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Posts Tagged ‘ Kindle ’

The Graphing Calculator and the Kindle

July 29, 2010
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The Graphing Calculator and the Kindle

Few pieces of educational equipment have achieved the kind of rapid and widespread adoption in schools from middle school to college as the graphing calculator. Introduced by Casio in 1985, the device has been showing up on school supply lists for quite some time, and as a parent I have personally purchased several for...
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eReadUps Launched: Build Your Own Kindle Book

February 20, 2010
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eReadUps Launched: Build Your Own Kindle Book

For all the users of Kindlepedia over the past year, I am delighted to announce that, in partnership with Joshua Tallent and the “talented” folks at eBook Architects, we are launching a new Kindle content tool called eReadUps. Like Kindlepedia, eReadUps builds Kindle-formatted books based on articles from the largest open source provider of...
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The Nook and the Kindle

January 12, 2010
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The Nook and the Kindle

Wandering through my local Barnes and Noble over the weekend I ran into something unusual. A Nook. For months I have been drawn to the banners and brochures near the help desk, only to learn that the helpers didn’t know when the store might have an actual Nook on display. This was a pleasant...
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Kindle for PC – What’s in it for Educators?

November 12, 2009
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Kindle for PC – What’s in it for Educators?

Amazon released in beta this week its Kindle for PC application, and educators will welcome this development. Even though you have heard me rant a bit about the anti-education direction the company has taken in the development of the Kindle ereader (loss of SD card slot, loss of replaceable battery, loss of external Whispernet...
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Launching Kindle Educators

June 13, 2009
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Launching Kindle Educators

This week I created a “partner” site for EduKindle called Kindle Educators Group. The idea is to build a discussion around ideas and experiences related to the use and/or potential use of the Kindle ereader in the classroom and as a “learning appliance” (see my post on this topic here). This forum is built...
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eSchool News Leads with Story on Kindle DX

June 8, 2009
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eSchool News Leads with Story on Kindle DX

You know that people are paying attention when eSchool News puts a Kindle story on the front page! The article contains nothing new in terms of information about the DX and the schools that will be piloting it, but several quotes from those involved sum up the situation: The Educator: “Is this the watershed...
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Is Kindle the perfect learning appliance?

June 5, 2009
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The devices that we use to access content are getting smaller and smaller. One could make the case that the iPod Touch and the iPhone are in fact small pocket computers, and one wouldn’t be far from the truth. (The coming update to the iPhone operating system promises to allow, among other things, the...
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Read Obama Speech to the Muslim World on Your Kindle

June 4, 2009
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In keeping with a little tradition here at EduKindle, I have formatted a copy of President Barack Obama‘s speech in Cairo early this morning for your reading pleasure on the Kindle. Just click here to download the file to your computer. Then connect the Kindle via USB cord and drag the file into the...
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The Logic of the Kindle

April 17, 2009
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Someone said “Why would I want to carry another device just to read a book?” I guess they missed the fact that they were already carrying a device just to read a book, and that would be the book itself…
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More Tudors on Your Kindle

April 13, 2009
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More Tudors on Your Kindle

I don’t know if anyone else has gotten hooked on the Showtime series that portrays the life and times of King Henry the VIII of England, but after catching up with seasons One and Two on DVD, our household settles down on Sunday nights for a journey back to the 16th-century and the Tudors....
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