There are getting to be a good number of sites offering free audio books now. Here are a few: LibriVox ManyBooks (This is also a good site for regular text ebooks.) Spoken Alexandria Project Telltale Weekly Gutenberg: Audio Books Project
Michigan Handheld Conference
The 6th Annual Michigan Handheld Computers in Education Conference is coming up soon. It will be held Nov. 9-11 at Washtenaw Intermediate School District in Ann Arbor.
Ebooks
A just-released study by The Survey of Academic Libraries, a benchmarking report published by Primary Research Group Inc. says that “Spending on electronic books by academic libraries has reached a cumulative total of 11% of their spending on print books,
SD cards and Tungsten E2s
Now that larger SD cards are now available (and relatively expensive), it may be worth noting that the Tungsten E2s do not support SD cards larger than 1 GB. Hope this helps some of you.
Sad news
I just heard that Audioblogger, one of my favorite services for posting audio directly from a phone (and which I just blogged about earlier today) is going away. 🙁 They have suggested several other similar services. I’ll check them out
Mobipocket Creator now free
I’ve been raving about Mobipocket as an ebook platform for a while now, and now the tool to create Mobipocket ebooks is free! If you want to see an example of some of things you can do with Mobipocket, check
AvantGo and RSS
From when I first started using handhelds years ago, one of my favorite applications has always been AvantGo. It lets me download the newspaper every morning and subscribe to numerous other publications and web sites, all free of change. Now
Printing without actually printing
I just attended a training on a very useful piece of software, Accelerated Writer, which we are going to be integrating with handhelds in a large middle school project I’m helping to coordinate. The program requires a great deal of
Planning makes all the difference
I just got back from facilitating a professional development day with a small group of middle school teachers in Miami who recently began using handhelds with their students. It was the second day I’d spent with these teachers over the
Happy Constitution Day!
If you haven’t read the Constitution lately, today’s a good day to do it. You might be surprised by what is and isn’t in there.