Google has added a new feature to Search that will show you if your local library has the ebook you’re looking for in stock. If you’re old like me and didn’t know that you could borrow ebooks, well you can, and many libraries across the US have a digital collection that you can borrow from….
A lot of the ebooks from Project Gutenberg suffer from poor typography and transcription errors. Standard Ebooks is fixing that: Ebook projects like Project Gutenberg transcribe ebooks and make them available for the widest number of reading devices. Standard Ebooks takes ebooks from sources like Project Gutenberg, formats and typesets them using a carefully designed and professional-grade…
WriteReader looks like a fun and easy way for students to digitally publish their books. The site is free to use, there are only costs if you would like a print or download a book. If you would like access to ebooks you can use in your classroom, then checkout the WriteReader library. There are…
Students can easily publish ebooks with My Storybook. Once the students have accounts created (if the students don’t have email addresses, My Storybook has directions on what to do), the creation process is pretty straight forward. On the left side of the screen are the four tools that are available. Items – Built-in clipart sorted by…
As Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble launched their respective eBook readers in 2007 and 2010, there were many who rushed to predict that the printed book would soon be meeting an untimely end. New data from the Pew Research Center now suggests that your standard paper, ink, and glue novel has considerable staying power with…
Most presentations are linear in format, one slide after another. What if you wanted to make it more interactive, allowing your students to choose the path they take? Well, you can with Google Slides. I’ve made the sample presentation public so you can see how the final product works. The following video shows how you…
As part of the White House’s ConnectED initiative Safari Books Online has teamed with O’Reilly Media to offer free access to hundreds of eBooks. To access the books you will need a verified Edmodo or Clever account (I haven’t figured out what they mean by a “personal” log in that is an option). One downside is…