Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms, 3rd Edition. Will Richardson, $39.50

Technology impacts every facet of students' lives and plays a significant role in how students receive and process information. The third edition of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms shows educators at all levels and disciplines how to tap into the potential of digital tools for creating relevant, interactive learning experiences in the classroom.

Explore the wide world of new, easy-to-use Web publishing and information-gathering tools!

Children and the Internet: Great Expectations, Challenging Realities. Sonia Livingstone, $29.95

This major new book by a leading researcher deliberately avoids a techno-celebratory approach and, instead, interprets children's everyday practices of internet use in relation to the complex and changing historical and cultural conditions of childhood in late modernity. Uniquely, Children and the Internet reveals the complex dynamic between online opportunities and online risks, exploring this in relation to much debated issues such as:

• Digital in/exclusion
• Learning and literacy
• Peer networking and privacy
•  Civic participation
• Risk and harm

Drawing on current theories of identity, development, education and participation, this book includes a refreshingly critical account of the challenging realities undermining the great expectations held out for the internet. It concludes with a forward-looking framework for policy and regulation designed to advance children's rights to expression, connection and play online as well as offline.

Creating a Digital-Rich Classroom: Teaching & Learning in a Web 2.0 World. Meg Ormiston, $21.95

Instead of asking students to power down during class, power up your lesson plans with digital tools! Design and deliver lessons in which technology plays an integral role. Engage students in solving real-world problems while staying true to standards-aligned curricula. This book provides a research base and practical strategies for using web 2.0 tools to create engaging lessons that transform and enrich content.

Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social Aggression, Threats, and Distress. Nancy Willard, $44.95

This valuable resource provides school counselors, administrators, and teachers with cutting-edge information on how to prevent and respond to cyberbullying and cyberthreats. It addresses real-life situations that often occur as students embrace the Internet and other digital technologies. The book provides detailed guidelines for managing in-school use of the Internet and personal digital devices, including cell phones. Appendices contain reproducible forms for assessment, planning, and intervention, as well as detailed student and parent guides.

Cyber-Bullying: Issues and Solutions for the School, the Classroom and the Home. Shaheen Shariff, $40.95

Cyber-bullying is expanding with the use of modern technology — home computers and personal mobile phones — and provides youth with ‘an arsenal of weapons for social cruelty’. Addressing the policy vacuum relating to the boundaries of on-line supervision through informed guidelines for school administrators, teachers, parents and policy-makers, this book will help all stakeholders navigate the emerging challenges relating to student freedom of expression, privacy, safety and discipline in cyber-space.

Engaging the Eye Generation: Visual Literacy Strategies for the K-5 Classroom. Johanna Riddle, $24.95

Literacy in the twenty-first century means more than reading and writing — are you ready to discover how to update your curriculum to include both digital and print-based media, imagery, online applications, and audio and video, as well as traditional texts?

This timely book suggests curriculum enhancements ranging from low-tech to high-tech, and explains how teachers, even those with limited technology skills, can effectively guide students to proficiency. Each chapter — filled with meaningful and motivating activities — thoughtfully explains how to elevate traditional learning and add new layers to students` reading comprehension, critical thinking, and communication skills.

50 Graphic Organizers for the Interactive Whiteboard, Grades 2-5. Jennifer Jacobson & Dottie Raymer, $28.99

Whiteboard-ready graphic organizers for reading, writing, math and more — to make learning engaging and interactive.

Imagination and Play in the Electronic Age. Dorothy G. Singer, Jerome L. Singer, $35.50

Television, video games, and computers are easily accessible to twenty-first-century children, but what impact do they have on creativity and imagination? In this book, two wise and long-admired observers of children's make-believe look at the cognitive and moral potential, and concern, created by electronic media.

As Dorothy and Jerome Singer show, violent images in games and TV are as toxic as many observers have feared by stimulating destructive ideas and troubling aggression. But should all electronic media be banned from children's lives? Calmly and authoritatively, the Singers argue that in fact some screen time can enrich children's creativity and play, and can even promote school readiness. With guidance from parents and teachers, empathy, creativity, and imagination can expand and intensify in the electronic age.

i-SAFE Internet Safety Activities: Reproducible Projects for Teachers and Parents, Grades K-8. i-SAFE, $35.95

Most school-age children use the Internet every day. However, many possess naive attitudes about their online safety and can inadvertently engage in a range of high-risk behaviors. Developed by i-SAFE™, the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to Internet safety education, this important resource offers a series of fun lessons and teachers' guides to help students in grades K-8 learn how to stay safe online.

Filled with activities, this easy-to-use guide helps elementary and middle school students develop their Internet skills while keeping safe.

Literacy Smarts. Jennifer Harper & Brenda Stein Dzaldov, $24.95

Simple classroom strategies for using interactive whiteboards to engage students.

PowerPoint for Teachers: Dynamic Presentations and Interactive Classroom Projects (Grades K-12). Ellen Finkelstein & Pavel Samsonov, $27.95

PowerPoint for Teachers is written for teachers who want to use PowerPoint in the classroom to enhance presentations, teach students how to use the application, and create interactive educational projects.

No matter what your level of expertise, PowerPoint for Teachers gives the step-by-step information needed to introduce PowerPoint into the classroom and offers a great selection of creative projects for students. In addition, this handy resource includes sample customizable presentations and interactive games and activities that are available for free from the companion website.

Reading & Writing Lessons for the Smart Board, Grades 4-6. Scholastic, $25.99

Motivating, interactive lessons that teach key reading and writing skills, with ready-to-use interactive whiteboard activities on CD-ROM. Also available:

Reading & Writing Lessons for the Smart Board, Grades K-1. Scholastic, $25.99

Reading & Writing Lessons for the Smart Board, Grades 2-3. Scholastic, $25.99

The Space Place — We Have Lift Off! Catalyst Video Ltd., $65.95 (social skills DVD games)

The Space Place is designed to help young children have a better understanding of emotions and social interaction. The series features a space museum full of model space vehicles and rockets with friendly faces.  When George, the caretaker, locks up at night, all the models come to life and the fun begins!

Twelve episodes, each focusing on one emotion, are the central part of this DVD. Also included are interactive games and activities, a set of playing cards featuring emotions and a bonus CD with a special 3D game.

Teaching by Design: Using Your Computer to Create Materials for Students with Learning Differences. Kimberly Voss, $43.95

Teaching by Design shows readers how to use the computer to design meaningful educational materials for children and adults with special needs. A synthesis of computer graphics, education, and crafting, this book represents the author’s considerable expertise in customizing educational materials for her daughter with multiple disabilities as well as teaching other parents and teachers to create them too. Full of instructions for designing and adapting materials and strategies for using them, including a time-saving CD-ROM of templates, Teaching by Design is useful to parents and teachers of students of all ages with a wide range of disabilities. Design and customize lotto boards, interactive spelling cards, game pieces, playing cards, matching games, menus, fill-in-the-blank decals, handwriting transparencies, and more, to teach visual perception, math, language, communication, reading, handwriting, and self-help skills.

Teaching Generation Text: Using Cell Phones to Enhance Learning, Grades 5 – 12. Lisa Nielsen & Willyn Webb, $27.95

TEACHING GENERATION TEXT shows how teachers can turn cell phones into an educational opportunity instead of an annoying distraction. With a host of innovative ideas, activities, lessons, and strategies, Nielsen and Webb offer a unique way to use students' preferred method of communication in the classroom. Cell phones can remind students to study, serve as a way to take notes, provide instant, on-demand answers and research, be a great vehicle for home-school connection, and record and capture oral reports or responses to polls and quizzes, all of which can be used to enhance lesson plans and increase motivation.

Filled with research-based ideas and strategies for using a cell phone to enhance learning, this innovative new book is filled with new ideas for engaging learners in fun, free, and easy ways using nothing more than a basic, text-enabled cell phone.

Teaching with Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts & More. Kathleen Fitzgibbon, $13.99 Grades 3 and Up

Dozens of easy ideas for using technology to get kids excited about learning.

They Snooze You Lose: the Educator’s Guide to Successful Presentations. Lynell Burmark, $39.95

In today's increasingly visual world, the art of giving presentations is a much-needed talent. They Snooze, You Lose provides a comprehensive guide made especially for teachers and administrators who want to become presentation "stars" in their classrooms, at board meetings, or any time they are in front of an audience. New and seasoned educators alike will benefit.

Contains a bonus DVD with premade slides, a study guide, and reproducible images.

The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education. Curtis Bonk, $27.95

Web-based technology has opened up education around the world to the point where anyone can learn anything from anyone else at any time. To help educators and others understand what's possible, Curt Bonk employs his groundbreaking "WE-ALL-LEARN" model to outline ten key technology and learning trends, demonstrating how technology has transformed educational opportunities for learners of every age in every corner of the globe. The book is filled with inspiring stories of ordinary learners as well as interviews with technology and education leaders that reveal the power of this new way of learning.

Captures the global nature of open education from those who are creating and using new learning technologies

Writing Lessons for the Interactive Whiteboard, Grades 2-4. Lola Schaefer, $22.99

20 whiteboard-ready writing samples and mini-lessons that show you how to teach the elements of strong writing. Includes a CD-ROM with 20 ready-to-use writing samples.