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J Black

Kindle, schmindle...I've got your $350 e-book reader right here | Digital City Podcast ... - 0 views

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  • With all the buzz about Amazon's new Kindle 2, you'd think this revamped e-book reader was the most advanced piece of technology this side of designer babies. After all, for $359, you get a color screen, Wi-Fi and Web browsing, video playback, 60GB of storage, and a reasonably usable keyboard.
  • Not only is there a wide range of PC software available for buying and displaying e-books (and tons of free content as well), when you're done with all that highbrow readin', pop open a Web browser and rot your brain with some Hulu videos.
  • J Black on 05 Mar 09
     
    With all the buzz about Amazon's new Kindle 2, you'd think this revamped e-book reader was the most advanced piece of technology this side of designer babies. After all, for $359, you get a color screen, Wi-Fi and Web browsing, video playback, 60GB of storage, and a reasonably usable keyboard. Oh wait, you don't get any of that stuff. No, that's what $350 can get you if invested in even a low-end Netbook, such as the new 10-inch Acer Aspire One. Not only is there a wide range of PC software available for buying and displaying e-books (and tons of free content as well), when you're done with all that highbrow readin', pop open a Web browser and rot your brain with some Hulu videos.
J Black

Convert PDFs, other files for your Kindle | The Download Blog - Download.com - 0 views

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  • J Black on 05 Mar 09
     
    Kindle users know they can e-mail documents as attachments to their Kindle account and Amazon will convert and upload them to the e-book reader for a 10-cent fee. Windows users aren't tied to the e-mail option, though, thanks to the Auto Kindle eBook Converter.
J Black

Amazon Kindle for iPhone & iPod Touch « THE FIRE WIRE - 0 views

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  • Even if you could never justify spending $360 on a Kindle, you can still partake in the mobile eBook revolution. Amazon Kindle for iPhone & iPod Touch (Free) is a new app that lets you buy and download Kindle books and read them on the go — without buying the Kindle 2. In addition to having access to more than 240,000 books, the app lets you adjust text size, add bookmarks, and get free samples. If you already have a Kindle, the app’s Whispersync technology saves and synchronizes your bookmarks across your Kindle and your iPhone.
  • J Black on 04 Mar 09
     
    Even if you could never justify spending $360 on a Kindle, you can still partake in the mobile eBook revolution. Amazon Kindle for iPhone & iPod Touch (Free) is a new app that lets you buy and download Kindle books and read them on the go - without buying the Kindle 2. In addition to having access to more than 240,000 books, the app lets you adjust text size, add bookmarks, and get free samples. If you already have a Kindle, the app's Whispersync technology saves and synchronizes your bookmarks across your Kindle and your iPhone.
April H.

calibre - E-book management - 14 views

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  • April H. on 29 Dec 09
     
    Converts various documents into readable ebook formats. Also is an ebook reader for your computer. Open source!
Jeff Johnson

MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages - 0 views

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  • Jeff Johnson on 30 Jun 08
     
    Through our interactive projects, journals, games and publications, this treasure trove from author Bill Zimmerman provides people of all ages with affirmation of the human spirit, encouragement of their own creativity and sense of fun, and words of comfort and healing." />metas Make Beliefs, make beliefs for children, make beliefs for adults, make belief, make beliefs cartoons, make beliefs comics by Bill Zimmerman
learnnovators

INFOGRAPHIC: High Performance Learning Ecosystems - 8 views

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  • RT COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS ENHANCED WORKFLOW   x—–x—–x—–x—–x Designed by our Guest Blogger, Arun Pradhan Arun Pradhan has over 17 years’ experience in digital and blended learning. He currently works as a senior Learning & Performance consultant at DeakinPrime, helping to deliver 70:20:10 inspired solutions for some of Australia’s largest telcos, retailers, banks and insurers. In his spare time Arun blogs about learning, performance and 70:20:10 solutions at Design4Performance. x—–x—–x—–x—–x Copyright of posts written by our Guest Bloggers are their own. Published on 19-May-2016   Tin Can API & the Future of E-Learning
  • learnnovators on 20 May 16
     
    In the previous post arun written about the need to design learning & high-performance ecosystems here, and have been reflecting on some common ingredients for effective ones.
  • learnnovators on 20 May 16
     
    In the previous post arun written about the need to design learning & high-performance ecosystems here, and have been reflecting on some common ingredients for effective ones.
anonymous

Tech vs Text: New Study Unveils What Students Are Actually Using To Learn | Edudemic | ... - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 20 Jul 12
     
    Technology is all the rage when it comes to reinvigorating classrooms around the globe. But is that for a good reason or just because it's fun to play with? Do students actually prefer e-books over print? How many students actually own iPads? A new study by marketing research firm Student Monitor has been released and turned into an infographic. Because who likes looking at actual data anymore?
Jerry Swiatek

100+ Alternative Search Engines You Should Know | Tools - 0 views

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  • Jerry Swiatek on 25 Jun 09
     
    Google is the most powerful search engine available, but when it comes to searching for something specific, Google may churn out general results for some. For instance, a search for a song in Google may return the singer, the lyrics and even fan sites - depending on the keywords you entered. This is when niche-specific search engines comes into the picture. These search engines allows you to search for the things you're looking for, and because they are more focused, their results tend to be more accurate. E-books & PDF files, audio & music, videos, etc. are probably the most commonly searched items everyday and with this list, you'll be able to locate them easily from now on. Enjoy!
Jennifer Maddrell

OECD Online Bookshop - 0 views

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  • Learning resources are often considered key intellectual property in a competitive higher education world. However, more and more institutions and individuals are sharing their digital learning resources over the Internet, openly and for free, as Open Educational Resources (OER). This study, building on previous OECD work on e-learning, asks why this is happening, who is involved and what the most important implications of this development are.
  • Jennifer Maddrell on 30 Jun 07
     
    Learning resources are often considered key intellectual property in a competitive higher education world. However, more and more institutions and individuals are sharing their digital learning resources over the Internet, openly and for free, as Open Educational Resources (OER). This study, building on previous OECD work on e-learning, asks why this is happening, who is involved and what the most important implications of this development are.
bengalic

How to Complete the Most of Online Shopping in Bangladesh? - 2 views

The evolution of the internet has completely transformed the traditional shopping experience. People can now find products worldwide and shop instantly, with payments made within seconds. They also...

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Bruce Vigneault

More Readers Are Picking Up Electronic Books - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • which were often hard to use and offered few popular items to read. But this year, in part because of the popularity of Amazon.com’s wireless Kindle device, the e-book has started to take hold.
    • Bruce Vigneault
      Bruce Vigneault on 25 Dec 08
       
      Might this be the future for education?
Bruce Vigneault

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic (July/August 2008) - 0 views

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  • It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.
    • Bill Guinee
      Bill Guinee on 18 Apr 09
       
      I have a stack of books I should be reading right now, but I am cruizing the internet instead.
  • Wolf worries that the style of reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading that emerged when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose commonplace. When we read online, she says, we tend to become “mere decoders of information.” Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged.
  • As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation.
    • Bruce Vigneault
      Bruce Vigneault on 21 Mar 09
       
      Maybe we are learning a new mental skill and as a choice are letting go of a skill that we no longer find useful?
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  • The more they use the Web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing.
  • He speculates on the answer: “What if I do all my reading on the web not so much because the way I read has changed, i.e. I’m just seeking convenience, but because the way I THINK has changed?”
    • Bruce Vigneault
      Bruce Vigneault on 21 Mar 09
       
      I'm not sure that this is necessarily a 'bad thing'?
  • I’ve lost the ability to do that
  • “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins.
  • “We are how we read.
  • mere decoders of information
  • Reading, explains Wolf, is not an instinctive skill for human beings.
  • our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.
  • The last thing these companies want is to encourage leisurely reading or slow, concentrated thought. It’s in their economic interest to drive us to distraction.
    • Bruce Vigneault
      Bruce Vigneault on 21 Mar 09
       
      It is scary to beleive that this organic change to our brain is being driven by commercialism!
  • In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates bemoaned the development of writing. He feared that, as people came to rely on the written word as a substitute for the knowledge they used to carry inside their heads, they would, in the words of one of the dialogue’s characters, “cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful.” And because they would be able to “receive a quantity of information without proper instruction,” they would “be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant.” They would be “filled with the conceit of wisdom instead of real wisdom.”
    • Bruce Vigneault
      Bruce Vigneault on 21 Mar 09
       
      Ahhh... so with each new step in technology this same 'scare' is felt by the elite ;)
  • The Italian humanist Hieronimo Squarciafico worried that the easy availability of books would lead to intellectual laziness, making men “less studious” and weakening their minds.
  • I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense and “cathedral-like” structure of the highly educated and articulate personality—a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the “instantly available.
  • Thieme Hennis on 11 Jun 08
     
    What the Internet is doing to our brains by Nicholas Carr Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Fred Delventhal

Amazon May Face Uphill Battle with Discovery's E-Book Patent | Epicenter from Wired.com - 0 views

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  • Fred Delventhal on 19 Mar 09
     
    WooHoo Wired used one of my pictures!
edtechtalk

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