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Yudu is a free library of digital content to read and explore. Find eBooks, magazines, and other documents as well as photos, music and podcasts and bookmarks and add them to your own library.
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“Bound by Law translates law into plain English and abstract ideas into ‘visual metaphors.’ So the comic's heroine, Akiko, brandishes a laser gun as she fends off a cyclopean 'Rights Monster' - all the while learning copyright law basics, including the line between fair use and copyright infringement.”
Teacher Resources
A collection of resources for a variety of subject areas
Browse A-Z - SnagFilms
Browse Free Documentaries from A-Z Watch and share free documentaries and snag documentary films.
LibriVox
LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. There are several options for listening. The first step is to get the mp3 or ogg files into your own computer:
VoiceThread - Group conversations around images, documents, and videos
"VoiceThread portal at nypl.voicethread.com where you can find and make copies of VoiceThreads created by the amazing staff of the New York Public Library. These Learning Modules include expert commentary explaining the background of the images and provide a starting point for further exploration and use of these source materials in the classroom."
Twitter for Libraries (and Librarians)
Article that discusses the relevance of twitter for libraries and gives examples of how some libraries are using it.
Flashlight Worthy - the Best Books Recommended
A blog that offers book recommendations, organized into interesting book lists
Main Page - Gutenberg
A well known source for many classic e-books that can be downloaded as webpages or PDFs. You could take a book and use it as a shared reading lesson using projecting onto a screen. You could use Diigo to highlight and identify key ideas, comment, ask questions, etc. Our tablets offer you further tools.
WorldImages
Access to the California State University IMAGE Project with almost 75,000 images,global in coverage and including all areas of visual imagery, organized into over 800 portfolios which are then organized into subject groupings. Images may be freely used for non-profit educ ational purposes
100 Best Blogs for School Librarians | Online College Tips - Online Colleges
With a US bias these 100 bloggers serve as good reference resource for learning about everything from library technology to young adult fiction
Internet Archive
Most people only think of Archive.org for the Wayback Machine, but it also offers up a huge selection of audio, video and text documents under the Creative Commons license.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Lesson plans, podcasts, and research for Shakespeare (with the emphasis on the 9 plays most frequently taught in schools). Folger is the home to one of the the world's largest collection of Shakespeare materials and to major collections of other rare Renaissance books, manuscripts, and works of art, the Folger serves a wide audience of researchers, visitors, teachers, students, families, and theater- and concert-goers
Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free | Open Culture
Download free MP3's of great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Authors include Twain, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Asimov, HG Wells, Jules Verne, etc. Also see link to free audio and video downloads of university/college lectures on many different topics
Alltop - Top Children's Literature News
Compilation of great children's literature news. Offers links as well
World Digital Library Home
National libraries from more than a dozen countries, in coordination with the United Nations' education agency, put some of humanity's earliest written works online April 21 with their launch of the World Digital Library, a web site in seven languages -- English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian -- that leads readers through a trove of rare finds
Children's Books Online - Read, Create & Share - BigUniverse.com
This s an award-winning web community devoted to beautiful children's picture books, online. It offers a "virtual bookshelf" that gives teachers a free resource to help build students' background knowledge, vocabulary, and love of reading. Students can create their own picture books with just a few clicks or can read countless other books written by students
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