Great show on WAMU with Kojo Nnamdi this Tuesday concerning “The Future of the Book.” Kojo talks with guests and listeners about how ebooks are growing in popularity and how far this trend may go. Of particular interest to EduKindle is the part of the show that featured Dean Hubbard from Northwest Missouri State University…
The Kindle in the Classroom
Nervous About Dropping Your Kindle?
by Will DeLamater
Watch the drop test from 30 inches: Schools often get nervous about the fragility of the equipment. Looks like Kindle could pass the test.
Kindle “Second Wave” Puts Device in Teachers’ Hands
by Will DeLamater
A school district in Utah has recognized the “simple market forces” that make the Kindle a viable alternative to print text today. A recent article in the Salt Lake Tribune details the purchase of 147 Kindles for teachers to work with so they can familiarize themselves and uncover ways to promote literacy using the device:…
Harvard Medical School Puts 20,000 Courses on Kindle
by Will DeLamater
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 and…
A Thinker’s Blog for the Kindle
by Will DeLamater
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 Sin:…
Kindle Survives Trip to the Pool, Can It Survive School?
by Will DeLamater
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, I…
Study Grammar on Your Kindle
by Will DeLamater
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 by…
Students Buying Books on School’s Kindle
by Will DeLamater
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 the…
Welcome to EduKindle
by Will DeLamater
This is the place to learn about how to turn your Kindle into a productivity tool for educators.