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Poem Flow for iPhone and iPod

http://www.poemflow.com/about

About Poem Flow via kwout

As many of you know, we are HUGE poetry fans at The Unquiet Library!  National Poetry Month is only six weeks away, so why not get pumped off for the celebrations by getting the free Poem Flow app for your iPod or iPhone?

The iTunes store  highlights these features on their app preview page for Poem Flow:

Poem Flow puts a poem-of-the-day in the palm of your hand. Each day a new poem happens. When you turn a poem on its side, the text flows in a gentle reading animation. Poem Flow introduces you to poems you haven’t met, and lets you see (and share) old poems anew.

Experience a Poem Flow at:

http://www.poemflow.com

Features:

• Text converts to animation with the turn of your hand.
• Motion + Text + Light = a movie that you watch to read.
• You get a new poem every day from a mix of the greatest poems in English.
• Previous poems persist, building a book on your device.
• Everyone reads the same poem on the same day creating instant, invisible community.
• Geolocation (with permission) reveals where and when a poem was last read.
• Share a Poem Flow with anyone with or without an Apple device.
• You get 20 great poems for free, including a full week of poem-of-the-day.
• Additional poems can be purchased for less than a penny a poem.
• You can learn a poem from a Poem Flow.
• The Academy of American Poets provides context for each poem and poet.
• Great for learning English, and for sharing some of the world’s most beautiful thoughts.

For more about this app, visit: http://www.poemflow.com/about

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Download Free LibraryThing Local Books App and Find The Unquiet Library!

The Unquiet Library is now an official venue in the LibraryThing Local Books app for iPhone/iPod!  You can read more about this cool new app and get the link to the free app in iTunes by reading this terrific post at the LibraryThing blog.  You can search for our library by the name, The Unquiet Library, or by our zip code, 30115.   Once you find us, you will find links to our library website, our library blog, and our library catalog!  Check it out and let us know what you think!

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Live Today at Noon: Web 2.0 Start Pages as RSS Readers and other Ramblings

Here is a topic of special interest from Classroom 2.0; if you can’t attend live, the session will be recorded, and you can watch at a time that works for you!

Date: Sat., August 22, 2009
Time: 9:00am Pacific/10:00am Mountain/11:00am Central/12:00pm Eastern
Location: In ElluminateI at http://tinyurl.com/cr20live (Links to other time zones and meeting room can be found at http://live.classroom20.com/.)

This Saturday, August 22nd, Kim Caise, Lorna Costantini and Peggy George will be hosting another Classroom 2.0 LIVE show. As an extension to the Classroom 2.0 community, Classroom 2.0 “LIVE” shows are opportunities to gather with other educators in real-time events, complete with audio, chat, desktop sharing, and sometimes even video.  A Google calendar of upcoming shows is available at http://live.classroom20.com/calendar.html. If you haven’t used Elluminate before, we encourage you to view this tutorial to prepare for the Elluminate session: Elluminate tutorial video.

The topic this Saturday will be “Web 2.0 Start Pages as RSS Readers and other Ramblings” with special guest Shamblesguru aka Chris Smith. Please join us as Shamblesguru shares examples of start pages, how to create and ways to use them as RSS readers. More information and session details are at http://live.classroom20.com. If you’ve never participated in a live webinar, don’t be afraid to come and observe. ‘Dip your toes in’ the conversations until you feel comfortable enough to “jump into the conversations with both feet”! We want to encourage “experienced Web 2.0 users” to join us by contributing and extending the conversation by sharing real-life examples and tips/suggestions.

On the Classroom 2.0 LIVE! site (http://live.classroom20.com) you’ll find the recordings for our recent “Exploring AllaboutExplorers.com” show with special guests Gerald Aungst and Lauren Zucker. Click on the “Archive” tab to view recordings.

Special thanks to our sponsor, Elluminate, for providing the forum that allows us to do this!

Visit Classroom 2.0 at: http://www.classroom20.comLive Today at Noon: Web 2.0 Start Pages as RSS Readers and other Ramblings

Categories: Learning 2.0, Online Classes/Webinars, Web 2.0 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Future of Books and Reading

This past Wednesday, “The Future of Education” series hosted by the wonderful Steve Hargadon held a webinar called “The Future of Books and Reading”.  This free web event was recorded, and you can watch the broadcast via Elluminate, which you can install/download for free.

You can access the event by going to this link at the Future of Education.  Look for the link at the top that says “Full Elluminate Recording”; it will take just a few minutes for you to install and load the Elluminate platform/recording at no charge.  Here is how Steve describes the conversation/ panel discussion:

There are dramatic changes taking place that seem likely to change our experiences with books and reading. They include: pre-publication “wikified” collaboration, electronic delivery, open licensing, increased author-reader and reader-reader conversation, shared annotations, and more. Join this amazing panel as we peer into the near and long-term future of the reading experience.

If you are interested in books and reading, then take some time to listen to this thought provoking discussion!

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Supernatural Summer: A Sampler of Your Fav Authors!

http://www.supernaturalsummer.com/

Supernatural Summer Tour from HarperTeen featuring Kim Harrison, Kelley Armstrong, Claudia Gray, Melissa Marr, and Aprilynne Pike via kwout

Check out the Supernatural Summer Book Tour website from Harper Teen!  You can preview these books by going to http://www.supernaturalsummer.com/ht-supernaturalsummer.pdf :

  • Fragile Eternity by Melissa Marr
  • Once Dead, Twice Shy by Kim Harrison
  • Wings by Aprilynne Pike
  • The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong
  • Stargazer by Amy Vincent
Categories: Book Musings, Book Spotlights, YA Lit | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

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