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"A book review summarizes the book's content, examines the author's intent in writing it, and expresses the reviewer's opinion about to what extent the author succeeded in conveying the intent or communicating a message. Just like any other piece of writing, a book review requires a lead paragraph that will attract the reader's attention..." (para. 4-5).

"This post shows how to cite any e-book in APA Style" (Lee, 2011.06.03, ¶1 [retrieved 2011.06.09]).

"Book reviews typically evaluate recently-written works. They offer a brief description of the text's key points and often provide a short appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses of the work" (¶1, last edited 2011.09.27).

The guide for Book Trailers is remarkably similar to a template for book review blog posts

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"This collection is for anyone interested in the use of mobile technology for various distance learning applications. Readers will discover how to design learning materials for delivery on mobile technology and become familiar with the best practices of other educators, trainers, and researchers in the field, as well as the most recent initiatives in mobile learning research. Businesses and governments can learn how to deliver timely information to staff using mobile devices. Professors can use this book as a textbook for courses on distance education, mobile learning, and educational technology." (Details, ¶1)

"LitReactor has three goals. To become: * A destination for writers to improve their craft. * A haven for readers to geek out about books. * And a platform to kickstart your writing goals." (http://litreactor.com/about) The site showcases essays in nearly two dozen categories (2012.03.01): Abstracts (1) Character (15) Cliche (2) Dialogue (9) Grammar (10) Literary Devices (8) Live Reading (3) Narrator (7) Objects (4) POV (3) Phrases (3) Plot (18) Poetry (1) Research (9) Rewriting (2) Setting (1) Similies (1) Structure (14) Theme (8) Verbs (1) Vocabulary (5) Voice (16) Word Play (2) Workshop (2) (http://litreactor.com/essays/categories) 

This page lists a full Elluminate session (1 hr.), portable audio, and video recordings, plus a chat log, from an August 20, 2009, discussion with the author, Gary Small, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA.

"From Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books... " (retrieved 2010.05.10).

"Free Downloadable Audio Books" (2011.03.15)

Reprinted from the Academic Author newsletter of the Text and Academic Author Association

This excerpt (Israel, 2012, Ch. 5) mentions abuses and tedium of slide presentations, as well as advantages of, and strategies for supplementing talks with slide shows.

Folks at Prezi have compiled a list of popular and high quality resources for presenters and presenters-to-be, and used bold typeface to flag which they deemed to be the best in each of four categories: Articles and Blogs Books Presentations Podcasts and Videos

"This site is for the support of the Moodle Reader Module, a module that provides quizzes on over 1600 graded readers and books for young readers, so that teachers can have a simple way to assess their students' work" (¶1, retrieved 2011.08.29).

Searchable by subject or template, this site facilitates creation of "free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds!" (2011.07.04). Templates [include:] Fakebook [new] Arcade Game Generator Random Name Picker Countdown Timer Twister Keyword Checker Plagiarizr Dustbin Game Telescopic Topic Post It Diamond 9 Fishbone (Ishikawa) Venn Diagram Animated Book Timeline Lights Out Target Hamburger Living Graph Learning Cycle Jigsaw Diagram Priority Chart Source Analyser

Friesen, Norm. (2009). .... New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

includes narrative, genre, post-cognitivist psychology, phenomenology, and critical theory

Boyle, James. (2008). [CC-BY-NC-SA]

"Collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best." (Issuu - You Publish [home page], Publish by millions, ¶1, 2009.09.10)

Menu of online reading collections: Three Little Plays, Fiction and Non-Fiction, Comics, Folk Tales, Greek Myths, and Chinese Fables (2011.03.15)

Site offering activities and stories in various thematic groups: Animals and Nature, Everyday Life, Seasonal, Fairy Tales, Poems and Rhymes, World Stories, and Colour in Stories (2011.03.15)