When I saw the news about the lawsuit filed at Arizona State University concerning Kindle accessibility issues, I think I had a quick negative reaction to the upshot of the suit, that providing Kindles to sighted students creates a disadvantage for blind students. A journalism major at ASU, a plaintiff in the suit, sums up…
What Will Become of the Kindle DX?
by Will DeLamater
Now that I have been using my Kindle DX for a couple of weeks, I have some observations. First, all of the menu-driven controls that I criticized a little bit in assessing the changes from kindle 1 to Kindle 2 are not as problematic as I thought. Switching the wifi on and off is pretty…
Video Guide to Creating Kindlepedia Articles for Your Kindle
by Will DeLamater
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 Firefox)…
Kindle DX Page Turning for Lefties
by Will DeLamater
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 how…
Launching Kindle Educators
by Will DeLamater
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 on…
eSchool News Leads with Story on Kindle DX
by Will DeLamater
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 device…
Kindle Cleanup Checklist
by Will DeLamater
Update: Want to clean up your Kindle Fire? Click HERE. 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…
Is Kindle the perfect learning appliance?
by Will DeLamater
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 ability…
Read Obama Speech to the Muslim World on Your Kindle
by Will DeLamater
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 “documents”…
Read About Judge Sonia Sotomayor on Your Kindle
by Will DeLamater
With the nomination in place, the debate is about to begin. Read the “up-to-the-minute” backgrounder on President Obama’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, by downloading the Wikipedia article here.