Useful sites (weekly)

Best things about the Barnes and Noble Nook eBook Reader « Moving at the Speed of Creativity A post about the Barnes and Noble eBook reader – giving the current lowdown on the Nook. Your Free Online Video Editor | JayCut Jaycut is a very good online video editing interface. Import photos, audio, video, and make a [...]

Turning the pages : Rare books from the British Library

What amazing opportunities we have now that we can digitize many very old and delicate original sources. The British Library has an Online Gallery called Turning the Pages.  Now pages of some of the world’s most protected, cherished, antiquarian books from the library’s collection are available to be viewed electronically. Once we would not have been able to [...]

Useful Links (weekly)

Crime and Punishment: Free AudioBook and eBook | Open Culture Subversive Teaching The principles of subversive – interesting site that talks about the goals of teaching. Subversive teaching should challenge and encourage students to think beyond the conventional wisdom of popular culture.  TidyRead – A Faster and Leaner Mobile Reading Experience this is a solution that intends [...]

Readability – Decluttering the webpages

Sometimes you just want to read an article. The information is important or interesting to you but, if like me at the end of the day you are tired, it can be a chore to reading something that has been cluttered up with advertisements and widgets. It is distracting and annoying that there is increasingly more clutter [...]

Sand Animation and Vivaldi’s Spring and Winter

How clever people are! I had a webinar on ebooks tonight. Very interesting and I will put my thoughts down soon. After the webinar I was looking up some music – Vivaldi’s four seasons to be precise - and found 4 YouTube videos, one for each season. Each was a sand animation film by Ferenc Cakó, put to the [...]