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Kathleen Hillman

Apple Ergonomics - 0 views

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shared by Kathleen Hillman on 06 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Kathleen Hillman on 06 Nov 13
     
    This site is devoted to the safe use of computers and IPads
  • Kathleen Hillman on 06 Nov 13
     
    This site is devoted to the safe use of computers and IPads
Moira Joyce

Are Ebooks Any Good? | School Library Journal - 3 views

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shared by Moira Joyce on 05 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • School librarians appear to be bracing for a shift: SLJ’s survey showed that a majority of elementary school librarians said they either will (18 percent) or may (46 percent) purchase ebooks in the next two years. States and school districts are starting to make deals with ebook companies to provide yearly subscriptions to thousands of students at a time
    • Moira Joyce
      Moira Joyce on 05 Nov 13
       
      This is an interesting statement in the article as our district is one that will invest in an ebook collection in the coming year.
  • Another sign of change comes from Scholastic’s 2010 reading habits survey, which shows that the youngest respondents—six- to eight-year-olds—were more likely than their older counterparts to have read an ebook. That exposure, says Judy Newman, president of Scholastic Book Clubs, may reflect the fact that little children have younger parents who may be introducing them to online content at home.
  • Sue LaFlamme on 05 Nov 13
     
    I started purchasing ebooks for my middle school library about 2 years ago. I have 12 Nook Simple Touch ereaders and I also have about 20 ebooks accessible online through our Follett Destiny online catalog. I wanted students to have the experience of reading digitally because that is the trend of the future. The Nooks only have fiction books on them. Students like to change the font size, and look up words with the onboard dictionary, but the option to create notes is rarely used. The one criticism students have is that it is a grayish screen with the e-ink and not in color and back-lit like their phones. There are many students who report reading their parents Kindles or Nooks or own their own. I purchased nonfiction ebooks for Follett Destiny on topics that students do projects on every year, such as Natural Disasters. This makes them available to students 24/7 and I paid extra for simultaneous access. That means you don't download the book to your device. You can look up information online in the book and a whole class could do it at the same time. Teachers use these ebooks on their Smartboards to teach text features. When I have a larger collection of ebooks, I will enable the download feature. I personally average one novel per week and read on my Nook tablet, my ipad and print books from the public library. I enjoy reading on all of them, like the ability to download the exact title want when I want it including free ones from the public library. I still read print books regularly but much prefer reading magazines in print than digitally. I'm very interested in learning how to help students become fluent in reading and navigating digitally--that is why I loved the chart in the article Jim posted.
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