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.
I'm sure many of you are familiar with this blog but I found her last post particularly relevant to this course. It's an overview of a VALA presentation by Hugh Rundle from Boroondara Libraries entitled Technolust and Libraries. An interesting read!
Its National Poetry Month in the U.S. I use this site a great deal whenever teaching poetry -- poems, author bios, reviews and recordings of readings are among the offerings.
how to wirelessly control a set of Keynote slides running on an iPad connected to a projector. Not surprisingly, there's an app for that. Apple has an app called Keynote Remote to support your Keynote slideshows.
I love Scoop.it! I have been using it to share great websites with colleagues. Only trouble is that they need to check in their own time - I can't find a way of notifying them of new Scoops
Article which explains Reflector. A tool which helps capture the live video screen of your iPhone, iPad etc. It captures audio too. Great for creating educational tech videos.
Minimalist posters that cover a variety of scienific discoveries and systems including sub-headings for women, corrections/commonly attributed to and Arabic scientists.