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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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e-Books - Is the Kindle relevant?

November 5, 2009 – 11:54 am

This week I acquired a Kindle and have begun to read my first e-book on it, and so I’m venturing into thinking about how an e-book reader might be used in education.

I do not want to get into arguments about whether I have chosen the right e-book reader, or about the fact that Kindle is […]

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Good e-textbooks are more than text

September 14, 2009 – 9:00 am

Following on from Thursday’s post about whether textbooks are going to be history, I came across an article which contains suggestions of just how interactive an e-textbook could be.
An article titled New E-Textbooks Do More Than Inform: They’ll Even Grade You talks about new developments that “come with an array of features, including software tools […]

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Will textbooks become history?

September 10, 2009 – 10:23 am

A recent article in the New York Times suggested that “In a Digital Future, Textbooks Are History”.
The article actually goes well beyond textbooks and talks about free online courses, free online content, and it also raises again the spectre of a widening gap between the rich and the poor.
It got me thinking about what it […]

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The e-book re-visited

December 19, 2008 – 8:05 am

Will 2009 be the year of the e-book?
From the UK Independent:

Bookworms who enjoy browsing through dusty tomes in second-hand shops might balk at them, but electronic readers are fast becoming the must-have gadget for literature lovers. Those who have made the switch from conventional books to their sexier, electronic cousins have until now […]

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The future of the textbook

September 19, 2008 – 10:43 am

This posting really follows on from my earlier one: e-textbooks - will they ever become a reality?
I do think that there is a future for the text book, but that it will probably not be the hold-in-the-hand, underline, highlight, paper-based one that our education systems use now. I think the not-so-distant future holds a version […]

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e-textbooks - will they ever become a reality?

September 10, 2008 – 9:33 am

In 2001 I was part of a South Australian study group which went to NECC and took the opportunity to visit a number of American educational institutions.
One of the schools we visited was Steel Canyon High, a new school about to open. In particular we visited the library which at that stage was almost book-less. […]

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