This is a part of a series on mobile devices available for learning. Category: These basic devices are intended for reading ebooks and not much more. (We’ve included the more sophisticated devices from the same manufacturers in our post on
New free ebooks
We are pleased to announce a new collection of ebooks, especially written for elementary and middle school, that are free and open licensed. These books include subjects in ELA, math, social studies, and science and are formatted in web, Kindle,
Interesting moves by Amazon
Amazon made several interesting moves with the Kindle this week. First, they caved on the decision to include text-to-speech in the Kindle 2. Instead of making it a built-in feature, they will leave the decision to turn text-to-speech on up
Integrating handhelds
This is a short presentation on integrating handhelds into the classroom intended for teachers who have some familiarity with handhelds and want to use them more effectively with their students. It also features a list of some of the best
News on a couple of my favorite tech tools
The price on the Kindle has just dropped to $359. I continue to love this device. Getting the New York Times whenever and wherever I want it is such a luxury. And the wireless has worked everywhere I’ve tried it,
Kids ebooks on the Kindle
I am very happy with how easy it is to get ebooks to the Kindle and with the compatibility of Mobipocket (unencrypted) ebooks. The K12 Handhelds ebook library works with no changes at all (and they look beautiful — much
Free online workshop
Well, the workshop on “Using Mobile Technology to Differentiate Instruction” that I wrote about earlier is pretty well finished. I’m really happy with the content in it and think this is a great resource for schools using mobile tech and
Differentiating Professional Development
In my on-going quest to differentiate instruction for teachers as a part of workshops I do, I’ve been experimenting with using blogs and wikis as PD tools. The latest installment in this is a hands on workshop on using mobile
Animal Alphabet
As a part of the fun I’m having contributing to Wikijunior (part of Wikibooks, offering free, open content textbooks), I’ve taken an animal alphabet book there and made video and ebook versions of it. They’re available for viewing and download
Differentiating Instruction with Mobile Technology
At NECC last week, I presented a session called “Using Mobile Technology to Differentiate and Enrich Instruction.” The ISTE folks had wanted to podcast the session, but I wasn’t crazy about the legal agreement they were using. (It wasn’t Creative