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My friend Stephen Windwalker from Kindle Nation Daily has put together a great tool for searching and finding free books on the kindle . Now he has created one for just books for kids. Check out the free kindle book search tool for kids . I'll be gearing up to involve some more schools in this program in August, so sign our interest form if you think it will be beneficial to your school and students. I found it interesting that as many iPads as I heard there were this week at ISTE that when it came time to buy books that everyone was tweeting the link for the kindle app. The Brain Rules book written by John Medina was $2.99 on the Kindle and a whopping $12.99 on the iBook store. Unless an iBook has some super fantastic videos or interactive features, it just isn't worth the difference. - Posted using BlogPress from Vicki's iPad

Real Time Search - Social Mention Social mention lets you track what people are saying about you, your school or more. It looks like it works a lot like Google alerts. Another great way for administrators to monitor "the buzz" about their school, particularly if it has a hashtag. tags: education socialmedia brandmanagement Search PlanIt A lesson plan search engine for teacher lesson plans. tags: education teaching teacher all_teachers techintegrator professionaldevelopment PocketLiteracy.com - Home Website that sends you text messages to encourage literacy in their children. Great for parents or teaches. Interesting idea. tags: ...

Today, Tuesday, at 5pm in Rm PACC 123, Julie Lindsay will be leading a birds of a feather designed to help schools find each other and begin global collaboration. Flat Classroom Conference 2009 Doha, Qatar The audience will be peppered with our certified Flat Classroom teachers - those who have been through our new book ( www.flatclassroombook.com ) and have proven their ability to collaboration AND CARRY THROUGH via our projects. The audience will be salted with you... those of you who are ready to REALLY do it. So many teachers complain that it is hard to find classrooms that are ready to collaborate. Here is your chance. Please join us today. I hope to skype in to at least listen and say hi to some of you. If you cannot be there, here are some resources for you: Flat Classroom Project - Project for older grades, students must be 13 years and older to join this project. Applications open now for this year. This will run two times next year. Digiteen Project - Project...

Create a Facebook Page | Custom Fan Page Design - Pagemodo If you are a school and need help with your facebook page, this may be the option. Every school should have a facebook page in addition to your website.  tags: education facebook socialmedia edu_newapp technology techintegrator Twitter for Newsrooms – Twitter Media Twitter for newsrooms is out. This is a guide to help journalists. It is fascinating to watch journalists have to grapple with some of the most significant changes in their profession since Gutenberg's press. Citation: RT @web20classroom - New guide called Twitter for Newsrooms launches today #edtech20 #edchat #iste11 #edchat #ukedchat #socialmedia #engchat http://t.co/mmYNXYP tags: education media jou...

BJP's Books & Articles | Digitales Bernajean Porter has some of the best digital storytelling resources anywhere on the web! I love her new information about iPad storytelling apps. tags: education digitalstorytelling storytelling multimedia video ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard for iPad on the iTunes App Store RT @showmeapp: the wait is over!! ShowMe in the Apple app store: http://t.co/pYMDAJ7 #edchat #elearning @showmeapp team will be at #iste11! tags: edchat elearning iste11 twitter education ISTE | International Society for Technology in Education Unable to attend #iste11? Not to worry- We'll be covering the conference LIVE! Watch here: http://ow.ly/...

StoryJumper is a place to create and discover stories for kids. (RT @russeltarr) StoryJumper is a place to create and discover stories for kids.: http://tinyurl.com/64uxvbf tags: twitter education Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here .

Whoever says cheerleading isn't a sport needs to see how much icy hot, how many bruises, and how much sacrifice it is to do this sport. Last night I printed my boarding pass and zipped up my suitcase and then ran over to the school to get my daughter at 8:30 pm. I picked her up and she fell apart. She's been nursing a back injury for several weeks without telling anyone and tonight the stunt fell on her. With her cheerleading camp supposed to be next week, I have to be the one to take her to the doctor and make the call about whether she can attend as it may mean that she's off the squad (something that would kill her.) I don't have the answer but I do know who has to be the one to get the answer: me. This is one of the most important things in my daughter's life and she has a spine that she will have with her for the rest of her life. My Sessions will Go on! Julie Lindsay is running DigiTeacher along with some help from Barbara Barreda and a visit from A...

DigiTeacher workshop Excited about our workshop this upcoming Sunday at ISTE. It is almost full and it is going to be a lot of fun as well. Here is our public wiki so you can follow the participants as they share and learn. The best way to learn about digital citizenship is immersive and hands on! This is modeled as a face-to-face version of Digiteen and received excellent reviews last year. tags: education digitalcitizenship digiteacher digiteen Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here .

Organizer HD is the first of a new generation of hybrid planners that is finally bringing some good life management to my iPad. This handy app imports google calendar and allows tasks and even importing of Tweets on the same page. (Not sure on the Tweet thing.) I recommended it to my Dad and he likes it. It is a bit pricey at $9.99 and certainly is missing a few features like recurring tasks (but you can cut and paste them from screen to screen.) It is something I can use and keep coming back too as I wrangle the bull into a steer that will pull a work wagon. - Posted using BlogPress from Vicki's iPad

Involve, Prepare, Apply, and Develop: iPads in the Classroom Four key principles to integrating the iPad in the classroom! http://bit.ly/hwl75J #ipadchat #edchat #edtech #K12 tags: ipadchat edchat edtech K12 twitter education Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here .

NetFront Life A viewer for microsoft office docs that works with evernote on the android platform. Evernote has a ton of android apps that are being released from third party developers. tags: education app edtech evernote edu_news Evernote Trunk | Evernote Corporation Play a memory game with your evernote notes on your ipod touch or iphone. tags: education evernote app edtech edu_trends edu_news Study Blue Interfaces with Evernote Take notes out of evernote and put them into a flashcard maker. Although the best student notetaking software, I believe, is and continues to be One NOte - the incredible apps and evernote trunk are attracting students becau...

Over to you, Pearson. Www.flatclassroombook.com Cutting up with my sister, running on no sleep. Posted using BlogPress from Vicki's iPad

BibMe: Fast & Easy Bibliography Maker - MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian - Free A very easy bibliography maker tags: education citations ISTE Newbie Swag - ISTE Newbie Project Here is the official ISTE Newbie site along with Newbie-wear for ISTE 2011. tags: education iste11 iste2011 International Society for Technology in Education - Blog > ISTE Newbie Project Enters Third Year: Help Send an Emerging Ed Tech Leader to ISTE 2011 This year's ISTE Newbie project has selected George Couros to come to ISTE 2011. What a great selection If you'd like to help, please read more! tags: education iste Newbie Project | Nebraska Ch...

One third of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. Forty two percent of college graduates never read another book after college. Eighty percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year. Jenkins group Is education killing the future of those it is designed to inspire? Are we lighting the love for learning or dousing the flames of potential greatness?  When will we wake up? Reading nourishes my life, soul, and essence. When I have a problem, I find a book. I have an affection for my Kindle. I collect books signed by authors. Books improve my life in very real ways from helping me lose weight, to be a better parent, to being a better wife and teacher.    Brian Tracy says: " Earl Nightingale said many years ago that one hour per day of study in your chosen field was all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you’ll be a national a...

I've been writing for days - maybe I've slept 10 hours since Sunday - I don't know. But I do know that global collaboration is important to education, maybe more important than ever. If you're online in fifteen minutes we have our second class of Flat Classroom certified teachers about to present. They're in the room now and nervous - http://tinyurl.com/fcpcert11-1 is the Blackboard Collaborate Room. We sure could use some people to observe and ask questions and you can also learn some about constructing global collaborative projects from some of the best. (I'm sure we'll learn from you.) I don't know how much I'll talk today, I'm so very tired. Been playing old movies streaming via Netflix onto my iPad 2. I'm on Chariots of fire for the second time. Lots of races finishing today. Join us!

Time to Grow | dotSUB Here is the time to grow Keynote that Julie and I did not so long a go. Was listening to it and I think the message is still relevant. It is about change and a willingness to grow. tags: education learning inspiration ARiSE: HOME "A new way of learning Augmented Reality in School Environments - A European Research Project - Technological advances in the field of information and communication technologies enable innovative ways to mediate knowledge. Among them, Augmented Reality (AR) becomes increasingly a field of interest. Integrated in e-learning systems, AR will provide innovative ways to transfer knowledge in education. This is the purpose of the project Augmented Reality in School Environments (ARiSE). The aim is to create an innovative teaching aid, enabling teachers to develop, with a moderate e...