How are your Kindles being used?

[Lisa Harlow]

I am piloting the use of Kindles in the classroom.  I have a 4th grade inclusion class and plan to use them for guided and shared reading.  I would be interested to hear how other schools are using this technology. 

[Tammy Anderson]

We are using Kindles for guided reading in first, second, and fourth grade at our school.  We are also using them for intervention reading groups with second graders. At all levels students are reading books for independent reading on their Kindles.  The Kindles allow students to listen to books that are at a reading level above their independent reading level if the text-to-speech is enabled.  In this way we can use them with heterogeneous reading groups or mixed ability literature circles.

[Lisa Harlow]

Thanks for the info!  Since the Kindles just arrived last week, I plan to use this year's class as guinea pigs to help me work out some of the logistics of using the readers for guided reading and lit circles.  While, I've not yet paged through all the childrens books available from Amazon, I have determined that many of the novels I would like to have used are not available in ebook form.  Are you finding this to be a problem? 

[Tammy Anderson]

I have compiled at list of books that are available on the Kindle. I will attach it when I get home this evening. There are some books my students want to read that are not available on the Kindle, but I was excited to see so many series books.

[Kitty Shadman]

Hello, I have been using Nooks with our K,1 ( wanted  the record voice feature, Bookflix  & Tumblebooks libraries and we use wireless web connection for going to  teacher selected websites)

Now we are introducing the Kindle Touch to our 7th grade inclusion students  and will let them choose summer reading books to take home. Very excited about text -to-speech, dictionary notes etc.In the fall we will give Touches to all 8th graders and our inclusion kids will be the "experts" ( A nice switch in roles for them)

My big question ... does anyone know the best way  for students to share their notes and highlights with other students & teachers and is there a way to transfer them into document form? I noticed that there is a share for FB and Twitter, but am not sure I want to go that public