I greatly appreciated the PDF tutorial and discussion on planet PDF regarding the creation and storage of PDFs, just because it was interesting to think about major corporations or the government losing very important information just because of improper storage! Plus it was just weird to think about long term storage of internet documents. Very relevant to our future...but not too relevant to using this in the classroom...so onwards...
In the classroom being able to access online books and PDFs would be helpful anytime you needed to reference a title (but perhaps didn't need the entire book or have time to run to the library) and it would be great for accessing such info during class discussions, when you needed the info on the spot. Or perhaps you just wanted to print a paragraph out of a story to use for a writing topic...you could just click and print. Very effecient.
I also think this website would be helpful for professional development and teacher education...
The VILB website is a huge resource. The possibilities for classroom application are endless. The aspect of this resource I most appreciated was access to real research. It seems like many of the sites we regularly access are not giving us real research as opposed to newspaper articles, opinions, et. al. The VLIB resource provides so much factual information. For example, if my students were doing country or state reports, I could use the VLIB to find the best factual information sites (such as census reports and government information) and give the list to my students. That way my students are using factual information rather than just googling "Oregon population" and using the first thing they find. This resource is invaluable, because as we all know, not everything on the internet is true (no!?! really??!!). The VLIB is not as user friendly as some sites, but with plenty of exploration I believe it will be a very, very helpful resource for any number of classroom projects.
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