When Alerice Linden dies at the beginning of her story, don't worry... She gets better. 6 Fantasy Novellas... 1 Epic Adventure! Tales of the Ravensdaughter Collection One features all 6 of the Ravensdaughter novellas! 1) The Beast of Basque - Sometimes you must die to reach your full potential.After being stabbed to death, Alerice awakens in the Evherealme and becomes the champion of the Raven Queen. 2) The Thief of Souls - Sometimes a thief is not the person you suspect.Alerice must discover who is stealing souls from the Realme, either Lolladoe and her clan of forest fauns or Vygar, the Wolf Prince. 3) The Wizard and the Wyld - Sometimes you just have to knock a few heads together.Alerice must make a Sapphire Wizard and a band of Wyld Mercenaries see eye-to-eye. 4) Rips In The Ether - Sometimes the dearest ally can unwillingly betray you.Alerice must save the Realme from being ripped apart. 5) Mistress of Her Own Game - Sometimes you need to take a stand despite the cost.Alerice challenges the King of Shadows so she can come into her own. 6) The Raven's Daughter - Sometimes the most merciful act is to simply say goodbye.Alerice does her best to free the man she loves. “Character-driven fantasy with a twisted plot hatched by Hitchcock on Phil Dick’s drugs” — Patrick LoBrutto, Doubleday Books “Radiant, laudable characters and a gripping storyline fuel this magical collection of novellas.” — Kirkus Reviews "Rousing epic fantasy novellas of a realms-crossing heroine." — Booklife The Ultimate Fantasy Novella Collection! Savor each adventure one-by-one or binge read. It's your choice!

Shiver E. Waters was the coldest biker-witch in Seattle. Then she went to prison and learned to be a little less nice. After that, somebody stole her cupcake recipe -- and then it was definitely on.No matter how many years you've been on the big highway, the road can still get bumpy sometimes. Shiver's a lucky bitch, though -- her coven, the Shotgun Brides Motorcycle Club, has got her back at all times. They break a few traffic laws, they cast a few spells and, in the end, Shiver warms up just enough to admit defeat when true love finally gets ahold of her.But she's still kinda mad about that cupcake recipe.

She was a teacher, not a spy. High school Spanish teacher Marianne Woolsey is happy with her life, until Earth Central Command forces her to sign up for a 26 year assignment light-years from Earth. In spite of herself, from the moment she meets her new employer’s infant daughter, she is all in, professionally and personally. Practiced and deadly, the Sural has ruled Tolar for centuries. When he requests a tutor from Earth for his daughter and heir, Central Command sends him someone much more intriguing than the passive spy he expected. But this human woman clearly has secrets of her own, buried deep in her past, and even an empath like the Sural cannot be entirely sure of her motives. On Tolar, espionage comes with a death sentence, and Marianne’s growing attraction for her employer might just get her killed. Can she trust this powerful ruler with her heart? The Marann is the award-winning first book in the Tales of Tolari Space science fiction series. If you like planetary adventure and heart-warming romance, you’ll love Christie Meierz’ tales of the reclusive Tolari.

This first installment in the Shotgun Brides series takes you on a ride down a fantastical freeway with a magical motorcycle club. The Shotgun Brides are a free-wheeling biker gang staffed entirely by bellydancing witches. These ladies ride from town to town, bringing justice and righting wrongs, using their powers of spellcraft and slinky dance moves. They also hand out tasty cupcakes now and then.

Technology-enhanced learning is a timely topic, the importance of which is recognized by educational researchers, practitioners, software designers, and policy makers. This volume presents and discusses current trends and issues in technology-enhanced learning from a European research and development perspective. This multifaceted and multidisciplinary topic is considered from four different viewpoints, each of which constitutes a separate section in the book. The sections include general as well as domain-specific principles of learning that have been found to play a significant role in technology-enhanced environments, ways to shape the environment to optimize learners’ interactions and learning, and specific technologies used by the environment to empower learners. An additional section discusses the work presented in the preceding sections from a computer science perspective and an implementation perspective. This book comes out of the work in Kaleidoscope: a European Network of Excellence in which over 1,000 people from more than 90 institutes across Europe participate. Kaleidoscope brings together researchers from diverse disciplines and cultures, through their collaboration and sharing of scientific outcomes, they are helping move the field of technology-enhanced learning forward.

New to the Routledge Advances in Learning Sciences series, this book highlights diverse approaches taken by researchers in the Learning Sciences to support teacher learning. It features international perspectives from world class researchers that exemplify new lenses on the work of teaching, encompassing new objects of learning, methods and tools; new ways of working with researchers and peers; and new efforts to work with the systems in which teachers are embedded. Together, the chapters in this volume reflect a new frontier of research on teacher learning that leverages diversity in the content, contexts, objects of inquiry, and tools for supporting shifts in instructional practice. Divided into three sections, chapters question: What new pedagogies and knowledge do teachers need to facilitate student learning in the 21st century? How do learning sciences’ tools, strategies, and experiences provide opportunities for them to learn these? What role do teachers play as co-designers of educational innovations? What unique affordances does co-design afford for teacher learning? What do teachers learn through engaging in co-design? How do teachers work and learn as part of interdisciplinary teams within educational systems? What might it look like to design for teacher learning in these broader organizational systems? Uniquely highlighting how cycles of reflection and co-design can serve as important mechanisms to support teacher learning, this invaluable book lays the groundwork for sustained teacher learning and instructional improvement.

This book explores the complexities of interacting with digital technologies in the everyday flow of practices in schools, museums, and the home. In particular, the authors pay attention to the material conditions of such practices via the exploration of media discourses on information and communication technologies in the classroom; the ongoing digitization of the school; the use of video chat for language learning; the instantiation of CrossActionSpaces in an urban science classrooms; the development of symbolic technologies such as the Carbon Footprint Calculator; the design of apps and virtual museums for learning science; the use of text message tools for collaborative learning in teacher education and the design, implementation, and evaluation of Augmented Reality apps in outdoor learning. The book is grounded in case studies presented by scholars at the workshop, “Changing Teaching and Learning Practices in Schools with Tablet-Mediated Collaborative Learning: Nordic, European and International Views” and the workshop “Emergent Practices and Material Conditions in Tablet-mediated Collaborative Learning and Teaching” both of which have been held at the Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning conference (CSCL). This volume brings together inspirational and high-quality chapters that raise a range of important ideas and showcase the importance of looking beyond technology-enhanced learning. Taken together, this volume unpacks a variety of everyday situations by engaging with what is really happening with digital technologies rather than what is expected to happen with them in educational settings. The take-away message is a call for research on learning, teaching, and digital technologies that enables engagement with the materiality of educational practices and, in particular, their constitutive relationships that configure the contemporary educational practices of the digital age.

This book features 35 of best papers from the 9th European Science Education Research Association Conference, ESERA 2011, held in Lyon, France, September 5th-9th 2011. The ESERA international conference featured some 1,200 participants from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe as well as North and South America offering insight into the field at the end of the first decade of the 21st century. This book presents studies that represent the current orientations of research in science education and includes studies in different educational traditions from around the world. It is organized into six parts around the three poles (content, students, teachers) and their interrelations of science education: after a general presentation of the volume (first part), the second part concerns SSI (Socio-Scientific Issues) dealing with new types of content, the third the teachers, the fourth the students, the fifth the relationships between teaching and learning, and the sixth the teaching resources and the curricula.