Akademos Textbook Adoption Tool

http://adoption.akademos.com/

The Akademos online portal aims to reduce textbook costs by allowing faculty to access and compare textbooks across 3,600 subjects and 2 million books. The Akadmos Comparison Wheel allows faculty to find their courses, view relevant textbooks by school adoptions, and save textbooks for later adoption. The tool, which is free for faculty, features peer reviews and an unbiased database of textbooks from both large and small publishers, including digital and eBooks, as well as Open educational Resource textbooks and content.

Books for on iPad - What works?

Folks - Could anyone please advise me as to what eBooks work on the iPad? Here's a list of ebook providers from the Flagler County website. Are there others? THANKS!!!

• Google E-Bookstore - Free ebook selections compatible with many devices
• Open Library - Over 1,000,000 Free eBooks & more added all the time!
• InkMesh - A search engine that searches more than thirty online sources for free e-books
• Baen Books - Over 120 Science fiction and fantasy titles available, with new titles added every month.
• Internet Archive - Films, books, music & texts in many downloadable formats
• Project Gutenberg - Project Gutenberg makes ebooks and e-audiobooks available for some of the same great literature available in plain text.
• ManyBooks - Includes Project Gutenberg titles and beyond.
• Feedbooks - "A place to discover and publish ebooks"
• LibriVox E-audiobooks in the Public Domain
• Literal Systems -"Audiobooks you just can't buy"
• The Online Books Page University of Pennsylvania offers an index of hundreds of thousands of online books freely readable
• EBook Fling - Swap ebooks for free with other readers nationwide while still retaining ownership!
• The Spoken Alexandria Project - free Creative Commons library of spoken word recordings, consisting of classics in the public domain and modern works.

Mozilla Thimble

Make Your Own Webpages:

Blurb from their webpage: "Thimble makes it ridiculously simple to create your own web pages. Write and edit HTML and CSS right in your browser. Instantly preview your work. Then host and share your finished pages with a single click. Easy, huh?"


https://thimble.webmaker.org/en-US/ 

Worldmapper

http://www.worldmapper.org/


Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. There are now nearly 700 maps. Maps 1-366 are also available as PDF posters. 

Gapminder

http://www.gapminder.org/

Gapminder World shows the World’s most important trends. Data, videos, downloads, and labs.

Video Primers in an Online Repository for e-Teaching & Learning

http://www.indiana.edu/~icy/media/de_series.html 


Dr. Curt Bonk, Professor in Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University, in a video series addressing the design and best practices of Distance Education courses. The videos are about 10 minutes long and each topic is accompanied by a list of useful resources. 

TED Talks organized in a growing Google Spreadsheet

Google Spreadsheet updated regularly with TED Talks (1204 at this posting) at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsKzpC8gYBmTcGpHbFlILThBSzhmZkRhNm8yYllsWGc&hl=en#gid=0