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 movie on a multi-track timeline plus transitions and effects.

• Stroome.com | mix it up. mash it out. Collaborative video editing community. Upload videos, share clips, then mix it up and mash it out. This tool uses the open source Kaltura video editor and is easy to use.

• Wallwisher: Free ESL Materials.com | Websites | Lesson Plans  Resources for using Wallwisher in the ESL Classroom

• 31 Free Adobe Photoshop Alternatives Tools For Image Manipulation You can just use Photoshop Alternatives to edit for simple piece of work. These Alternatives allows users to resize photos, some can does cropping and adjust colors, brightness, contrast by using various usable functions. Try hand on web based online photo editing sites that have no need of any expert knowledge just follow few simple steps and put final touch to any project.

• YourNextRead: Book Recommendations (USA) Similar to BookSeer. This is a book recommendation system showing aggregated book reviews, updated by real peoples opinions, in a simple visual map, helping you to decide ‘What Should I Read Next?’.

• ReadWriteThink: Students Materials: Character Trading Cards A creative (and interactive) english lesson plan that encourages character analysis. Students create a character card and come up with a story for a book character,. This is fun for students and it makes tham using their knowledge and writing skills to come up the final product. You can print the cards also for the students to keep.

• Become Social Networking Guru With 45 Handy Twitter Tools A lot of tools has been developed over time and some of them can really relief your Twitter experience and automate some time consuming actions.

• UD.com – The Ultimate Domain Name Checker for your Website, Twitter, Facebook This tool can not only find out if your desired website name is free on several different top level domains but also on a variety of different social networking sites.

• Make Your Own Free Multipurpose Web Page With Google Sites A post that offers information about how to make your own free multipurpose web pages using Google sites.

• William Shakespeare This site offers all things about William Shakespeare. It is a site that is rich in infomation about Shakespeare, his theatre, and his times. It is targeted towards educating students about life in London, the bubonic plague, and Elizabethan England.

• Author Magazine – You are the author of your own life. A free online magazine that is dedicated to writing and publishing and the creative processes in general.

• 250+ Free Stock Photography Sites | Media Militia A post highlighting sources of (and linking to) free stock images. You mshould read the rules and regulations for the stock at hand, being they are free. You may have to dig through some of the sites to find the free stock photos.  

• TABLEIZER! — Spreadsheets to HTML Tables Tool An easy-to-use and quick tool for creating HTML tables out of spreadsheet data.

• Unboxed – Yes, People Still Read, but Now It’s Social – NYTimes.com Article about how multitasking is affecting concentration, and other things. Nicholas Carr, who has a new book, “The Shallows,” argues that the compulsive skimming, linking and multitasking of our screen reading is undermining the deep, immersive focus that has defined book culture for centuries.

• Check Out Class Blogs! | The Edublogger A post that offers information for you to check out different types of class blogs to get ideas for your own class blog. You could also use this list to make connections with classes in other countries.

• Publius Project Essay by Matt Levinson and Deb Socia about digital citizenship.

• Book Trailer Resources Naomi Bates’ site for book trailer resources. It offers information about creating good book trailers as well as where you can find resources for creating your own.

• the uncommon nonsense “We ad moderately to INSANELY obsessed with reading interesting and entertaining young adult novels and we thought we’d share our musings with the world instead of only with the people around us who don’t seem to care that much… – we’ll try to let you know about new releases and forthcoming novels, as well as older books you may have missed… “

• between the lines Between the Lines is Penguin Australia’s dedicated space for young adult readers, writers and books.

• Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists! This site contains great book lists for YA readers (especially boys) Although primarily a review site it also has some interactivity enabling users to respond to reviews and submit their own. Includes links to other teen sites.

• Cassandra Clare Cassandra Clare’s site. The author of the Mortal Instruments series includes biography and other pages where you can find information on the art, interviews, FAQs and writing informationas well as information on the upcoming works she has in progress.

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.