Read and Download 250+ Art Books from the Getty Museum

Six months ago I shared with you the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of nearly 400 free art history books . Now the Getty Museum...

Borrow and Lend eBooks Through Open Library

If you're looking for a new-to-you ebook to read during the holidays, take a look at Open Library. The Open Library is a part of the In...

Video - How to Create Google Scholar Libraries and Alerts

Google Scholar , like Google Books , is one of the research tools that students often overlook when searching on the web. Google Scholar can...

Video - How to Use Google Books for Research

Google Books can be a good research tool for students if they are aware of it and know how to use it. In the video below I provide a short ...

A Short Guide to Using Google Books for Research

Google Books is one of the research tools that Google offers, but a lot of students overlook. Google Books can be a good place for students...

Is Denali Shrinking? - A Mountain Math Lesson

Thanks to The Adventure Blog over the weekend I learned that Denali - AKA Mt. McKinley - has been re-measured. The mountain is now listed 8...

Upload Your Own PDFs and EPUBs to Google Play Books

This evening Google announced a great update to Google Play Books. You can now upload your own PDFs and EPUB files to Google Play Books. Up...

Free Copies of Dracula - And Google Books for Educators

Today's Google doodle remembers Bram Stoker's birthday . If you click through today's Google doodle you'll find a slew of li...

Google Books for Android Gets Handy Updates

Google Books for Android has become my go-to reading app on my Nexus 7 and on my Galaxy Tablets over the last year. The wealth of free publi...

Where Are My Apps, Books, and Music? In Google Play!

The big Google news that I missed this afternoon while I was flying to the NCTIES conference is that Google announced the rebranding of th...

Mount Everest, How Tall Is It? - A Mathematics Mystery

Image Credit: Carsten.Nebel Last night I started to read Mount Everest, The Reconnaissance 1921 which I downloaded for free from Google Boo...

Map Fast - Find Books About Places via Google Maps

mapFAST is a great use of Google Maps for finding texts about places all over the world. Visit mapFAST, type in a location and mapFAST will...

9 Sources for Historical Images, Documents, Videos, and Audio

Earlier this week I had the privilege to work with teachers from the Florida Virtual School at a conference sponsored by the National Counci...

10 Common Challenges We'll Face This Fall - Challenge #3: Differentiation

Image Credit: Nickwheeleroz One of my most popular presentations, the one that I'm most frequently asked to give , is 10 Common Chall...

Google Books for Educators - A How-to Guide

Google Books is a great place to find all kinds of books and magazines that you can preview and or read for free online or on your ereader ...

Open Library Read and Borrow Books Online

The Open Library is a part of the Internet Archive . The Open Library is a collection of more than one million free ebook titles. The coll...

Graph Google Books Over Time

A couple of months ago Google launched a new application in Google Labs (the experimental section of Google products) called the Books Ngram...

Read Jules Verne's Works for Free

Did you notice the Google logo today? If not, go see it now . Today's logo was designed to commemorate Jules Verne's 183rd birthday....

Get Free Books for Your Kindle (or other ereader)

If you or someone in your house got a new Kindle for Christmas, you're probably looking to load that thing up with good things to read ...

New Google eBookstore Includes Many Free Titles

Today, Google launched Google eBooks. Google eBooks , not to be confused with the similar sounding Google Books, is a designed to provide a...