The Kindle in the Classroom

Kojo and the Kindle

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…

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 and…

A Thinker’s Blog for the Kindle

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:…

Study Grammar on Your Kindle

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

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…