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John Evans

Amazon Unveils Kindle Textbook Creator -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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    "Amazon has launched a new segment of Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), KDP EDU, targeted at educators and authors of textbooks and other educational content. Publicly available as a beta, Kindle Textbook Creator is designed to allow authors to use PDFs "easily prepare, publish and promote e-textbooks and other educational content for students to access on a broad range of devices," according to a news release. Once created, the resources can be uploaded to KDP for use by students anywhere in the world on Kindle Fire tablets, iOS and Android devices, Macs or PCs."
John Evans

How The Amazon Kindle Fire Fits Into Education - Edudemic - 7 views

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    "How The Amazon Kindle Fire Fits Into Education"
John Evans

INFOGRAPHIC: The Health Hazards Of Tablet Use - 4 views

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    "I've never really thought about this until now, but if you use a tablet extensively, you have to watch how you're seated when you're using it. Just like how you sit in front of a normal computer matters to your back and neck posture, the same rules equally apply to when you're using your iPad, Android tablet or Kindle Fire."
John Evans

Speech Therapy App for Apraxia "Words" - 0 views

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    "The National Association for Child Development and Blue Whale Apps have announced the release of their breakthrough app aimed at assisting children and adults with speech and articulation. The application, "Speech Therapy for Apraxia-Words," which is part of their NACD Home Speech Therapist line, is now available on the App Store, Google Play, Amazon App Store, and Barnes & Noble App Store for the iPad, Kindle Fire, Nook, and Android Tablets."
John Evans

Personal Technology: For iPad and Mobile Devices, a 'Port' Out Of the Norm - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    "Now, there's a special, modified, pocket flash drive that works as usual with PCs and Macs, but can transfer and stream files to popular mobile devices without standard USB ports, such as Apple's iPad and iPhone, Amazon's Kindle Fire and many other Android devices."
Phil Taylor

Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think | Magazine - 2 views

  • It is a third gadget, the long-awaited Amazon tablet called the Kindle Fire, that represents his company’s most ambitious leap into the hearts, minds, and wallets of millions of consumers.
  • the Fire is an emblem of a post-web world, in which our devices are simply a means for us to directly connect with the goodies in someone’s data center.
  • Amazon, on the other hand, is a content-focused company—almost half of its revenue comes from sales of media like books, music, TV shows
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  • This keeps iPads tethered to the paradigm of local storage, putting a premium on machines with more memory (which cost hundreds of dollars more). Amazon, by contrast, emphasizes streaming.
John Evans

Hot This Season: Getting In Touch With A Tablet : NPR - 0 views

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    "Tablet computers are on a lot of people's wish lists this year. A recent Nielsen survey found the Apple iPad is the most wanted gift for kids ages 6 to 12. Some have even taken their appeals to YouTube. But if an iPad isn't in the budget, there are some 30 other tablets out there to choose from."
Phil Taylor

Top 5 Ed Tech Predictions for 2012| The Committed Sardine - 4 views

  • gain, there is a confluence of factors that will make BYOD the 1:1 model of choice for 2012 (a model, by the way, that will get devices onto a lot more desks and into a lot more student hands in the classroom this year). The emergence of inexpensive devices like the Kindle Fire, despite its lack of manageability, means that tabets will become increasingly commonplace for for students, making instant access to the Internet and a variety of content easily achieved. AMD is promising inexpensive alternatives to Intel’s ultrabooks and prices continue to fall on remarkably usable laptops.
Phil Taylor

New technologies enter our lives and society in four stages. - Slate Magazine - 4 views

  • smartphones just haven’t been around as long as TV; we haven’t yet established norms, or language, for what's socially acceptable and what's off limits.
  • struggling to make sense of a technology he didn't completely understand and the affect
  • smartphones move from Stage 2 to Stage 3. What is the indicator for this grand cultural shift? Dilbert
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  • This holiday season, Stage 3 technologies lined big-box stores and the pages of online retailers. This year, it was the iPad 2 and the Kindle Fire.
  • When a technology becomes mundane, it gets absorbed into the fabric of our lives and the history of our culture.
  • living in fear that texting and the Internet were stealing his girls, about 12 and 14, from him and his wife.
Alan Davison

Mobile Magazine $129 7 inch IPad alternative - 0 views

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    You thought the $199 Kindle Fire was a good deal? You thought OLPC was doing the right thing with cheap laptops? Archos is going even further with the announcement of the Child Pad, a seven-inch kid-friendly tablet that runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich right out of the box.
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