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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Video Guide to Creating Kindlepedia Articles for Your Kindle

June 20, 2009
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Pierre Gorissen has produced a nifty video on how to use the Kindlepedia tool from EduKindle to create reference articles for you Kindle or any other ereader that supports the Mobipocket format. In addition, Pierre has written a little script that allows you to make a bookmarklet in your browser (works fine in my...
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Kindle DX Page Turning for Lefties

June 19, 2009
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Kindle DX Page Turning for Lefties

Many have noted the “hair trigger” pivot function on the new Kindle DX that switches from portrait to landscape mode when you change the orientation of the device.  It’s true. When you handle the device, the content on the screen jumps around like crazy, like a cup of coffee in a car off road. That’s...
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Launching Kindle Educators

June 13, 2009
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Launching Kindle Educators

This week I created a “partner” site for EduKindle called Kindle Educators Group. The idea is to build a discussion around ideas and experiences related to the use and/or potential use of the Kindle ereader in the classroom and as a “learning appliance” (see my post on this topic here). This forum is built...
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eSchool News Leads with Story on Kindle DX

June 8, 2009
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eSchool News Leads with Story on Kindle DX

You know that people are paying attention when eSchool News puts a Kindle story on the front page! The article contains nothing new in terms of information about the DX and the schools that will be piloting it, but several quotes from those involved sum up the situation: The Educator: “Is this the watershed...
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Kindle Cleanup Checklist

June 6, 2009
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Kindle Cleanup Checklist

It is a fine, bright Saturday morning and I think that today I will clean up my Kindle. What I mean is, clean up all the content that has been chewing up space in the onboard memory. I knew it was time when I recently received the message that I could read my book...
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Is Kindle the perfect learning appliance?

June 5, 2009
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The devices that we use to access content are getting smaller and smaller. One could make the case that the iPod Touch and the iPhone are in fact small pocket computers, and one wouldn’t be far from the truth. (The coming update to the iPhone operating system promises to allow, among other things, the...
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Read Obama Speech to the Muslim World on Your Kindle

June 4, 2009
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In keeping with a little tradition here at EduKindle, I have formatted a copy of President Barack Obama‘s speech in Cairo early this morning for your reading pleasure on the Kindle. Just click here to download the file to your computer. Then connect the Kindle via USB cord and drag the file into the...
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