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Home. Free Online Textbooks, Flashcards, Practice, Real World Examples, Simulations. Classroom technology for online learning. World History International: E-Books. Over 4,000 science books now free online - Mankato Homeschooling. The National Academies Press announced this week that all PDF versions of its books will now be available free to the public.

Over 4,000 science books now free online - Mankato Homeschooling

This includes more than 4,000 books on subjects such as agriculture, engineering, space, nutrition, chemistry and more. In a press release, NAP said: As of today all PDF versions of books published by the National Academies Press will be downloadable to anyone free of charge. This includes a current catalog of more than 4,000 books plus future reports produced by the Press. The mission of the National Academies Press (NAP) -- publisher for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council -- is to disseminate the institutions' content as widely as possible while maintaining financial sustainability.

Topics include: A Quick Visual Guide on How to Create An eBook from Wikipedia Articles. February 18, 2014 It's been awhile now since Wikipedia has made it possible for users to create formatted eBooks from the content of its pages.

A Quick Visual Guide on How to Create An eBook from Wikipedia Articles

Wikipedia provides you with an integrated tool called "Book Creator" which upon enabling it allows you to create ebooks from wikipedia content. Free Books : Download & Streaming : Ebook and Texts Archive : Internet Archive. Additional collections of scanned books, articles, and other texts (usually organized by topic) are presented here.

Free Books : Download & Streaming : Ebook and Texts Archive : Internet Archive

The American Libraries collection includes material contributed from across the United States. Institutions range from the Library of Congress to many local public libraries. As a whole, this collection of material brings holdings that cover many facets of American life and scholarship into the public domain. Significant portions of this collection have been generously sponsored by Microsoft , Yahoo! , The Sloan Foundation , and others.

United States Patent and Trademark Office documents contributed by Think Computer Foundation. PDF to Flash page flip - flipping book software. California Learning Resource Network. Outline of U.S.

California Learning Resource Network

History (CA Textbook) The Outline of U.S. History is a celebratory textbook published by the U.S. 51 Sources Of Hundreds Of Thousands Of Free eBooks. eBooks should’ve been a game-changing technology.

51 Sources Of Hundreds Of Thousands Of Free eBooks

The idea was simple enough: no longer did you need to travel to the library to wade through rows and stacks and floors and buildings and card catalogs only to wag home only as much as you could carry. Or risk spending the afternoon locked in a room with the reference books you couldn’t check out. With eBooks, databases were now entirely searchable–and searchable through mobile devices from your pocket. Books were also just a click away (provided you had an internet connection). Nothing against libraries, but the argument makes sense: the more accessible books are, the more people should read. Nonfiction Literacy and Current Events. Net Texts. A Simple Guide for Teachers to Create eBooks on iPad using iBook Author. With the start of this new year Apple launched two major products namely iBook app and iBooks Author.

A Simple Guide for Teachers to Create eBooks on iPad using iBook Author

These two releases have caught the attention of media and Educational Technology and Mobile Learning was no exception. We posted two detailed articles about the potential of these new products in education. Today we are adding a follow up to those articles. Below are some of the best tutorials to get teachers and educators acquainted with the iBook Author. Just a reminder, iBook Author allows users to easily create ebooks. Share Book Recommendations, Join Book Clubs, Learn more about your Favorite Books and Share Books with Friends.

How to Create CK-12 Flexbooks. The Invisible Apps – from Beth on Edudemic. As a follow up to my post, , I thought a lot about how iBooks and the Camera may be two of the most powerful apps on the iPad, and yet the most under appreciated. In many ways, they are essentially “invisible apps.” Bookry. The Best 9 Free Websites That Offer Free eBooks for Teachers. Education nowadays is talking digital and probably by the year 2020 most of the schools in the US and Canada will have already embraced digital textbooks.

The Best 9 Free Websites That Offer Free eBooks for Teachers

Digital learning is gaining ground day after day and the sooner we embrace it the better. There are several ways teachers can benifit from this digital boom in education. One of them is digital reading. Free Bestsellers And Indie Books For Kindle. eBooks. Available on iPad, Galaxy Note 10.1, Windows7 and Web. Available on iPad, Galaxy Note 10.1, Windows7 and Web.

iBooks Author in Education. A Study in Thrift: How to Fill an iPad with Free E-books from Project Gutenberg. By Emily | October 19, 2012 | No comment yet While nearly every reading app comes with an easily accessible stash of free public domain books a user can read from within the app, I get my free e-books from Project Gutenberg and read them in iBooks.

A Study in Thrift: How to Fill an iPad with Free E-books from Project Gutenberg

If Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Study in Scarlet is essentially the same regardless of its source, then why does it matter? The Online Books Page. The Library of Congress - About the Library. HP BookPrep. Boundless - The Free Textbook Replacement. Login Lumen Menu This catalog contains educational content originally curated by Boundless. In collaboration with the Boundless team, Lumen Learning imported these OER courses to the Lumen Platform, to ensure they remain freely available to the education community after Boundless ceased operations. Lumen maintains the Boundless content in the same condition it was provided to us, and courses may contain some formatting and accessibility issues.Except where otherwise noted, all material in Boundless courses are licensed under a CC BY-SA license.For services and support to edit and use these courses in your LMS, please visit lumenlearning.com/contact.

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