Six Free Websites for Learning About Science (from Mashable.com)

Thanks to that excellent resource, Mashable.com, for this article: Six Free Websites for Learning and Teaching Science.

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Wake Up Early With WakerUpper

Log in to the website and give yourself a wake up call.

WakerUpper

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Free Ebook Tells How to Get a Summer Camp Job in the USA

Everyone looking for a summer camp job in the USA will benefit from a new free ebook: Summer Camp Jobs USA Lite.

Published by Zorba Press, the new free ebook is in the PDF format, an can be downloaded from the Internet Archive.

Summer Camp Jobs USA LITE
http://www.zorba.us/?page_id=874

This is the free LITE edition of Zorba's paperback and ebook: Summer Camp Jobs USA.
This free LITE edition contains the first 5 Chapters — 54 pages — of the full edition.

Summer Camp Jobs USA (the free LITE edition) is packed with detailed information and strategies about how to find the best jobs at American summer camps. The book explains:

• 1] Why Bother? … Why You Should Work at a USA Summer Camp
• 2] Know Thyself: How to Express The Real You on Paper, Pixels or Phone
• 3] Paradise: Your Ideal Camp and How to Find It
• 4] Job Hunting 101: How to Find the Jobs Using the Classic Methods
• 5] Job-Hunting Super-List: 20 Websites for Finding Summer Camp Jobs
  

For more information, including the Table of Contents of the Full edition, visit the book's web page at the Zorba Press website:

http://www.zorba.us/?page_id=874


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Zorba's Guide to Free Ebooks

There is no such thing as a free lunch; there is such a thing as a free ebook. About 2 million ebooks are available free, for you to download and read.

This extraordinary resource is Chapter 3 from my book 50 Benefits of Ebooks: A Thinking Person's Guide to the Digital Reading Revolution. That book is updated twice yearly, in March and September. This page of free ebooks will be updated every January and June.

Zorba's Guide to Free Ebooks
http://www.zorba.us/?page_id=818


Be careful before downloading a free ebook, or before downloading anything: be sure that the ebook comes from a trusted and malware-free source.


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Does Your Web Host Offer Unlimited Bandwith ?

How important is unlimited bandwidth when you buy web hosting? ... This feature is very important. I imagine that most website owners use far below their quotas. But you always wonder about a spike in traffic, and how much it could cost you if, suddenly, tens of thousands of readers flock to your blog or web site to read an article, or to view a video.

Many web hosting companies have put that fear to rest, by offering unlimited bandwidth. I have been recommending 1and1.com as a web host for many years; now that they are offering this feature, I can continue to recommend 1and1 wholeheartedly, without any reservations at all.

When buying web hosting space, some important features to consider are:

• Tech support and customer service
• Cost per month
• Uptime
• Bandwidth allotment (unlimited is best)
• Hosting Space allotment
• Backup
• Control Panel (ease of use)
• Domain Name Registration (should be ten dollars or less per year)
• Company (how long in business?)
• Contact Information (do they have a physical location and a phone number?)

Before you buy, read a lot, compare features, talk with colleagues and friends.


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Resources for Authors and Publishers at The Creative Penn

Information overload is one of the great curses and blessings of our Internet age. Before the Net, getting information was difficult, expensive, inconvenient — or all of the above. Now that we have too much information, the game is changed. The problem is to keep out the useless information, and to find the best sources for the subjects we want to explore.

Recently I exchanged interviews with Joanna Penn:

Joanna Penn interviews Michael Pastore

Michael Pastore interviews Joanna Penn.

Ms. Penn has a large following on Twitter, where she posts links to useful resources. In addition, she collects these resources — all about writing, publishing, ebooks, and independent publishing — and posts them to her blog, the Creative Penn.

Publishing: 82 brilliant links for writers, authors and publishers.

The resources here are informative and entertaining, and often contain good advice from experts in the fields.


Penn has written a number of books, including two books about writing and marketing. Her latest project is Author 2.0.



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Share The Love at Care2.com

Happy Valentine's Day. You can put a smile on the faces of your family and friends, by sending them an e-card from Care2.com.

Shown in the image is the card calleld "I Like You" by Camilla Eriksson. You can find it here:
http://www.care2.com/send/card/5937

The moving images, and the lively song made me laugh out loud.

There are dozens of more e-cards at the site. And every time you send one, you'll be contributing a little bit to a project that helps to save the environment.

Take a look at the Care2.com website, which connects you with socially-conscious causes worldwide. And Care2 also offers a very nice free email feature.

For more information, visit the Care2 home page: http://www.care2.com


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Best Websites and Web 2.0 Services

Here is a brief list of our favorite websites and Web 2.0 services. These are the websites that I visit often, and the services that I use and trust.

Everything we've listed is free, although some of these services let you pay a little to get more features.


Visit the EPW Page of Top Websites and Web 2.0 Services
Best Websites on Epublishers Wiki

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Health For Life — Websites About Health

Health is the true wealth.

According to E. Graham Howe, there are four great healing forces: Time, Sleep, Change, and Love.

Those things heal the mind; to maintain the body we need excercise, right eating, a sense of humor, and a deep connection with the natural world.

EPW Favorite Websites About Health


Follow the link above to our ever-growing collection of links to websites with valuable information about living a long and healthy life.

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