e-books and e-readers: criteria for choosing your e-reader
There are some common questions that educators and librarians ask about choosing an e-reader. Which comes first the e-reader or the variety of e-books that I have access to? What was the process that...
View ArticleTeaching with an e-book - part 1
As in schools the e-book and e-reader debate continues, and hovers on the "which device?" and "which format?" sticking points, it also strikes me that we need to think about what we will do in...
View ArticleReading more with e-readers?
It is probably a little early to consider the impact of e-readers on reading habits but already US sources are claiming a surge in reading with the new devices. A recent survey from Marketing and...
View ArticlePresentations that may interest
The first two are presentations that I gave yesterday. They are both produced in Prezi, a tool that if you haven't yet tried, you should. e-books: the state of play, barriers &...
View ArticleSteps towards e-text books
Japan will soon start trialling electronic textbooks in primary schools, enhancing the role of IT in the classroom for a generation of "digital natives" born in the wired age....
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So you're thinking about e-text books? 2011 may be too soon... in Australia...
Many teachers and librarians have told me their principal has asked them to investigate the possibility of using e-text books in 2011. Now, we've been trying to get our heads around at least a couple...
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e-books: What your school needs you to do (if you are a teacher or a TL)
The e-book/e-reader scenario is the perfect illustration of the hype cycle. We are not so far up from the "technology trigger". The Gartner Hype Cycle July 2009 put e-book readers into the 2-5 years...
View ArticleWhy you should grow some digital wings
This week I'm talking about e-books twice: on Wednesday to a local teacher librarians hub group, and then on Friday at the SLAV (School Librarians Association of Victoria) conference. Here is the...
View Articlee-readers boost enthusiasm for reading
A newspaper article today claims a school district library project to interest students in reading books by providing them with Kindles has been very successful. The librarians say that the devices...
View Article2010 Horizon report: Australia New Zealand edition: e-books
This volume examines emerging technologies for their potential impact on and use in teaching, learning, and creative enquiry within higher education in Australia and New Zealand over a five-year time...
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Are we about to be disillusioned with e-books?
What we have here is the Gartner Hype Cycle published in August 2010. It gives us a slightly different view of emerging technologies to the one I pointed to yesterday with the 2010 Horizon Report for...
View ArticleA collection of e-book links
The e-book e-reader cyberworld is really a fast changing one and I thought I'd pass on some information and tips that have come my way recently. First of all from Nick:A new online reader – the...
View Articlee-books: will Google ebooks make a difference to me?
Watchers are tipping that the recent plunge by Google into e-books is going to change the way the e-book market works. Well, for those of us In Australia, not much is changed as yet.Here is the first...
View ArticleE-books in education in 2011
One interesting report that has come my way is the Price Waterhouse Coopers report on ebooks, published at the end of 2010. While it is not specifically related to education, it does give a good...
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Teachers and librarians lead the way with e-books
New Research Report Just ReleasedeBooks: K-12 Educators’ Usage and Attitudes A new research report has just been released that surveys teachers and librarians to find out how they are using...
View ArticleCan we make things too easy to read?
Anecdotal evidence from friends and comments about their e-reading experiences include an impressions that they are able to read faster on their e-readers than they can with a "normal" made-from-paper...
View ArticleSeducing our students with e-readers
It seems that many students can be turned off reading by the physical characteristics of made-from-paper books, like size of the font - we expect them to "graduate" to smaller type fonts before they...
View ArticleEducators: taking advantage of e-reader capability
Using e-readers in the classroom should prompt some pedagogical changes. Reading a book with an e-reader or e-reading software/App is not just the digital equivalent of reading a made-from-paper book....
View Articlee-books in classrooms
I'm looking for a bit of feedback with this post. There have been a number of newspaper articles now about schools, particularly in the USA, taking delivery of e-book readers, in the main Kindles. But...
View ArticleWhat is an e-book?
Searching out e-text book initiatives in Australian educational institutions, particularly schools, has led me to the conclusion that in some cases we are not using the same terminology and that there...
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