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As you may have seen if you receive our email newsletter, we’re kicking off our fall season of free professional development webinars with some exciting opportunities. Register today! And look for a “webinars” tab coming to the blog soon. Upcoming webinars from RB K-12: How Do You BookJam? Hosted by Rod Pavao Wednesday 9/8/2010 3:00-4:00PM [...]

First of all, don’t forget to enter our January contest to win a free audiobook! We’re currently hard at work on the 2010 Recorded Books K-12 catalog, and we love including stories and testimonials from our customers. If you use audiobooks in your classroom or school, send us a quick statement telling us what you [...]

Recorded Books and FETC are offering a $50 FETC VIP Attendee Coupon. Download the full coupon flyer here or by clicking the banner above. Registration ends this Friday, 12/18/2009, so register now! Just enter priority code FL5010 during registration checkout. And don’t forget to come visit Recorded Books at the event: BOOTH #251. From FETC: [...]

We’re excited to be sponsoring the latest edition of The Mailbox e-newsletter. Featured in the newsletter are activities and free audiobook excerpt downloads for three books from Recorded Books-published Dr. Janet Allen’s Plugged-in to Nonfiction Grades 4-5, Horrible Science: Angry Animals, Abraham Lincoln: The Life of America’s Sixteenth President, and On the Halfpipe with…Tony Hawk. [...]

Congratulations to Nikki Coates, our September contest winner! Nikki, you’ll receive one copy of Dear Mr. Henshaw on CD to share with your students. We asked respondents to share stories about who inspired them, and we got some great responses! Here are a few of our favorites, but we encourage you to read the rest [...]

Contest close. Congratulations to winner Nikki Coates! Stay tuned for next month’s contest.It’s September—and that means it’s back to school for students and teachers all over the country! Sure, summer is over, but we’ve got a giveaway to help you beat the blues! We’re giving away a copy of Newbery Medal Winner Dear Mr. Henshaw [...]

August is National Inventors Month, so we’re hoping to inspire some you inventors with this month’s giveaway: Brainstorm!: The Stories of Twenty American Kid Inventors by Tom Tucker. To win, leave a comment below with your favorite story of invention. It could be a cool story about how an invention came to be, an invention [...]

We got some great answers when our Recorded Books website survey asked teachers… How do you integrate audiobooks into your teaching strategy? “I use the stories to help the students practice important concepts like comprehension, summary, character plot and development. I also like to expose them to a good story that they wouldn’t read otherwise. [...]

Happy end of the school year! To help you celebrate, we are giving away a FREE Recorded Books Playaway audiobook and matching print book to the very first person to leave a comment for this post! Just leave us your email, and we’ll contact you. In the post, let us know what title you’d like [...]

We are now offering a series of FREE lesson plans on the blog, with downloadable audio available for a limited time. This is a great opportunity to see first-hand what other educators are doing with audiobooks, and to give audiobooks in the classroom a risk-free try yourself! This month’s free audio lesson guide is for [...]