Joosten Student Resources Page

Latest update to this document: April 16 2003



Links to Excellent Web Sites Were e-books are available




netLibrary

This is a site created right here at our school, Northern Michigan University. It provides listing of e-books available to be checked out from Northern. It provides advances searching features, where students can search by Title, Author, Subject, Keywords, full text, publisher, publishing year and IMBN. After checking out and e-book form this site you can open it and read in the reading room, without having to save anything to a personal computer. Also this site holds a bookshelf for each member, where previously found e-books can be assessed at anytime. It a great site with many helpful features.

Diane Judd's Fun and Educational E-Books

This site was created by preservice teachers at Valdosta State University. This site was created to advance early childhood development and reading. It provides many educational e-books for young children. These books have been created by the students at Valosta university, using digital cameras. They took pictures for their own lives and used them to create children stories to teach a lesson. Stories such as Safety at School and We Learn Our Vowels.

Hopcott E-books

This is a site that provides hundreds of e-books and easy ways to search for them. It provides categorizes for Aborigines to Aviation and that's just the A collection. You can find an e-book about whatever your looking for at this site.

E-books

This site is a it different than other e-book search sites, it's is a non-commercial site that provides information about e-books. This site provides accurate information about research about e-books. Also a forum for discussion about e-book related subjects.

The Online Books Page

This site has been providing uses with free online books for the past 10 years. It provides over 19,000 books and function that always you search though all of these for exactly what you looking for. It also provides information about the government stance on e-books and copyright laws, also the free speak online movement.

TeleRead

This site also provides a number of interesting e-books. The books are easy to locate They are in categorizes sucks as for children and minorities, US news articles and the latest e-books.

The University of Virginia's e-book Library

This site is provided by the University of Virginia's Library. It's provides the ability to search for e-books alphabetically by author name. It highlights popular books such as holiday books and best Sellers.

Educational Program workshop

Rather than a site were e-books are available this site educates people about e-books. It provides information about electronic books, technology and how they work.

Desktop Author

This site provides a downloadable version of a desktop offer. This allows a person to write e-books and e-presentations. It also has other features that competitors don't the ability to create quizzes, tests, forms and surveys in just minutes.


Links

CS255 Computers in El Ed Home Page

Link to Northern Michigan University


Melissa Joosten: mjoosten@nmu.edu