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The Kindle in the Classroom

Harvard Medical School Puts 20,000 Courses on Kindle

November 1, 2008
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Harvard Medical School Puts 20,000 Courses on Kindle

John D. Halamka, MD, Chief Information Officer and Dean for Technology at Harvard Medical School, reported on his blog last week that HMS has “recently implemented Kindle support for all our 20,000 educational resources at HMS.”  It’s more than cool or innovative: with an annual budget of $50,000 for printing course materials, Dr. Halamka...
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A Thinker’s Blog for the Kindle

October 21, 2008
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After canceling out of the blogs I’ve been reviewing before the “free trial” ended, I signed up for another batch.  One I find to be very interesting, Stanley Fish’s blog Think Again from the New York Times.  It looks like Fish, a professor at Florida International University in Miami, and whose book Surprised by...
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Kindle Survives Trip to the Pool, Can It Survive School?

July 7, 2008
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Great piece on NPR with Rob Pegoraro from the Washinton Post, who takes the Kindle to the pool and compares the Kindle’s durability to a cell phone. Those definitely go to the pool, and sometimes, in. He doubts the Kindle would survive immersion, and so do I. But with the drop test in mind,...
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Study Grammar on Your Kindle

June 22, 2008
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Jan at The Kindle Reader has a great review on a book that educators might want to put on the Kindle right away, or maybe even share with students: Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing. You can get it right now from Amazon. (Apparently the Kindle version posted at Amazon early...
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Students Buying Books on School’s Kindle

June 17, 2008
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Kathy Schrock has a great solution for the “credit card enabled” aspect of the Kindle: …since any user of the Kindle can purchase a new title from the Kindle store from the Kindle itself, we did not know how we were going to control students from purchasing books on a whim. We are solving...
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Welcome to EduKindle

April 25, 2008
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This is the place to learn about how to turn your Kindle into a productivity tool for educators.
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