Useful sites (weekly)

  by  CanadianAEh 

•  Tim Wynne-Jones Home Page Author’s official website  

• What Happens When an Ebook Gets Updated? | Digital Book World  

• Elastic Theme Editor | Change the way you think about WordPress themes 

• Can EBooks Help Bridge Achievement Gaps?| The Committed Sardine  

• Dymvue: Libraries gave us power *  

• The Future of Mobile Tagging in Marketing, Branding & Communications Interesting piece on ReadWriteWeb of PSFK’s Future of Mobile Tagging report  

• Learning with ‘e’s: I have it within me… Doug Belshaw, education, Engaging learning, music, NASA moon landings, purpos/ed, school, science, Technology  

• Super library arrives as hundreds of others face closure | Books | The Guardian   

• Why libraries must be saved: Tony Parsons, Kate Mosse, Julia Donaldson and Carol Ann Duffy back campaign – mirror.co.uk  

• The World’s Most Blocked Websites OpenDNS, one of the most popular DNS services on the Internet, is frequently used by parents and organizations to block websites that they think are inappropriate for children or may hamper productivity at the workplace. OpenDNS, which claims to handle DNS requests for 1% of Internet users worldwide, has released a report detailing a list of top 10 websites that are most frequently blocked by home users and business users.  

• Children who use the library are twice as likely to be above average readers | National Literacy Trust  

• National Literacy Trust research reveals widening gender gap in boys’ and girls’ attitudes towards reading and writing | National Literacy Trust Children, Reading Champions, Reading Connects, Reading The Game, Schools & teaching, Words for Work, Young People

• National Literacy Trust The National Literacy Trust is an independent charity that transforms lives through literacy. Initiatives encourage literacy across the board, through reading and writing initiatives, including talking to your baby, sharing picture books together and reading for pleasure as a adult.

• Challenges, change and trends 2011 

• Welcome to M86VuSafe.com A free website that lets educators search for relevant video content from YouTube and other sources, add video clips from these sources to an online library, and then share these clips with their students—without the inappropriate ads, comments, or outside links that might accompany them.  

• How-and why-to teach innovation in our schools | 21st Century Education | eSchoolNews.com Reading and thinking about: How—and why—to teach innovation in our schools Currently, we are encouraged to chasse testable competency in academic core skills. It is quite different thing to try to educate future innovators.  

• Yodio – Add voice to photos A free audio recording site. You do not need to register your phone with the site to create ateacher account for the students to record into. Could be used to create digital storybooks for one example 

• iPads in Education – Exploring the use of iPads and Tablet computers in education. ”Tablet computing and personal electronic devices such as iPads promise to have a dramatic impact on education. This Ning network was created to explore new and innovative ways iPads and other portable devices could be used in schools and colleges.” 

• Three Trends That Will Shape the Future of Curriculum | MindShift Outlines three digital media and learning trends gaining traction: interest-based learning, web 2.0 skills, digital delivery. 

• Home | The Official James Patterson Website Home page for crime writer James Patterson  

• Terry Pratchett – UK Website : Homepage Updated Terry Pratchett website from his uk publishers  

• Chris Ryan Adventures The official site for the SAS hero turned author.  

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