How about this for cool!!!

You know you can download the Kindle software to your PC, iPhone, and Blackberry, right? Well, there are hundreds of free books that were transcribed by volunteers (that means they are probably not error free). However, the more people that read them, the better the rating for each book will be; therefore, allowing for us all to be a part of the tide that has shifted to focus on public domain. I think it is cool!! I am a total geek, though. I have downloaded over 300 books in the last 12 hours. What else do you do when you are so ill you can't sleep?

Check it out at http://www.amazon.com/ and look at Kindle books by most popular and you will quickly come across the titles marked $0.00. I love the look of that.

Other free book resources

CK-12 is another place where books are able to be self publishable and an open source educational book repository.

Curriki - Fooling With Words Website is another place where open source books are available for education.

Lulu is also a place where books that have been made by authors allowing for a free copy of the book in PDF.

Did you all know about Wikibooks?

Wikibooks is really cool. It has books available for free. These books can be downloaded as a PDF for free and then they can be placed on the Kindle for free reading material. Yeah!!! Free!!!! If you want a bound copy you can create a PDF that can be uploaded to Lulu.com and then purchased as a bound book. IF YOU DO THAT, make sure you are verifying the specs before you create the book. You may need to adjust the PDF document.

They also have Wikijunior for children's books. This is a section of free educational books for children birth to 12 years old.

Copyleft Images

These are sites that students and teachers can get images for educational use. Be sure you direct your students to identify the license so they get in the habit of online source licensing and attributing where appropriate.

Wikipedia Commons
National Biological Information Infrastructure
Creative Commons
Department of Defense
Morgue File
Pics4Learning
Photoshop For Video
Ease History
Ease History also??
US Government Photos
Gimp
Flikr
Free Foto
W P Clip Art

Copyleft Audio

This is a list of open source audio for educational purposes. I have used them and found positives and negatives for the purpose of my classes. Be sure that you are comfortable with any audio that you download or any site you direct your students toward. Some sites are file transfers that have been uploaded from the personal computer of public users and viruses can be delivered to your system. I will try to come back soon to give my account.

SoundzAbound
Magnatune
Wavplanet
Musopen
WikiCommons
Wavsounds
Moviewavs
Freeacidloops
Dailywav
Soundsnap
PacDv
Creative Commons
Music Alley
CC Mixter
Free Sound Project
Open Sound
Pen Machine Podcast
Internet Archive

Children's Rights

How many of these children's rights did you know about?