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School Library Journal’s “Doers and Dreamers” includes new resources to help celebrate Black History Month.
Work on this Bill of Rights & Principles began in Palo Alto, California, on December 14, 2012. We convened a group of people passionate about learning, about serving today’s students, and about using every tool we could imagine to respond better to the needs of students in a global, interactive, digitally connected world.
Book Creator has been the standard for eBook creation on an iPad for quite some time. Now, with the recent update to the app, collaboration is possible between students or between an entire class. One student can begin working on an eBook in Book Creator and can export the file to a number of online storage platforms including Google Drive, Dropbox and Box. Another student with access to a shared folder within one of these platforms now has the option to download the original file and “open in” Book Creator. Further, multiple Book Creator files can now be merged on an iPad to create one final eBook from multiple iPads. All students can now contribute to a class eBook, upload their segment to a shared folder online and the teacher can download, “open in” Book Creator and combine the files into one collaborative class effort. The final book can then be published online as a PDF or ePub file.
Read more about this and 5 more ways to collaborate in the classroom using iPads at Edudemic.
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From the St. Charles Public Library (Illinois) comes this comprehensive listing of Books for Boys. Aimed mainly at middle school aged boys, there is lots to chew on here.
Educator Newsletter, Sept 2012… interesting ideas, links and resources for virtually all subject areas… National Geographic is not just about geography and science!
Check the American Library Association’s REaD Alert for February 2nd, 2012, where you’ll find the spotlight on Black History as well as the Top 10 Black History Books for Kids.
Read David Suzuki’s latest Science Matters column… on the importance of not only science education, but of having a scientific community which is free to speak publicly about the issues they are engaged in. Just in time for Freedom to Read Week… coming at the end of February.