I have been loading more periodical content onto the Kindle lately, with The Wall Street Journal, at ten bucks a month, being the best of a bunch of very good deals. Currently I have Newsweek and U. S. News and World Report downloading wirelessly for a couple of bucks a month each, ditto Slate. But…
Grabbing a Screen Shot on the Kindle
by Will DeLamater
I have been reading Disrupting Class on the Kindle and note that Christenson et al use a number of charts and graphs in the book. (Is this why the book costs twice the usual price for a Kindle-enabled book?) The resolution of the skinny-lined figures I’ve run across so far begged me to capture them…
Kindle Classroom Excitement
by Will DeLamater
Joe Wikert has a great post about the reaction of a student to the use of a Kindle in the classroom. We would like to hear stories about educational uses of the Kindle here as well! Lee Ann has started using her Kindle with students in her high school classroom and will be reporting her…
Wapedia and the Kindle
by Will DeLamater
When I first got my Kindle I was gaga about the free wireless connection. I figured that it would allow me to look stuff up, check email, post to this blog, and do all kinds of cool stuff. Something that I learned was how many dedicated “mobile” services now exist to do this kind of…
Does Research Support Kindle Use to Improve Student Reading Scores?
by Will DeLamater
Much research highlighted in the past few years indicates the importance of time spent reading as the key factor in reading improvement for students. One path the debate has taken concerns the amount of reading that kids do on the web. The New York Times addressed this factor in a recent article. However, as Lee…
Kindle Font Size and Student Reading
by Will DeLamater
The ability to read a book, a newspaper, whatever, at a congenial font size is part of what makes the Kindle such a pleasure to use. The demographics of older readers with aging eyes like my own make this a strong incentive to get involved with electronic (and configurable) text. But what about students? Research…
Font Size Chart for Kindle
by Will DeLamater
Everyone knows a couple of things about font size on the Kindle. 1) You can change it to suit your fancy and 2) the Kindle has six font sizes to choose from, more than the Sony reader. You may also know, if you follow this blog, that my persoanl favorite font size for reading is…
Page Number Versus Position on Kindle
by Will DeLamater
August 22, 2016 – Update on Page Flip. Amazon recently updated its reader software to solve one of the longest standing problems with e-reading. Formerly, it was difficult if not impossible to jump around in a book and land back at the point you began, rendering non-fiction books with lots of graphs, images, and references…
If Adults Read More on Kindle, Will Students?
by Will DeLamater
It is a commonplace now in tweets and posts about the experience of owning a Kindle that users find themselves reading more on the Kindle than they did before. That is certainly my story. I browse the Wall Street Journal every morning now, and currently have two novels going. The time I spend reading has…
Can Other Kindle Terms from Amazon Be True?
by Will DeLamater
After fretting a bit about the limitations that the Kindle License and Terms of Use may place on educational applications, I found some other spots in the document that don’t ring true. Take the section on “Your Conduct”: Your Conduct. You agree you will use the wireless connectivity provided by Amazon only in connection with…