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"however, not all e-books will be available for lending." Hmmm....

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Barnes & Noble Nook E-Book reader reviews - CNET Reviews

• That said, Barnes & Noble is touting one very important new feature: the ability to lend out e-books you've purchased to friends for free for 14 days. The company says that you'll be able to send e-books to a friend's Nook, iPhone, or iPod Touch, select BlackBerry and Motorola smartphones, as well as Windows or Mac PCs that have the Barnes & Noble eReader software installed on them. However, not all e-books will be available for lending.
  

Interesting, when you get a chance-

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Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Does Homework Raise Attainment?

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  Does Homework Raise Attainment?

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ILLINOIS STYLE: Blind fifth-grader is triathlete -- chicagotribune.com

• DECATUR, Ill. - Joshua Nichol might be one of just a few
  fifth-graders with a triathlon-themed bedroom. The Maroa-Forsyth
  Grade School student has triathlon posters, cutouts and a drawer
  filled with memorabilia for the sport.
  Among the most special items in the drawer is Joshua's own
  medal, which he earned for completing his first triathlon last
  summer. Joshua took on the Rodney T. Miller Lakeside Triathlon's
  youth course, finishing the senior division's 200-meter swim,
  four-mile bike ride and 1.2-mile run in Fairview Park in July.
  "I saw a flier of it in school, and I wanted to do it," he
  said. "I thought it would be fun."
  Joshua, who is blind, took on the race alongside guide James
  Bragg, who helped him navigate the course.
  

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ALA | AASL Best Web sites for Teaching and Learning Top 25 Award

• Top 25 Web sites for Teaching and Learning   
  The "Top 25" Web sites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.
  
  
  Organizing and Managing
  
  Content Collaboration
  
  Curriculum Sharing
  
  Media Sharing
  
  Virtual Environments
  
  Social Networking and Communication
  • Diigo 
    Need help in organizing your favorite websites? Diigo is a social bookmarking site that allows users to save websites, as well as tag them, add sticky notes and annotations, and share them with other users in various groups.
    Tip: Sticky notes are an effective way to start a virtual conversation among teams of students on the merits of a website.
    • Diigo
      • The only bookmarking service in this top 25! comment by Graham Perrin
      • Seeking new teaching strategies? If you’ve got an old lesson that you want to
        breathe new life into, Curriki can help. It is a free member website where
        educators share ideas and hear from others in the profession.
        Tip: If you have a lesson that you love to teach with your
        students, share it with others. Everyone can be successful if we all help each
        other to be better teachers.
        • Wonder what I have to share ... think about it. comment by Amy Kelly-Graham
        • Primary Access 
          Capture your students' imagination with movie narratives based on primary sources. Primary Access is an online tool that allows students and teachers to combine text, visual, and sound elements, which are then combined to convey information about their chosen historical event or time frame. A library of Primary Access movies is available through a catalog by historical time period.
          Tip: Encourage active learning: have students choose a historical event or time frame to research and synthesize their information through a Primary Access movie.
          • Our Story 
            Create your story! Our Story permits users to develop and save collaborative timelines that can be personalized with annotations, photos, and videos. Stories (timelines) can be printed in book format, archived on DVD, or even sent as postcards.
            Tip: Teach your students to develop content-specific timelines that are linked to the teaching of research and information literacy skills.
            • Create your own social network for your classroom, your school group or your
              library. Share your ideas, pictures, and plans. Choose the features, a forum, a
              blog, members' pages, RSS feeds - whatever you would like to share and
              collaborate and control the membership.
              Tip: Classroom or library nings give students opportunities
              to learn how to effectively and safely be members of an online social
              network.
              • is this like blackboard but online and more reliable .less reliable??? comment by Amy Kelly-Graham

I have some info on Common Sense Media that I will pass along to you. This article relates to a study they recently did.

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Top News - High-tech cheating? Students see it differently

• Rather than blame technology for enabling cheating in schools, maybe it's time to rethink learning and assessment in the digital era
  • A recent report commissioned by Common Sense Media about the use of cell phones and the internet for cheating (see story) is representative of how students and adults can look at the same behavior or activity and have very different perceptions of technology's impact.

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The Killer App: Google Apps and Moodle Integration? | Learning is Change.

• Moodle does a very good job of monitoring students, giving assessments/grades, providing content, and doing discussion forums. It does not do a very good job of synchronous collaboration, wikis, email, or any of the other things that Google Apps does an amazing job at. I guess that is why Moodlerooms decided that it would be a great idea to get the two projects together and create an easy way to do single-sign-on.
  I am amazed at the potential for something like this. Imagine being able to log into your classes, your e-mail, your sites, and your docs all at one place. Well, after much working on my own installation, I would like to provide a simple how to for making this process happen in your Moodle instance:

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About Us | TechTechBoom

• TechTechBoom.com is a new BETA (code word for not fully finished) website and is a subsidiary of Mario Armstrong Media, LLC. (http://www.MarioArmstrong.com) What’s the mission? Simple, it’s a place to help teens to connect, be inspired, supported and motivated to pursue STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) academics and careers! We need more young minds wanting to fill our tech pipeline of the future.
  • The vision for this site was Mario Armstrong’s and he wanted it to be a cool and very informative tech hangout for teens but instead of hiring adults to design it (boring and done already) he wanted to flip the model. So his company hired 11 high school students from different grades, backgrounds and tech interests and they created what you see today, that being the first STEM website and community built by teens for teens! The site offers a cool hangout place, solid STEM information and resources all centered around STEM.
    • We want to be the hub of all science, technology, engineering and math content, news, events, scholarships, programs, contests, internships, mentoring and more. If it’s STEM and it involves teens – it will be on this site – no more islands of STEM info.

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ISTE | NETS for Administrators 2009

• Nets for administrators 2009
  
  

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Facebook | Coming Soon: Facebook Usernames

• UPDATE on Saturday, June 13: Username selection is now live at http://www.facebook.com/username/. Remember, choosing a username is optional and will give you a distinct Web address for your profile. It will not change the name that appears on your profile, in search or elsewhere on the site.

How's this for a perfect example of teaching kids the power/peril of posting images online?

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Stolen Picture at Extraordinary Mommy

• Stolen Picture
  May 28th, 2009
  
  
  So, this is the price we pay for indulging in social media, I guess.
  I am thrilled to have reconnected with so many friends on Facebook.  One of them sent me this message yesterday:
  Alright, so how’s this for random: I’m in the car, taking my wife for a check up, pass by a new grocery store and notice that they have a picture of you, your husband and two kids on the store front window. Life size. I kid you not. Will take a photo of it later today and send….
  What you don’t know from this message: this college friend lives in the CZECH REPUBLIC.

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Frazz free online comic strip library at comics.com

just got a lead on this site from a friend. he is going to start using it in his district this sept. they are going to start small & use it to have teachers post their PIPS & manage their PD logs electronically. there's MUCH MORE to it, but thought you might be interested.

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My Learning Plan

guidance counselor in my building is going to get one for her 5 year year old granson...she's REALLY excited-

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SJ’s Longest Now » G1G1 2008 : give a laptop, change the world

• G1G1 2008 : give a laptop, change the world

IS there any district data/stats on this issue?

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Leaving PCs on overnight costs companies $2.8B a year - USATODAY.com

• Leaving PCs on overnight costs companies $2.8B a year

The application dedline for this phase of the project is this Wed. 3.25 (sorry, I forgot to forward earleir!). Please forward to any teachers who you think might be interested-

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digiteen09-2 » home

• Welcome to the Digiteen 09-2, digital citizenship global project for April-May 2009.
  This is where schools and classrooms from around the world will discuss issues, research and take action to do with being online in the 21st century. The project also has a Digiteen Ning where students and teachers connect, interact, share multimedia and reflect on their experiences throughout the project.

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Top News - Text-to-speech reversal kindles disappointment

• Now, Amazon also finds itself the subject of a lawsuit by Discovery Communications--the parent company of The Discovery Channel and Discovery Education--over an alleged patent violation.

Check it out- VERY cool!

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Blip.fm | Global Music Radar | Page 1 of 1814

play around with this site when you have some free time this weekend. i got addicted pretty fast :)

Would be great for a party!

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Blip.fm | Global Music Radar | Page 1 of 1814

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A Green Social Networking Site for Teens - 3/11/2009 2:00:00 PM - School Library Journal

• A Green Social Networking Site for Teens
  • Call it the green Facebook. There’s a new social networking site where environmentally minded teens looking for a place to chat, share ideas, and learn about careers and university programs can now visit.
    • Sponsored by the Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF), the Weather Channel, and Philippe Cousteau, grandson of legendary sea-explorer Jacques Yves Cousteau, the recently launched Planet-connect.org is a site designed for teens by teens.

A GREAT "real-world" example of why we have to find new ways to engage learners (and it'll make you laugh!)

It made me reflect on some of the things we discussed in the last book club convo.

Have a happy day :)

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YouTube - Everything's amazing, nobody's happy