Classroom Organizer - free app to organize your classroom library and book room

Classroom Organizer is a free web based and mobile app that allows you to organize and manage your classroom library and school book room.

The app allows you to Inventory print and eBooks, Import titles directly from your Booksource order, Add your existing books, Import your student roster, Enable students to check out and return books, Run assessment reports on student activity, Organize bookrooms and share eBooks with the Classroom Organizer School portal.

With the mobile app, available for Android and iOS, you can scan book title ISBNs into your library,  view your library, and manage your book locations.



This is a great resource for classrooms and smaller schools to manage their book collections.








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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - book and original movie available for free

Open Culture is a great resource for lots of things. They have incredible listings of free ebooks, audio books, and videos available, which is great for education.

They just announced that they have the original file adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein available for download. It's only 12 minutes and was  made in 1910. They also have the link to download the original Frankenstein book.

Check it out with your students.

Google Books now available offline

Google Books, Google's service that has thousands of books available, has added offline viewing capability to the desktop app when you use Chrome. This feature has been available or the Android and iPhone apps for a while.

This would be great for schools who want to use Google Books instead of buying paper books. Many of the classics are available here.

You must use the web app to access the books offline.

ReadPrint - Free online books for students, teachers, and readers

ReadPrint is a site that has thousands of free online books to read. You can search the entire collection, or search categories such as essays, fiction, non-fiction, plays, and more.

The site has many of the classics, inclduding "The Ugly Duckling", "Jane Eyre", "Pride and Prejudice", and "The Canterbury Tales."

This is a great resource for educators and students to save money by reading the books online for free.

All PDF books from National Academies Press are now FREE

The National Academies Press is the publishing arm of the National Academies and publishes reports from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council. There are over 200 books per year published a topics ranging from science to engineering and health and even Education.

There is currently over 4000 titles available in PDF format and they can now all be downloaded for free, either by chapter or by entire book.

There are some great reports and books on science, education, computers, earth science, health and medicine, security, environmental, and much more.

You do have to create a free account if you are going to do lots of downloading, but you can continue as a guest also.

This is a great resource for teachers and students looking for research and reports on different topics.

Here's a listing of all of the sub-categories in Education:

What I'm Reading

I've seen a few bloggers post what they're reading, so I thought I'd do the same, with some recommendations also.

I just finished "Subterranean", by James Rollins, again (it's a great read). It is a novel, but it can be used to talk about species evolving in different ways and under different environments.

I am currently reading "Blasphemy" by Douglas Preston. It is about what happens when a particle collider is turned on and some political infighting over it. So far, I'm enjoying it. It's a great book for us physics types. Preston writes with Lincoln Child and they have some great books together too.

Some other great books I loved reading:

Excavation, by James Rollins:

Hot Zone, by Richard Preston - this is a true story that took place in the late 1980's, based upon an outbreak of the Ebola virus in a monkey house located in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Reston, Virginia.