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Posts Tagged ‘ Kindle 2 ’

One Little Control That Makes a Difference for Educators

January 2, 2011
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One Little Control That Makes a Difference for Educators

One of the most consistent questions over the years about Kindle management concerns how to disable the ability to make purchases directly from the device. For educators, this is almost a show-stopper with Kindle. This uber-consumer reading device, designed with book purchases in mind, makes it just too darned easy to buy a book,...
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Buying Your Kindles Using a Purchase Order

July 13, 2010
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Buying Your Kindles Using a Purchase Order

The first hint of the problem started popping up at the end of the school year in May. Kathy Burnette, a member of the Kindle Educators Group over at the Ning, summed up her problem in a post: ARGH! We are not allowed to purchase gift cards using our purchase order accounts and that...
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Kindle Phone Home: Getting 80 Kindles Ready for Kids, Part 2

July 5, 2010
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Kindle Phone Home: Getting 80 Kindles Ready for Kids, Part 2

Once Kathy’s helper-husband Steve had all the Kindles out of their boxes, numbered with stickies, and charging peacefully, the time had come for Kathy to swing into action. It was time to reconnect each Kindle with the Amazon software that would allow Kathy to manage content for each of the Kindles online. Unlike you...
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Getting 80 Kindles Ready for Kids

July 3, 2010
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Getting 80 Kindles Ready for Kids

I had the pleasure of spending a day with Kathy Parker last week to learn how she sets up all the Kindles the district purchased for Seneca Grade School’s entire eighth class for the coming school year. It is quite a process! I have noted in many previous posts that the Amazon Kindle is...
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Why Educators Should Mourn the Departure of the SD Chip Slot from the Kindle 2

May 20, 2009
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Why Educators Should Mourn the Departure of the SD Chip Slot from the Kindle 2

Can’t find the expansion slot for additional memory on your Kindle 2? That’s because there isn’t one. And, as I have indicated in earlier posts, that’s not a good deal for educators. This change seems to be part of the “closing” of the Kindle, where a sleek form factor trumps functionality. If the Kindle...
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Why Fewer Buttons On the Outside of the Kindle 2 is Bad News for Educators

May 15, 2009
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Why Fewer Buttons On the Outside of the Kindle 2 is Bad News for Educators

There is another way in which Amazon is “veering away from supporting educational uses.” The Kindle 2 actually makes it harder to manage the settings of the device. How? Most importantly, the Kindle 2 pushes the wifi “on/off” setting into a menu and removes the button from the exterior of the device. Stylish, yes....
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Why Kindle 2 Isn’t Good for Education

May 14, 2009
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Why Kindle 2 Isn’t Good for Education

OK, ket’s be fair. Amazon created the Kindle as a consumer device for reading books, novels primarily, with a little assistance on the side for newspapers, magazines, and blogs. As a business system, the device actualized the ebook value chain for the biggest etailer of books on the planet. It only makes sense. It...
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