Search tool for Free kindle books for kids

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...

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Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 06/29/2011

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...

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If you're at #iste11 and Serious about Global Collaboration: Today at 5pm

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, QatarThe audience will be peppered with our certified Flat Classroom teachers - those who have been through our new book (www.flatclassroombook.com)...

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Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 06/28/2011

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...

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Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 06/26/2011

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...

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Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 06/25/2011

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 he...

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My #iste11 sessions will go on without me

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...

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Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 06/23/2011

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....

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Organizer HD: a cool hybrid app for the #iPad

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...

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Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 06/22/2011

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...

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Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 06/19/2011

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...

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Over to you, Pearson

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

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Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 06/17/2011

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: ...

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Time to Get Angry about Reading

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...

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Join us for Flat Classroom Certified Teacher Presentation (Starting soon)

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...

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Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 06/16/2011

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 learningAugmented...

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