Use Google Books to Search for Alternative Text for Your Students
Recently, I was preparing material for a professional development session for helping educators find alternative text for students. I came across Google Book Search.
Google is in the process of helping get the world's information online.
The search terms you enter are matched against the Google Print index and the matched results are found at the top of the results page.
Here is what some of the results look like:
posted by Christine Tomasino, efriendlylearning.com at
9:14 AM
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Don't forget Yahoo and the Open Content Alliance! Yahoo, along with partners like Harvard University, Microsoft, and the Smithsonian, are putting together a permanent archive of digital texts and multimedia resources.
California is also creating open source textbooks to combat the high costs of K-12 textbooks.
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Derek Baird, at November 23, 2005
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