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e-books webinar update

June 18, 2010 – 12:25 pm

The text chat and audio record from the e-books webinar held yesterday 17 June are now available.
The focus of the session was on discussing strategies and show-stoppers.
Locate the records in Section 7 of the edna group on e-books at
http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=2497
You don’t have to be a member to access these records.

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What will conversion to e-books take?

June 11, 2010 – 10:52 am

It seems that the adoption of e-books as a way of reading texts (or fiction) in educational institutions is going to be a bit slow and painful.
Once we get past the “which device” argument then there are other issues.
The article Not everyone ready for the digital textbook revolution in yesterday’s E-school News is just one […]

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e-books Webinar, June 17

June 4, 2010 – 12:00 pm

The focus of the webinar will be on strategies for implementing the use of e-books in libraries or classrooms.
It will be held in the free Elluminate room on Learn Central at
Jun 17 2010 - 3:30pm - 4:30pm-Jun 17 2010 , Australia/Adelaide(GMT+10:30)
URL: https://sas.elluminate.com/d.jnlp?sid=lcevents&password=Webinar_Guest
This is a follow up to a webinar held in the same venue last […]

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followup to the e-books webinar 13 May

May 14, 2010 – 9:38 am

Many thanks to all those who dropped in at the very successful e-books webinar yesterday.
We really had a great conversation and plan a follow up some time in June after people have had a chance to see the iPad (apparently now due for delayed release in Australia in the first week of June)
The archive of […]

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e-book readers and reading competence

May 12, 2010 – 11:45 am

A colleague remarked yesterday that in thinking about utilising e-books and e-book readers we shouldn’t forget about their effect on reading enjoyment.
I’ve been thinking for a long time about whether I actually read faster when I read on my Kindle. Anecdotal evidence from friends seems to indicate that it is not an illusion - we […]

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Questions about e-book readers

May 3, 2010 – 8:52 am

We have been thinking about the utilisation of e-book readers in teaching and learning for over 10 years now. Are we any closer to implementation?
I think we are. But it has taken the adoption of e-book readers by the reading public, and vendors like Amazon in particular, to push it back onto the education agenda. […]

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e-books in teaching and learning

April 21, 2010 – 9:49 am

Did you realise that we’ve been talking about e-books now for 40 years? Check this timeline.
Traditionally change takes a long time in education but maybe this year we are really going to see something happen.
Are we any closer to seeing e-books and e-book readers in our classrooms and libraries?
Join an online discussion about the implementation […]

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Interested in discussing e-books in teaching & learning?

March 22, 2010 – 12:32 pm

I am interested in generating some discussion about e-books and their use in teaching and learning.
I believe there is quite a bit of fruitful sharing that could go on and so I’m letting you know that as a starting point I have created an edna Group.
It is public and can be found at http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=2497
I’m regarding […]

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Kindling along: an update of my Kindle experiences

January 21, 2010 – 12:34 pm

Although I still read paper versions of books, I am well and truly hooked on my Kindle, and I think it has huge potential for Australian education as does any other e-book reader/tablet. The Kindle I have is the 6″ version: very portable and great for reading fiction on.
Did you see that this week Amazon […]

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Update: Thinking about Kindle

December 2, 2009 – 8:29 am

Nearly a month has passed since I first reported the arrival of my Kindle. I’m still not sure how widespread its adoption will be in Australian education but I just thought I’d share some of my experiences. Quite a number of people commented and linked back to my earlier post, and I hope you’ve seen […]

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