Useful sites (weekly)

• Amazon revokes Lendle’s API access (Update: We’re back!) – Lendle: Kindle™ Book Sharing

• Shape Collage Features Shape Collage would be useful when creating presentations. It gives you the power to make really quick collections of related photographs, set out in shapes that fit in to your display. It is free, but you need to upgrade to get rid of the watermark.

• Online Referencing Generator An online citation generator that is easy to use and and very clear for students. It usefully offers levels: Junior, Middle and Senior school. Created by School Library Association of South Australia  

• The Librarian’s Guide to Anime and Manga ‘Anime’ usually refers to Animation made in Japan, either on video, television or in comic book format. ‘Manga’ can be roughly translated to mean ‘comic book’. See this site for ways to explore this area of the graphic novel.    

• Learning with ‘e’s: 2020 teachers 

• About – WikiEducator Free online workshop on open content licensing for educators:

• Box.net | Online file sharing, content management, collaboration  

• HowStuffWorks “Are e-readers making books obsolete?” With e-reader and e-book sales on the rise, will printed and bound texts become things of the past?  

• Project Based Learning | BIE  A great source of information on Preject Based Learning

• BBC News – Computer games become a class act  BBC Report on computer games in schools. Early reports suggest that the use of gaming gadgets which younger people are familiar with can improve their performance and boost interest in subjects that they might otherwise not engage with.

• Accompaniments, free sheet music, and musicians interpretations for classical music works Weezic is your place to play classical music. Grab your instrument, print your sheet music and hit play to be accompanied by the whole orchestra.   

• Justin Tarte – Life of an Educator…: 10 videos that WILL ignite a discussion – Part 4  

• Reading List « Libraries and Transliteracy  Google Group–A reference list on information about all literacies for all types of libraries and librarians.

• 1 in 4 College Textbooks Will Be Digital By 2015  

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