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Here at Southwestern, all of the HS libraries own Kindles that we load and then lend out just like books. We will NOT be using WhisperCast, since it would prevent us from using the cost effective 1:6 ratio. Also, we were not interested in our District managing our Kindles for us, as we feel we understand the mission and purpose of each of our school libraries better than they do. So we were planning on not using WhisperCast anyway, the keeping of the 1:6 ratio was a bonus, as we…

My school has been given 50 simple touch nooks as a gift. It is our first step into electronic devices and any advice that can be offered will be most gratefully received. All we have done so far is to register them, each in account with six books. I have heard from a number of sources that Barnes and Noble are really wonderful to work with.

Well, my school has decided to take the plunge (in the shallow end of course) for implementing Nooks as a 1:1 device starting with our Freshman next year.  We started this adventure this school year by purchasing Nooks for all teachers and classroom sets (30) for each of our English classes.  It has been an adventure so far, with most of the challenges coming from managing the devices.  We decided not to go B&N managed in order to keep the 1:6 title ratio, but I can tell you that it is…

At a 1:1 school, all of our students can access the Kindle App on their Lenovo tablets.  This is great for public domain texts.  It is great for me to use as I teach by projecting the App onto the board so that we can do close readings of a passage.  But, it is frozen in time.  No updates, no changes, no improvements.  It feels like the App is the red headed stepchild at Amazon. 

Here is what I want: I want to be able to tag my notes and then search my notes and sort my notes…

I am sure that all you Kindle-philes were delighted to see that Amazon has responded to just about every objection educators have ever voiced about trying to manage multiple devices with its WhisperCast release.

In short, WhisperCast is a free management tool for schools and organizations who want to distribute content across multiple devices, and who want to exercise more control over the operation of those devices. You can get the details from Amazon right…

Hey everyone, I am a doctoral candidate at Grand Canyon University.  For my dissertation I am examining the use of e-readers with students diagnosed with autism in grades 3-6.  If you have students diagnosed with autism currently in your class in grades 3-6 and are willing to help, can you please inbox or comment?  I am in need of participants.  There will be no direct contact with me and the students, I just need to know how often they use the technology.  I am also willing to help anyone…