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Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. More

Just like Wikipedia, you can contribute new information or corrections to the catalog. You can browse by subjects, authors or lists members have created. If you love books, why not help build a library?

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Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.

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I created this list of fourteen websites that offer free eBooks for teachers because I love integrating technology into my classroom!

With every lesson, I try to think of at least one element that I can convert from a traditional format into something digital or electronic. Sometimes, it's as easy as swapping the traditional print version with an eBook!

For those of you who are interested in using eBooks in your classroom, keep in mind that NOT every book is available in eBook format.

Most of the websites listed below only offer FREE eBook versions of works that are public domain or works that they have permission from the author.
So, without any further ado:
4. Free-eBooks.net
This site lets you browse thousands of eBooks from new, up-and-coming authors.

8. Open Culture
Open Culture provides links to 500 free eBooks including Don Quixote, Heart of Darkness, The Red Badge of Courage, Les Miserables, Animal Farm, MacBeth and The War of the Worlds.

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Freely download all kinds of documents (including eBooks) covering thousands of different topics.

14. TeachersPayTeachers
This awesome website is home to TONS of freebies for teachers, by teachers. These freebies include eBooks containing grade-appropriate worksheets, activities, crafts and more! Click here to visit my store on TeachersPayTeachers.
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Have you ever used eBooks in your class instead of traditional texts? What did you think? Did your students enjoy it? Let me know in the comments below!
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I created this list of fourteen websites that offer free eBooks for teachers because I love integrating technology into my classroom! With every lesson, I try to think of at least one element that I can convert from a traditional format into something digital or electronic.

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The Design Files | Australia's most popular design blog.

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WELL, I must admit, I'm extremely excited about this one, people!

Just a few weeks ago, I was incredibly fortunate to travel up to Sydney with a small team (hi SIRAP, hi Sean Fennessy), for a very special shoot at Sydney Opera House. This project offered a once in a lifetime opportunity to spend a day documenting the world's most recognisable building, in celebration of a very special collaboration with Sheridan.

As Alan Croker, architect and Sydney Opera House heritage consultant says, there is something about The Sydney Opera House that really does inspire excellence from all who come into contact with it. We certainly felt that pressure on our shoot - how could we photograph this iconic building in a way that somehow looked and felt different to the way it had been captured so many times before?

TODAY we launch the resulting film. It's a beautiful, succinct little snapshot of Australia's most iconic building - and the backstory of a truly special collaboration between two likeminded Australian brands.
The limited edition Sydney Opera House x Sheridan collection is available in-store and online. Paying homage to Sheridan's founder Claudio Alcorso, the collection of bedlinen, wall art and decorator pieces has been designed in collaboration with the Sydney Opera House team, capturing its enduring beauty from a unique new perspective. Film by SIRAP, photographs by Sean Fennessy, and creative direction by Lucy Feagins.

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WELL, I must admit, I'm extremely excited about this one, people! Just a few weeks ago, I was incredibly fortunate to travel up to Sydney with a small team (hi SIRAP, hi Sean Fennessy), for a very special shoot at Sydney Opera House.

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In and After Class

Science is about ideas. Teaching is about bringing it to life. Bring science alive with resources that help you entertain and engage.

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As a #YoungScientist you have a unique view on the world. Explore how science is applied everywhere around you.

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Enjoy exploring the science of everyday life together as a family. Science applied to your home inside and outside everyday.

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Economically depleted but filled with the desire to pose questions about the future in radically new ways, postwar Europe would prove fertile ground for the development of avant-garde art. Though that environment produced a fair few stars over the second half of the twentieth century, their work represents only the tip of the iceberg: bringing the rest out of the depths and onto the internet has constituted the last few years' work for Forgotten Heritage. A collaboration between institutions in Poland, Belgium, Croatia, Estonia, and Germany supported by Creative Europe, the project offers a database of European avant-garde art - including many works still daring, surprising, or just plain bizarre - never properly preserved and made available until now.

Forgotten Heritage's About page describes the project's goal as the creation of "an innovative online repository featuring digitised archives of Polish, Croatian, Estonian, Belgian and French artists of the avant-garde movement occurring in the second half of the 20th century," meant to eventually contain "approximately 8 thousand of sorted and classified archive entries, including descriptive data."

Currently, writes Hyperallergic's Claire Voon, its site "offers visitors around 800 records to explore, from documentation of artworks to texts. The majority of works stem from to the '60s and '70s, as a timeline illustrates, with the most recent piece dating to 2005. This interactive feature, which has embedded links to individual artists's biographies and examples of their artworks, is one way to explore the well-designed archive."

Forgotten Heritage thus makes it easy to discover artists previously difficult for even the avant-garde enthusiast to encounter. Visitors can also browse the growing archive by the medium of the work: painting (like Jüri Arrak's , 1972, seen at the top of the post), installation (Wojciech Bruszewski's , 1980), film (Anna Kutera's The Shortest Film in the World, 1975), "photo with intervention" (Edita Schubert's Phony Smile, 1997), Olav Moran's "Konktal" and many more besides.

Voon cites Marika Kuźmicz's estimate that about 40 percent of it, mostly from Belgian and Estonian artists, has never before been available online. Debates about whether an avant-garde still exists, in Europe or anywhere else, will surely continue among observers of art, but as a visit to Forgotten Heritage's digital archives reveals, the avant-garde of decades past, when rediscovered, retains no small amount of artistic vitality today.

via Hyperallergic
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Based in Seoul, Colin Marshall writes and broadcasts on cities and culture. His projects include the book The Stateless City: a Walk through 21st-Century Los Angeles and the video series The City in Cinema. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall or on Faceboo k.

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The Art of Europe's Forgotten Avant-Garde Artists Now Digitized and Put Online

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Economically depleted but filled with the desire to pose questions about the future in radically new ways, postwar Europe would prove fertile ground for the development of avant-garde art.

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by Susan Stephenson, www.thebookchook.com

"Fake news" is a term that has exploded in popularity recently. It is often used to describe articles and memes that have been deliberately fabricated to manipulate opinion or misinform. Many educators prefer to concentrate on developing critical media literacy skills in students rather than buying into a debate over whether news is fake or not. However, I want the title of my article today to reflect what people may use in a Search. Librarians and teacher librarians are experts in helping kids detect and avoid fakery so be sure to ask them for help. But if you don't have such an expert handy, or you're looking for a checklist and a PDF infographic to help kids start analysing a website, let's go!

Tips for Detecting Fake News

* How does the website look? Are there lots of ads, or sensational images that may have been faked?

* Does the story push only one idea, and is that idea wacky?

* Does the story have poor spelling and overdone punctuation? Sometimes this can indicate a source you can't trust. Look for overuse of exclamation marks, words in all capital letters, weak grammar skills.

* Dig deeper. Search to investigate the site. Check out the About page or section. Is the url one to trust, or be wary of? Sometimes urls look similar to legitimate ones to try to trick people.

* Investigate the author. Search their name. If there's no author name at all, that can be a sign of a fake site.

* Get past the headline. What's the whole story?

* Check out the links and sources. Do they support the story? If there are no reliable sources mentioned, an article might just be someone's opinion, or a lie.

* Check any dates. People can twist a story and fake a date.

* Did the story start out as a joke or satire? Is it a hoax? Is it on other news sites?

* Are you biased? Is this something you WANT to believe?

* Ask librarians or use fact-checking sites.

Thanks to FactCheck for the tips above which I have tried to simplify. Below is an image of a PDF infographic called Be A Fake News Detector! that I've created. It may help kids look for clues as to whether a website is reliable or not, and is based on the tips above. If you're a parent, teacher or librarian who works with kids, you can find it and download it for free via my website.

Note: Kids need supervision online and lots of guidance navigating the internet. Some of the sites mentioned here may have content not suitable for kids. Do take advantage of incidental moments with kids, whether online or with any media, to have them reflect on a communication - what is its purpose and who is the target audience?

+ My tips above are mostly based on an article at the Fact Check website which investigates and helps us detect fakery.

+ First Draft is a project set up to fight misinformation and disinformation online. Although mostly aimed at journalists and journalism students, it has many helpful resources for anyone interested in media literacy.

+ SNOPES is a website where you can find not just political, but a range of stories that have been investigated and pronounced untrue.

+ Nowadays, not just text but many images are deliberately manipulated and spread to misinform. I have chosen to concentrate on text here but Tin Eye Reverse Image Search is one tool that can help discover where an image first appeared.

+ Factitious is a game where you get to read and decide if news is fake or not.

+ The FART test is one way of figuring if a website smells off. For some reason this acronym very much appeals to students.

+ It can be useful to have students look at websites that have been deliberately set up as fake, but also as teaching tools to help kids learn about fakery. Some I have seen recommended are Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus, All About Explorers, and Dog Island. Can students come up with their own creative ideas to persuade others something fake is true? I don't believe it trivialises a serious subject to have some fun with it, so I've added my own contribution about drop bears as one example below.

Are you getting ready to celebrate Children's Book Week in August? You might also be interested in:

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by Susan Stephenson, www.thebookchook.com "Fake news" is a term that has exploded in popularity recently. It is often used to describe articles and memes that have been deliberately fabricated to manipulate opinion or misinform. Many educators prefer to concentrate on developing critical media literacy skills in students rather than buying into a debate over whether news is fake or not.

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Explore the stories behind the art. g.co/streetart #streetartproject

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Common Sense Education provides educators and students with the resources they need to harness the power of technology for learning and life. Find a free K-12 Digital Citizenship curriculum, reviews of popular EdTech apps, and resources for protecting student privacy.

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Museum of Science and Industry: Simple Machines Game

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Game with challenges to create simple machines that help adorable-but-lazy Twitch do his work.