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Tina Ulrich

Nook Simple Touch compared to Kindle 3 - Marco.org - 0 views

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  • Tina Ulrich on 06 Jun 11
     
    Pretty much the same except the new Nook has a touchscreen. Amazon is keeping its Kindle users because Kindle books cannot be read on any other device.
Tina Ulrich

The Kno Textbook App Hits The iPad - 0 views

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  • The iPad app allows you to organize your digital textbooks and PDFs by dragging and dropping them into “courses.” Once you open a textbook, you can swipe through the pages or navigate via a filmstrip of thumbnails up top. There is also full text search. Pages can be bookmarked and highlighted. You can also add digital sticky notes which pop out from the margins.
  • The highlight feature is a nice touch. You can also launch a Web or Wikipedia search based on a highlighted word
  • pretty solid and will compete based on the breadth of its textbook selection and pricing.
  • Tina Ulrich on 06 Jun 11
     
    Textbook app for the iPad. Looks great!
Tina Ulrich

http://education.newsweek.com/2011/01/25/who-needs-textbooks.print.html - 0 views

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  • Washington’s Open Course Library is the largest state-funded effort in the nation to make core college course materials available on the Web for $30 or less per class.
  • . Instructors are also free to add or subtract content to suit their needs.
  • project head Green says, “the intellectual property license on content has absolutely nothing to do with quality of content.
  • ...4 more annotations...
  • the initiative could save Washington State students up to $41 million in textbook costs per year.
  • Rice University has hosted Connexions, a vast, online database of open-source educational modules from elementary school though post-graduate level material on topics ranging from algebra to literary criticism since 1999, but this global site (which is funded by some $7 million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation) can be difficult to navigate
  • Utah State University, which launched a similar project in 2005 and currently offers free materials for more than 80 courses, ranging from cultural anthropology to avalanche and snow dynamics.
  • While recruiting teachers to create original online course materials may save schools money initially (by reducing the amount of state grant money used to foot the bill for pricey textbooks), the programs still need to make sure they are sustainable in the future
Tina Ulrich

The State News : MSU survey looks at viability of e-books - 0 views

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  • The campuswide student survey, which is part of MSU’s Environmental Stewardship Initiative and is expected to be completed in September
  • Tina Ulrich on 27 May 10
     
    MSU is conducting a survey of students to try to determine whether they are ready to adopt ebooks as texts. Focus on reducing paper waste.
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