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Bookboon is a free to use website that lets visitors download eBooks, in PDF format. The eBooks are categorized either as...

• textbooks;
• books for business; or
• books for travel.

Visitors can begin their searches by entering in a keyword and having the results displayed; they can also choose the category of books and optionally change the language of the website since it supports multiple languages.
Note: Search results can be filtered through subcategories in the left pane.
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Help spread the word about great resources available to students, academics and researchers from JISC Content http://bit.ly/rbzyHF.

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Lecturer of Earth Sciences, eLeader and PDA, Moodle Teacher Certified, Mark Rollins, has published an illustrated guide that those new to Moodle 2.0 will find useful.

Take a closer look at http://issuu.com/muppetmasteruk/docs/moodle2cover.

or the embedded version below...

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May's Senior Manager Newsletter is embedded below and/or available at http://issuu.com/jiscrscnw/docs/rscnwsmmay2011.

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May's eLearning Focus Newsletter is embedded below and/or available at http://issuu.com/jiscrscnw/docs/lpaprilmay2011.

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The Equality Act 2010 replaces the previous antidiscrimination laws with a single Act. It simplifies the law, removing inconsistencies and making it easier for people to understand and comply with it. It also strengthens the law in important ways to help tackle discrimination and inequality.

This quick start guide is intended to help employers understand how they can use new positive action provisions to improve diversity in their workforce when recruiting and promoting candidates.

The ...

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It doesn't matter if you're new to Twitter or a seasoned Tweeter, there's much more to it than many think.

Visit http://support.twitter.com/entries/166337-the-twitter-glossary to access the Official Twitter Glossary which holds literally every thing users can do on Twitter… from # to z.

The glossary contains "lingo" and vocabulary used frequently to talk about features and aspects of the Twitter service.

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The latest publication of our Newsletter is now available online.

Access this interactive version at http://vol10iss1.notlong.com.

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You're at home. You need to access a file that has important information, but as you attempt to find the file you realize that you've made a mistake. You saved the work on your desktop computer, but you only have your laptop with you. You have no way to access the file.

Enter Dropbox.

This program acts as a "magic pocket" which is always available and contains whatever you place in it. Put a file into your Dropbox and it can be on all of your computers and mobile devic...

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A Parents' Guide to facebook is designed to help parents/guardians/carers etc....

• understand what Facebook is and how to use it safely;

• become better informed; and
  

• to communicate with young Facebook users more effectively.
  

This is important because...

• if something goes wrong, we want children to come to us; and
  

• as the Internet becomes increasingly social and mobile, such guidance and support are ever more key to young people's well-being in social media and technolo...

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