Welcome to the next Links and a Latte post! Grab a cup of coffee, tea or other favorite beverage (I’ve got my Hazlenut coffee today), and enjoy this quick round-up of interesting links. This week is a multimedia week with a couple of bonus links.
- The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is a short film nominated for a best animated short Oscar that is a love story to books, reading, and the power of story. It’s visually beautiful, poignant, and moving. It’s a great way to end the week! Watch it below or watch it on Vimeo.
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore from Moonbot Studios on Vimeo.
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- Numberlys and The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore for iOS: The company that created the above film is also building iPad apps for their stories. “In interviews elsewhere, the brains behind Moonbot have said that they’re not really trying to do movies or books or games—rather, they’re creating apps that draw upon elements from all three categories.” That’s a potential critical shift in storytelling that is worth keeping an eye on. [MacWorld]
- New York Public Library Labs projects: At the Edgy Librarian conference on Wednesday, we learned about all the neat ways NYPL Labs are bringing their local collections to the public in unique and new ways, online. At the bottom of the page, you will find links to their current projects, including a project with maps, an online exhibit about radioactive scientists, and a project around menus. Sharon has more on her blog from this session and other parts of the conference.
- Top 100 Tools for Learning in 2011 presentation: This is an annual presentation put together about online tools and where they’ve ranked over the five years of this presentation. It’s quite fascinating to see how some of these tools have evolved and become popular. How many of them do you use or know about? I know and use many of the ones mentioned, but there’s also several new ones (to me) I want to check out, including Storybird, lino, Udutu, Composica, and Storify. More information about this list can be found on the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies website.
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011View more presentations from Jane Hart
That’s it for this Links and a Latte post! What are you reading online? Share it in the comments.
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Heather Braum is the Technology Librarian at NEKLS. She can be reached by phone, by email (hbraum (at) nekls.org), or through several online chat services (look Heather up by her email address). Visit the 
