Make sure you do the GoogleDocs Tech Tip first, before you do any other tips this semester.
At the GoogleBooks website, you can find hundreds of thousands of books online, including many "Full View" books. When a book is listed as "Free Google eBooks" that means you can read the entire book online, or you can download a copy of the book in PDF to read offline on your computer, or to print out. Most of the free books are books in the public domain, meaning that they were published in the early 20th-century or previously - so you will not find new books this way, but you can find lots of wonderful old books, all for free. I have built up a library of over a thousand books from the Renaissance and early modern period (here's a 17th-century Aesop, for example) that I use in my academic research. These are books that we do not have in the OU Library, and which are often not found in any American library at all - but they are freely available at GoogleBooks.
For this assignment, you will find a "Free Google eBook" book that is of interest to you, and send me a link to the book via email.
STEP ONE: Search for books. Go to the GoogleBooks website and search for something that interests you. You will get search results that include both books for purchase AND free books. To limit your search results to free books, make sure you click on the free books option in the left-hand menu that you will find under the "Any Books" option:
For example, these are the top search results for free books with the simple search term: Cherokee.
STEP TWO: View a book. After you have found a book that interests you, click on the book cover (or the title link), and page through the book. If the book looks good, then click on the link in the left-hand corner that says "About This Book." This will take you to the main page for the book. Copy the webpage address for this page and send it to me in an email. Please use this subject line: TechTip Free GoogleBook.
When you have sent in the email, you can enter this tip on your GoogleDocs Checklist and then do the Gradebook Declaration for Extra Credit. Here is the text of the Gradebook Declaration you will complete:
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PLEASE READ CAREFULLY:
I have completed the Technology Tip assignment and sent the instructor an email as required.
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