Useful Links (Weekly)

  by  CanadianAEh 

 The quote seems to be timely at this part of our school year

• A Guide to Ebook Purchasing | American Libraries Magazine An interesting article by Sue Polanka in the magazine of the American Library Association   

• Education Eye – Mapping Innovations EducationEye allows the user to discover, explore and share new ideas. It maps hundreds of top educational websites, blogs, forums and case studies to provide up to date information about innovative ideas being explored in the education community. The information is then present in a visual format that is itself interactive. Type in your search term and let it find the relevant articles, websites or links. This is a innovative tool from Futurelab and well worth a visit    

• What Makes A Great Curator Great? How To Distinguish High-Value Curation From Generic Republishing   

• GoLocalProv | News | Julia Steiny: Kids Are Way Ahead of Us as Digital Learners   

• Webinars – Google Apps for Education This page provides links to forthcoming and archived webinars on topics relevent to using Google Apps for education. For more videos and webinars, visit the Google Apps YouTube channel.  

• Baker Ebook Framework 3.0 Baker lets you publishing rich, interactive books on App Store that can be used for the iphone and ipad. Build your book using HTML5 pages prepared for the iPad and iPhone screen.  

• LinkBunch – Put multiple links into one – http://linkbun.ch LinkBunch lets you put multiple links into one small link which you can share over IM, Twitter, email or even a mobile phone SMS. The tiny LinkBunch link presents a page that contains all the links that you put in the bunch. Click any of those links to visit the desired page.

• Online summarize tool (free summarizing) Summarize automatically creates a summary from your text entered either directly or from the address of a webpage. The most common words are also listed.  

• Plagiarism | Common Craft A quick and easy-to-follow video introduction of the basics of plagiarism and how to avoid it.  

• 7 Tips for Citing an App in MLA Format | edSocialMedia ”Although the Modern Language Association doesn’t specifically have citation guidelines for apps, it does provide a format for ‘software found on the internet’ which describes apps quite accurately”  

• 10 Beneficial Facebook Pages For Educators To Check Out – Genieo – Your personal homepage  

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