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Chris Carter

Readlists - 149 views

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ebooks reading epub curation eBook kindle readability resources tools

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  • anonymous on 22 May 12
     
    Create an ebook from a group of webpages. Send to Kindle, iPad/iPod, or download as an epub (for Nooks and other readers).
  • Damianne President on 25 Sep 12
     
    This site lets you bundle web pages for mobile devices
  • Chris Carter on 04 Jun 14
     
    Take any bunch of web pages and turn them into an e-book. gone are the days when you photocopy readers. Now, e-publish! Weightless, instant, and free!
Richard Stephenson

Evolve/Elsevier - 30 views

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evolve e-books teacher resources

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  • Richard Stephenson on 01 Nov 13
     
    E-Books, instructor and student resources
psmiley

Learnist | Share what you know - 2 views

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learnist education tools sharing web2.0 bookmarking share knowledge

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  • Steve Trumble on 13 Feb 13
     
    Everybody knows enough about some topic - be it English, science, yoga or bourbon - to teach other people about it. And every topic is covered by content scattered around the Web. The idea behind a new site called Learnist is to give everybody a spot to teach through curation. The site, which is also available as an app for iPhone and iPad, features user-created lessons that bring together Web pages, videos, Google Books e-books and other items on a specific topic. At the moment, only a relatively small group of people approved by the site - including some teachers - can create these "learnings," but anyone can check them out. Read more: http://techland.time.com/2012/09/18/50-best-websites-2012/#ixzz2KnPnZqks
  • Steve Trumble on 13 Feb 13
     
    Everybody knows enough about some topic to teach other people about it. And every topic is covered by content scattered around the Web. The idea behind a new site called Learnist is to give everybody a spot to teach through curation. The site, which is also available as an app for iPhone and iPad, features user-created lessons that bring together Web pages, videos, Google Books e-books and other items on a specific topic. At the moment, only a relatively small group of people approved by the site - including some teachers - can create these "learnings," but anyone can check them out.
  • psmiley on 22 May 13
     
    Curation
C CC

E-Books and Whole Class Reading - Via Kindle - 0 views

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e-books literacy

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  • C CC on 18 Feb 13
     
    Free Kindle download allows you to read book on IWB with whole class.
Michele Thurlo

Books - Yes, You Can - 2 views

www.yesyoucanonline.info/Book

finance ebook

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  • Michele Thurlo on 18 Apr 12
     
    Free downloadable E-books for personal finance
Martin Burrett

Search-ebooks.eu - Free ebook search engine - 176 views

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ebooks search

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  • Martin Burrett on 11 Dec 11
     
    A good e-book search engine. Search for lots of formats including PDFs and Doc files. Preview books and embed some into your website. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
dmassicg

Parents Primed to Buy Devices and Ebooks for Their Kids This Holiday Season, New Study ... - 8 views

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book trends study ebooks

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  • Nearly 40% of parents with children aged 2-to-13 who read ebooks plan to purchase a new e-reading device for their children this holiday season
  • dmassicg on 07 Jan 13
     
    Nearly 40% of parents with children aged 2-to-13 who read ebooks plan to purchase a new e-reading device for their children this holiday season
Clint Heitz

Do we read differently on paper than on a screen? - 9 views

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reading digital resources

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  • In total, there are more than 180 researchers from 33 different countries participating in the COST-initiated research network E-READ, reading in an age of digital transformation. This network examines the effects and consequences of digital developments in terms of reading.
  • It is not a case of "one size fits all," but patterns are beginning to emerge from empirical research into the subject. The length of the text seems to be the most critical factor. If the text is long, needs to be read carefully and perhaps involves making notes, then studies show that many people, including young people such as students, still often prefer a printed book, even if it is available as both an e-book and in electronic formats with options for making notes, enabling the user to search for and highlight the text digitally. This is not the case when it comes to shorter texts.
  • When reading long, linear, continuous texts over multiple pages that require a certain amount of concentration, referred to as "Deep Reading," the reader often experiences better concentration and a greater overview when reading from a printed medium compared to a screen. When we are reading from a screen, only one section can be seen at a time and the available reading surface area is limited. If you read a printed medium such as a book, several text areas are available simultaneously and it feels easier to form an overview and make notes in the margins.
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  • However, an interesting finding in some of the empirical studies is that we tend to overestimate our own reading comprehension when we read on screen compared to on paper.
  • it has been found that we tend to read faster on screen and consequently understand less compared to when reading from paper. This is a very new research topic and there are studies that have not found any differences in this area.
  • such findings do highlight something very important, namely that we may have a different mental attitude to what we read on a screen. This has very significant implications, including in the context of education.
  • For example, reading literature has proven to have a stimulating effect on the imagination and encourage the development of empathy. Reading has an effect on our ability to concentrate and for abstract thinking. We want to discover if such processes are influenced by the reading medium.
  • There is a need for more empirical research on reading comprehension in terms of screen reading and also on the subjective reading experience.
Tracy Tuten

A guide to online educational resources. - NYTimes.com - 90 views

www.nytimes.com/...18openbox-t.html

education NYTimes guide DE courses

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  • Richard Ludlow started the nonprofit Academic Earth two years ago after M.I.T.'s OpenCourseWare helped him pass linear algebra as a Yale undergraduate. His site offers the courses of 10 elite universities — 130 full courses and more than 3,500 video lectures. Viewers can turn the tables on professors and grade courses. Other guidance includes "Editor's Picks" and "Playlists," lectures selected around a theme like "First Day of Freshman Year" and "You Are What You Eat."
  • Connexions, started at Rice University 10 years ago, debundles education for the D.I.Y. learner. Anyone can write a "module," the term for instructional material that can be a single sentence or 1,000 pages. Connexions hosts more than 16,000 modules that make up almost 1,000 "collections." A collection might be, say, an algebra textbook or statistics course.
  • Daniel Colman is a curator of sorts. He sifts through the vast amount of free courses, movies and books offered online to find what he considers the very best in content and production value. Then he features them on Open Culture, the Web site he founded in 2006. It's a task in keeping with his mission as associate dean and director of Stanford's continuing education program.
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  • At last count, the site had 2,700 audio and video lectures from more than 25 universities; 268 audio books; and 105 e-books. Dr. Colman says he looks for lectures that "take ideas and make them come to life." And so you can learn 37 languages on Open Culture, or stream Jane Austen audio books, Hitchcock films and a John Hopkins biology lecture.
  • Why pay for test prep? M.I.T. OpenCourseWare has culled introductory courses in physics, calculus and biology, along with problem sets and labs, to help students prep for the Advanced Placement exams. (Not to miss an opportunity, there’s a link to the admissions office.)
  • Sydney Lacey on 22 Apr 10
     
    Thousands of pieces of free educational material - videos and podcasts of lectures, syllabuses, entire textbooks - have been posted in the name of the open courseware movement. But how to make sense of it all? Businesses, social entrepreneurs and "edupunks," envisioning a tuition-free world untethered by classrooms, have created Web sites to help navigate the mind-boggling volume of content. Some sites tweak traditional pedagogy; others aggregate, Hulu-style.
  • Tracy Tuten on 23 Apr 10
     
    Amazing online resources for education
kimdoyle

Books on Clouds - 35 views

Cloud-Book- by Tomie-dePaolaShapes in the Sky: A Book About Clouds by Josepha ShermanExtraordinary Clouds by Richard HamblynThe Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds by ...

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Tracy Tuten

Preparing to use Diigo « social media in education - 122 views

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diigo sme Bb class

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      Tracy Tuten on 11 Mar 10
       
      May need to ask Matt Long how to do this
  • Invite students using their University e-mail addresses; also invite the course administrator and another tutor (so that the Diigo work doesn’t get lost if you fall ill). Create a link from Diigo to the VLE (using the HTML code that Diigo provides) so that updates are posted to the VLE (I got the idea of using widgets found in Mason and Rennie’s on E-learning and Social Networking Handbook, 2008:83) – and possible show your Diigo ‘education pioneer’ badge too… See the screenshot from my Blackboard VLE below.
  • Justin Shorb on 10 Mar 10
     
    Checklist for using Diigo in education.
  • Tracy Tuten on 11 Mar 10
     
    Blog post on using Diigo with one's class and linking Diigo to Blackboard
Beth Panitz

Moving the Classroom Outdoors - Stenhouse Publishers - 56 views

www.stenhouse.com/...viewprd.asp

outdoor classroom health learning

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  • Beth Panitz on 06 May 11
     
    Link to free color e-book preview.
Hiliana Leon

Create your own E-Book for your iPad - 211 views

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ebooks

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  • Ruth Howard on 06 Jul 11
     
    You can use it to create ebook for iPad from a blog too
Sean Nash

Avoiding "Unmitigated Disasters" - nashworld - 41 views

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1:1 edtech education failure mission one-to-one PD planning professional development schools strategy technology vision

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  • Sean Nash on 01 Dec 13
     
    "After stumbling upon the article, "Switch to e-books was 'an unmitigated disaster,' says school principal," in my feed this past week, it occurred to me that there are increasingly predictable patterns surrounding stories of failed "innovation" in digital learning initiatives. Schools have been assigning computers to each child for some time now. And still, we continue to see stories like this in the media. In short: we can do better than this."
Marc Patton

Digital Content for Education - 95 views

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Teacher_Resources Teaching_Ideas

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  • Marc Patton on 24 Jan 13
     
    A special collection of books, reports, videos, links, and more resources about e-content in education with the use of Pinterest.
Stephanie Holt

American sitcom speak replaces Aussie language - 9 views

www.theage.com.au/...e-language-20101111-17obc.html

sayings USEnglish idioms popularculture AMEweek11 E&Pweek2 AustralianEnglish TV languagechange

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  • Stephanie Holt on 29 Apr 14
     
    Brief Age article profiling Hugh Lunn and his book on Aussie slang. Bemoans loss of identity and heritage with loss of (cliched) Australianisms in favour of American slang learned from TV.
Derrick Grose

Moving beyond "mountains of dead and mulched - 28 views

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libraries literacy information technology Cory Doctorow adolescents privacy cataloging e-books civil rights human

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  • Derrick Grose on 01 Mar 11
     
    Cory Doctorow discusses the future of books and libraries and what appeals to adolescent readers in an age where technology both inhibits and promotes freedom.
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