Do you students really know how to distinguish authorative, quality web sites from some of the slanted or really untrustworthy web sites for their research?  We have posted an original video called “It’s a Jungle Out There” on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKV0Hi47bhs that can be used by librarians and/or teachers to teach students the eight critical [...]

Do you need some new ideas for great educational websites for your students?  Our January 2012 Infotopia newsletter has links to great websites as well as excellent teaching and learning ideas for students and teachers in grades K-12.  Just go to the following link to download the PDF.  Our newsletter is published monthly at: http://www.infotopia.info/newsletter.html [...]

This afternoon, I was working on AcademicIndex.net, our college search engine and web directory, when I discovered a great new resource for teachers and college students.   Funded by a grant from the California State Library, it provides lists of books available on a variety of topics.  It can be found at: http://openlibrary.org/ The exciting part [...]

If you received a new eReader as a present, be sure and check out a great web site–www.manybooks.net.  You can go through all the public domain FREE books that are available and select one that is compatible with your eReader.  You can search by author, title, genre, etc.  Then, select the type of file that [...]

Hello everyone.  I hope you had a great holiday with your family.  It seems everyone is getting e-readers.  Now, to figure out how to use them….that is the fun part.  Our local public library in McAllen, Texas now has Overdrive, and we can check out ebooks online.  One only needs a library card and a [...]

Have you checked out an eBook from your local public library yet?  I have been checking out books from the Philadelphia Public Library after joining for only $35 a year.  When I joined, I didn’t have access to free eBooks from my local public library.  I find that the Kindle books are the easiest to [...]

Have you tried out Kidtopia.info yet?  Elementary students and their teachers all over the world are discovering that they can do basic research on Kidtopia and find relevant information at their grade level.  Kidtopia.info was created by Mike and Carole Bell, a husband-wife teacher/librarian team who have over 35 years of experience each. Students love [...]