Based on the Book

http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies/  

From the website:

“‘Based on the Book’ is a compilation of over 1,250 books, novels, short stories, and plays that have been made into motion pictures. Utilizing the Internet Movie Database as the authority, all movies in this collection have been released as feature-length films in the United States, in English, since 1980.”

Leap Year!

Here are a couple of sites with background information and activities for leap year.

http://www.factmonster.com/spot/leapyear2.html 

http://www.leapyearday.com/

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/time/leapyear/ 

Black History Month

Here’s a great site for Black History Month. http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/ This site has a photo gallery, videos, quotes, biographies, classroom ideas, & more!

File conversion

http://media-convert.com/  

The web site looks great! No need to download any program and it’s free to use. You can use this web site to convert most any file to a comparable file of the same media (spread sheet to spreadsheet, word processing to word processing, music to music, etc.). For example, maybe you or a student use a different word processing program at home and when you get to school you can’t open the file (maybe WordPerfect at home, Word at school). I know I will also use this at home for music files. A great resource to have available for free!  

Are you looking for a web site?

Is there something your class is learning about that would be enhanced or reinforced with a web resource? Is there something you would like to learn more about and you are looking for an on-line resource? Please let me know! Post your requests here and I will see what I can find or maybe another reader of this blog will have a recommendation.

Historical Images

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/listguid.html 

This is an amazing collection of historical photographs from the Library of Congress. From the site:

“Prints & Photographs Division staff have selected sets of images on frequently requested topics, focusing on images for which there are no known restrictions.”

Hello world!

Welcome! This is my first post as I venture into the world of blogging! I will be using this blog to post my weekly Web Site Wednesday updates along with other information about technology, information literacy or libraries.