Microsoft Education: for educators

 

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Online Photo Editing

 

There is a plethora of online photo editing sites out there and everyday a new one seems to get created. One of the biggest advantages for us is that we do not need to spend lots of money on image editing tools when all that is needed is an internet connection. Here are a few links for photo-editing sites.These are for your images that you can upload and edit.
Most of them have similar feature sets, but some of them are more friendly and easy to use.  The kids in my school seem to like picnik a lot and use it often.

   

 

 

 

3 Websites to download free eBooks

 

As teachers, we all need to foster the habit of reading. With ebooks, we do not have to worry about space and storage of actual books as we can build our libraries of ebooks.

I have come across 3 sites that offer free ebooks for download. The books are legal for download, in case you were wondering about how the whole free ebook downloading goes.

 

1. Manybooks.net

A huge collection of older novels that you can dow nload in many different ebook formats.

2. Getfreeebooks.com

A collection of more modern books on a variety of subjects. More books by new authors and first time authors and some free offers by publishing companies.

3. Bookyards.com

Their goal is to be the library to the world.  They currently have Bookyrds has a total of 17,008 books, 41,784 external web links, 4,197 news & blogs links, 384 videos, 32,963 Ebook links and access to hundreds of online libraries (800,000 Ebooks).  I have not verified it but its possible.

Well here we have it, more free ebooks for all top use. Have fun with this.

Current Events with theweekinrap.com

 

If you want to change your current events around a bit in the classroom, you could try showing the week in rap.  It is a summary of the news headlines in a short rap video usually under 1:30 minutes.

They also have a transcript so you can read the news beforehand. The news is entertaining, a bit US centric, but they are based in the US. They update every Friday, so if you live in Asia, it can be a  part of the new week’s classes.