. Learning Essentials provides the following resources: Learning Essentials adds curriculum-based templates and toolbars to Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint, and Excel to guide students and teachers through projects. There is a separate set of tools for teachers and students. Some language versions include tools to create e-learning content.

This is a useful site for anyone looking for quality children's/young adult literature. It can be searched according to 12 parameters including unusual ones like setting, ethnicity and gender of protagonist. There are 108 awards covered from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, and Ireland.

Bev Novak has been developing an interesting blog. Bev uses her blog as a forum for writing about, processing and sharing her learning with other educators. 

Welcome to TikiToki, a web app that makes it dead easy to make stunning, animated timelines that work in your browser. Our basic account is completely free.How would you like to create beautiful, interactive timelines that include videos and image galleries? Well, now you can thanks to a great new web service brought to you by ChronoFlo and Webalon.TikiToki makes creating online timelines as easy as possible. Sign up for our free, basic account and within almost no time, you could be creating a timeline of your life, of a historical event that interests you or of the life of a great musician or artist... the possibilities are endless.

15 different images with advice from a range of authors.

A great collection of books for educators to read

Looking for an online, multimedia, real time encyclopedia? Mashpedia is just that and is worth using with students.

This is a conference by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. A goal of the conference is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a continually changing learning landscape.

Markus Zusak discusses the challenges of writing and why we should embrace failure. Interesting read.

Classroom materials for the "Trillion dollar footprint" lesson on digital footprints. 

Search for images from Australian cultural organisations all in the one place. Keep track of events, exhibitions etc

Veezzle is a "free stock photo search engine". Exactly like google but for free stock photos ONLY. So instead of wasting your time by browsing 25 different sites, you can type a search and find results from all those websites, immediately.

Image generator and ordering details for ALA promotional material CD

This article was written by Will Richardson a couple of years ago but will still be revealing reading for anyone still coming to grips with the value of social bookmarking.

No login required. Ideal for school use. Build the avatar and download as .png or email.

For the first time, the World Report is being made available online in a fully searchable database, complete with graphical map interface. By clicking on a country's marker, you can either select "View individual report"