Useful sites (weekly)

  by  Mathieu Thouvenin  Revision with GoogleDocs – Google For Educators ”Revision is a critical piece of the writing process—and of your classroom curriculum. Now, Google Docs has partnered with Weekly Reader’s Writing for Teens magazine to help you teach it in a meaningful and practical way. On this page, you will find several reproducible PDF articles from [...]

Image sharing with Min.us

In a world where many applications aim to everything for us I have found one today that does not. Min.us does just one thing, and it does it quite well, it shares images. As long as you’re using Firefox 3.6, Google Chrome or Internet Explorer 9 you can simply drag and drop images into Min.us. This tool is useful for anyone [...]

YA literature – Printz award winners and a podcast

Thanks to a post on the Fiction Focus (CMIS) site, I found out about  a collection of book trailers. These have been created for many of the Printz Award winners and Honor Books and go back as far as 2000. They were created by students at the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Women’s University. The Michael [...]

Useful sites (weekly)

DownloadTube Is a One-Click YouTube Conversion and Download Site  Thanks to @Lifehacker “If you’re looking for a simple, one-click, solution for converting and downloading YouTube videos sans software, DownloadTube is a free tool for web-based YouTube file conversion. Copy the URL of the video you want to convert, visit DownloadTube and paste it in, then [...]

Latest Ranger’s Apprentice Trailers

The trailers for the next Ranger’s Apprentice book certainly whet the appetite for the next installment. Msny of our boys really like this series. The books are great adventures with a hint of fantasy (but not). The book is due out on the 1st of November – in time for Christmas The trailers are short and [...]