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Free Online Photo Editor. Free Online Photo Editor. Pixelate effect online. How Collections by Destiny Has Fostered Collaboration in My School. When I first watched Follett’s webinar about Collections, I was so excited about the possibilities it seemed to offer.

How Collections by Destiny Has Fostered Collaboration in My School

I envisioned creating Collections that would bring relevant and interesting resources to my students and make their time at school more productive. However, school started a few days after the webinar, and I figured I didn’t have time to learn something new. Then at a district media specialist meeting, a colleague showed me a couple of Collections that she had made and told me how easy they are to create. Since that day, I have created many Collections, which have all been extremely useful for teachers and students! Custom Planner 2020 & 2021 - Create your own at personalplanner.com. Wakelet Alternatives and Similar Apps and Websites. AlternativeTo is a free service that helps you find better alternatives to the products you love and hate.

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The site is made by Ola and Markus in Sweden, with a lot of help from our friends and colleagues in Italy, Finland, USA, Colombia, Philippines, France and contributors from all over the world. That's right, all the lists of alternatives are crowd-sourced, and that's what makes the data powerful and relevant. Feel free to send us your questions and feedback on hello@alternativeto.net, in our discussion forums, in our Discord channel or tweet us at @AlternativeTo. The Pirate Name Generator. 90 Retailers That Offer Teacher Discounts. Via TeachThought Bookstore Discounts Barnes & Noble: B&N Educator Program: 20% off list price & up to 25% off during Educator Appreciation Days.

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See our Barnes & Noble Coupons page for other savings.Book Warehouse: Educators’ Book Club: 15% discount.Books-a-Million: 20% off for faculty (in-store only)Half Price Books: Teacher & Librarian Discount Card: 10% off. WordFit.com Daily Puzzles. Printable Puzzles by KrazyDad. Smitten With Books: How to Get ARC's. ARC's are a very big topic in the blogosphere and I have especially seen a lot of posts having to do with how new bloggers shouldn't create a blog just to get free books.

Smitten With Books: How to Get ARC's

I totally agree with them but it's also the blogger's preference and they can start their own blog for whatever reason (it doesn't matter if they want free books or just have a genuine love for books). Ok, so you're probably wondering if I am going to give you the whole lecture too, well I'm not. The Hub - Today’s Quick Picks nominees are filled with thrills and chills.

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Breaking by Danielle RollinsBloomsbury USA Children’sPublication Date: June 6, 2017ISBN: 9781619637405 Charlotte has never been a top student at her prestigious, expensive, academically rigorous boarding school. Her best friends Ariel and Devon, however, are true Weston Prep material – freakishly smart and incredibly talented at a multitude of things. Understandably, Charlotte is reeling after they both commit suicide within weeks of each other – they were pretty much her only real family. Then she discovers a clue… and realizes that Ariel has left her a trail of breadcrumbs right to the answer to all her questions. Library Juice Academy Courses. Download Library. FAQ regarding switch in platform for the Download Library. Maine InfoNet is pleased and excited to announce that Bibliotheca (formerly 3M) will host the Download Library’s eBook and Audiobook platform beginning March 1, 2017.

FAQ regarding switch in platform for the Download Library

What does this mean to you and to your library users? Switching from Overdrive to Bibliotheca’s cloudLibrary Platform will keep the vast majority of the same content at your library’s current cost, plus provide the following enhancements: · Ease of Use: the Bibliotheca cloudLibrary product is much easier to use than the Overdrive product, and this translates to a more satisfying user experience. · School Library Participation: School libraries will be able to participate and there will be no restrictions as to their membership. · Greater Opportunities to Share Collections: Bibliotheca offers a similar product to Overdrive Advantage, which they call a Private Cloud.

FAQ regarding switch in platform for the Download Library. Download Library. FAQ regarding switch in platform for the Download Library. More savage than Caravaggio: the woman who took revenge in oil. The dying man is Holofernes, an enemy of the Israelites in the Old Testament, and the young woman beheading him is Judith, his divinely appointed assassin.

More savage than Caravaggio: the woman who took revenge in oil

Yet at the same time he is also an Italian painter called Agostino Tassi, while the woman with the sword is Artemisia Gentileschi, who painted this. It is, effectively, a self-portrait. Two big, blood-drenched paintings of Judith and Holofernes by Gentileschi survive, one in the Capodimonte in Naples, the other in the Uffizi in Florence. They are almost identical except for small details – in Naples Judith’s dress is blue, in Florence yellow – as if this image was a nightmare she kept having, the final act to a tragedy endlessly replaying in her head.

“This is the ring you gave me and these are your promises!” Gentileschi was the greatest female artist of the baroque age and one of the most brilliant followers of the incendiary artist Caravaggio, whose terrifying painting of Judith and Holofernes influenced hers. She fought back.