Useful Links (Weekly)

  by  mikefisher821  Ebook Search Engine, Free Ebooks, Ebook Price Comparison | Inkmesh Ebook search engine to find free ebooks and compare ebook prices for the Kindle, iPhone, Nook, Sony Reader etc.     http://learningfundamentals.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Focus-mindmap-for-web.jpg A great mindmap that focuses on the age of distraction and shows how to deal with technology overload     9 New Skills You Need To be a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Australian student’s book trailer nomination

A post on OZTL_NET,  by teacher librarian Stacey Graham from Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School, Tarro, NSW,  alerted me to this.  The School Library Journal has a competition for book trailers, the Trailee Award. The site is worth investigating and the final nominees are online  for our viewing (and voting) pleasure. There are six categories, with each having four finalists. One of these [...]