Archive for the ‘ebooks’ CategoryIn the wildMonday, December 26th, 2011
Just a couple of weeks back, Kristin Fontichiaro gathered the writings of the diverse group of grad students–pre-service librarians and educators–in her University of Michigan School of Information Google ebooks get “notable”Saturday, December 10th, 2011On Thursday, the Inside Google Books blog announced a couple of powerful new features for Google ebooks. You can now highlight–with a variety of marker colors–and take notes in many of the Google ebook in your Library. That includes books you’ve purchased as well as the free books you’ve grabbed. Here’s what it looks like in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (from the Google Books blog post)… Read More Just published: School Libraries: What’s Now? What’s Next? What’s Yet to Come?Sunday, October 23rd, 2011Holy collaboration! Looking for some updated thinking about school libraries?
Kristin Fontichiaro and Buffy Hamilton just released the ebook they recently crowdsourced and edited: School Libraries: What’s Now, What’s Next, What’s Yet to Come? It is now available for free download in three formats:
School Libraries: What’s Next (an ebook project)Friday, July 22nd, 2011Share your vision for our future. Please consider contributing to this exciting crowdsourced collaborative visioning project coordinated by Kristin Fontichiaro and Buffy Hamilton. We are delighted to accept submissions for a collection of crowdsourced short I could get hooked on VookSaturday, May 28th, 2011Time to celebrate even more ways to remix and mashup the wonderful experience of reading! I have a feeling that the Vook and the TextVook are going to be popular reading options for many of our young readers and learners. ICDL goes mobileTuesday, January 25th, 2011I just discovered that one of my very favorite booky destinations is now available as an app. The International Children’s Digital Library, a beautiful, multilingual portal, offering a large collection of free children’s books from around the world, can now be viewed on your iPad and on your iPhone, as well. Google ebook store launchesWednesday, December 8th, 2010On Monday, Google launched its ebook store, allowing readers to purchase or download free ebooks from the world’s largest selection of ebooks, across a variety of supported devices and reader apps: Nook, Sony, Android, the Web. (Those that support the Adobe eBook platform. But not my Kindle.) Today I am introducing it to 12th grade honors English as one option for choosing their upcoming independent read. (We’ll… Read More Edublogs Awards 2010Sunday, November 14th, 2010
Think of this event as an opportunity to celebrate your favorite blogs, but more importantly, as an opportunity to discover and explore outstanding blogs and also tweeters and podcasters and wiki owners and hosts of online communities and media producers you have never heard of before… Read More Very Kind Kindle support from Buffy! (and on further celebrating our network)Saturday, November 13th, 2010I love you, Buffy J. Hamilton! And I love our network!
Earlier this fall I worked with the Special Ed Department on a Kindle roll-out, a project we’ve set up as a formal research project to explore the effect of ereaders on reading motivation. But when we unpacked our own first library Kindles yesterday, a lovely gift… Read More R & J remixed and enriched!Sunday, October 17th, 2010A thousand times good day! I discovered Interactive Folio: Romeo and Juliet from my Diigo in Education group this week and I am in love. This may be one potion to cure the star-crossed relationship some of my students experience with the Bard. I want to take all my Shakespeare with a pinch of Canadian Adaptation. (I hope they choose to go further than R… Read More
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