When a reader is given a choice about how to consume their content, a major shift in behavior occurs. They no longer consume the majority of their content during the day, on their computer. Instead they shift that content to prime time and onto a device better suited for consumption.
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Is Mobile Affecting When We Read? « Read It Later Blog - 0 views
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it appears that the devices users prefer for reading are mobile devices, most notably the iPad. It’s the iPad leading the jailbreak from consuming content in our desk chairs.
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Printed media used to allow us to read in the places we found most comfortable ... Unfortunately, as news and media moves online, it moves us away from these places and into our desk chairs .. I've found that as devices become more mobile, it's not only changing where we read, but when. Today, I'd like to show you some of the data behind this movement.
e-books in classrooms - You Are Never Alone - 9 views
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Possible conversation starter - for a future show.
Ugly font may improve learning › News in Science (ABC Science) - 4 views
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"It's important to remember that a good third of our visual cortex ... is devoted to literacy, reading. This 5000-year-old cultural invention has usurped a huge chunk of the brain," he said. "One of the trade-offs of this is that people who can read are a little worse at 'quote-unquote' reading the natural world and remembering objects such as plants and animals, because so much of our visual vortex is devoted to letters, syllables and words."
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Inspired by comic strips and hated by font designers, new research suggests Comic Sans may help people remember what they read.
SnackTools | Free web apps & blog and website widgets - 9 views
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Create your own widgets for your website - banners, photoslideshows, audio, flipbooks, surveys. -
Thanks to @rmbyrne & Free Technology for Teachers
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Six online tool maker apps: flash banner, custom video player, custom audio player, photo slide show, and page flip book from PDF. Free Review at MakeUseOf website.
Living Digitally: Everything You Need to Know About How to Digitally Self Publish - 4 views
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Everything You Need to Know About How to Digitally Self Publish "If you're thinking of publishing to the Amazon Kindle, Apple iBooks store, or to the Barnes & Noble Nook, this article will provide you with everything you need to know to get started."
The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave - 2 views
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"The Complete Guide to Google Wave is a comprehensive user manual by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash. Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help."
Inkling for iPad on the iTunes App Store - 8 views
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"Inkling is a platform for interactive textbooks, built from the ground up for iPad. It turns paper-based textbooks books into engaging, interactive learning experiences while staying compatible with the print book for classroom use."
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Nice interactive app that schools with iPads should consider exploring as a replacement for traditional textbooks.
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Platform for interactive books. Conversion of books to iPad. Add video and QA to content. Purchase chapters or textbook. McGraw Hill platform.
FlipSnack | PDF to Flash - Flip Book Creator - 7 views
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Convert PDFs into stylish page flip books Add a pdf document Convert it to a flipping book Embed & share your flipping book
Mobile - Features | Blurb storytelling - 8 views
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Blurb has a new iPhone app that lets you build slide shows that include audio and video. Hosted online storage. Could it lead to book publishing? Free and $1.99 premium. Twitter/FB sharing.
Google+ Tips and Tricks - Google Docs - 7 views
5 Apps for Creating Interactive Books and ePubs on your iPad - 7 views
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Site sent by Deb Hicks
EPUB to MOBI - 1 views
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"Converts epub to Kindle format - mobi or azw " Simple, straightforward and slick.
BC Open Textbooks - 4 views
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"Open Textbooks Adapted and Created by BC Faculty"
free-programming-books/free-programming-books.md at master · vhf/free-program... - 3 views
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GitHub has compiled this great list comprising more than 500 free books on programming and coding. The books are organised under useful headings cover a multitude of topics.
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