Where do you get it? Calibre launches DRM free
calibre introduces Open Books, a site for easy browsing of DRM-free e-books (e-books without DRM) that are not in the public domain. Open Books is a compilation non DRM e-books from various sources...
View Articlee-textbooks in schools: what do you need to think about?
Here in Australia school administrators and teachers are already beginning to think about next year. In terms of converting over to e-textbooks for 2011 they've already missed the boat, but are...
View ArticleiPad trials in Australia
2011 has seen the proliferation of iPad trials in Australian schools and Universities. In most of these cases the iPad has been adopted as much for the Apps available as for its e-reading tools. Here...
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40 years of e-books
You might like to check the rest of the infographic above on TeleRead. I hadn't realised until looking at that, that Project Gutenberg was that old, or that the digitized Declaration of Independence...
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Observing ALL BLACK DAY March 22, 2011
On February 22, 2011 Christchurch was devastated by an earthquake. Lives were lost and others irrevocably changed. The city centre sustained massive damage and the landscape will never be the same....
View ArticleWhat are your top 10 ICT tools for education?
I am interested in knowing which are the ten ICT tools that you use most often (or are the most useful). Think about what you've used most often in the last 10 days. Here are mine Email: I have 2...
View ArticleWill books ever die?
A tongue-in-cheek article I discovered today Product Review: Will 'Paper' Replace E_readers starts We were given some review samples of a new technology called ‘paper’ earlier this week. Paper is a...
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Has Twitter changed the way you communicate?
I wasn't amongst the early adopters of Twitter, and I had seen it demonstrated as a "back channel" at a couple of conferences before I finally tried it out. An article in Tuesday's Sydney Morning...
View ArticleDoing it a bit differently - teaching with blogs
Many teachers will tell you that they don't have time to blog, on top of everything else that they do. But these have missed the point that blogging isn't just spruking on the street corner, hoping...
View ArticleWill I eventually have to upgrade? - my Kindle, that is
My Kindle is a Kindle2, one of the white ones that has been around for over 18 months. The Kindle3, which is the graphite (greyish) one that was released in time for Christmas giving last year, is...
View Articlee-readers are not "shared" devices
Many schools implementing e-reading devices, whether they are dedicated e-readers like the Kindle or multi-purpose devices like the iPad, have built up cases for buying batches of them, storing them...
View ArticleOn the lookout for e-book trials
That Australian educators and educational administrators are very interested in how e-books and e-readers might be incorporated into the implementation of the curriculum is being demonstrated by the...
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Most of us don't re-sell our books
One of the problems schools have struck in implementing e-textbooks relates to the re-sale model. While in the "real", entertainment world, most of us don't want to re-sell the books that we buy, we...
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A book you should read: A THOUSAND CUTS by Simon Lelic
I'm re-publishing here a review for a book that I think at least every teacher should read. This edition, an ARC from VIKING, published as A THOUSAND CUTS in 2010 aka RUPTURE ISBN 978-0-670-02150-5...
View ArticleHow to help teachers do it better
The Australian newspaper today points to a new report: The Grattan Institute's report Better Teacher Appraisal and Feedback: Improving Performance, released today, shows that a system of meaningful...
View ArticleAmazon launching Kindle Library Lending
You've probably already caught up with the announcements by Overdrive and Amazon that they are collaborating on a Kindle ebook lending service. The details are not very clear at the moment but it...
View ArticleProductive in the classroom with e-books
One of the topics I'd like to explore in the coming months is classroom productivity using e-books. As I've commented before, if all you are doing in your classroom with your e-reader or e-reading App...
View ArticleThe end of an era
Today I am retiring. I reached that magic 65 a couple of months ago but today has arrived faster than I thought it would. Retirement for me means the end of formal employment, but I'll still be...
View ArticleThe chicken or the egg? - talking of e-books
That caught your attention didn't it? as you scratch your head to fathom what I am going to write about it in this post? I don't believe that many schools that are considering implementing e-books and...
View Articledecommissioning of edna - the loss of a vision
On Tuesday this week we heardedna is to be decommissioned commencing 30 June 2011 and be completed on 30 September 2011. This decision is the outcome of a recent review. The seeds of the...
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