"Hi Laurie,
Email or call if you want more information on this! The green dot works well.
Thanks,Joan
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Joan Holopoff replied to Karen Kliegman's discussion Setting Up Nook accounts/purchasing ebooks"Hi Paula,
I have assisted local districts in setting up large nook accounts. We purchased one Visa Green dot prepaid card and used that to set up all of the accounts. The prepaid cards are functional, you just have to go to the website…"
Joan Holopoff replied to Karen Kliegman's discussion Setting Up Nook accounts/purchasing ebooks"Hi Karen,
Are you able to get P-cards (essentially prepaid Visa cards?) Barnes & Noble is working on getting the site to allow POs for ebooks, but in the interim some schools have used prepaid visa's to register their nooks and…"
Joan Holopoff replied to Karen Anderson's discussion Special Education and e-readers? Text to Speech functionality"Publishers are rather resistant to text to speech since they are concerned about the ability to sell audio books. NOOK allows audio MP3 files to be played while EPUB files are in use. www.text-to-speech.imtranslator.net offers an affordable way to…"
Joan Holopoff commented on Marianna DeMott's blog post Getting the Nooks to Students"If you don't want to use a green dot card (Prepaid Visa) you can enter your credit card # to register NOOKs then immediately hit "Remove default Credit Card" and enter gift card #s as needed. This disables credit card from the account…"
Will DeLamater left a comment for Joan Holopoff"Welcome Joan! How do you see ereaders helping kids at school? BTW, check out the webinar we are holding on Nov 9 for educators interested in starting an ereader program at school--details on the home page."
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- At 10:29am on October 28, 2010, Will DeLamater said…
- Welcome Joan! How do you see ereaders helping kids at school? BTW, check out the webinar we are holding on Nov 9 for educators interested in starting an ereader program at school--details on the home page.
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Put Shakespeare in Your Pocket!
Click the QR code on your smartphone to grab Sonnet 65 by the Bard himself! An experiment with how to distribute learning resources to students' mobile devices.
Download the QR code, print it, and post it somewhere for students to access. Or post it on your blog or other school website. Get the i-nigma code reader in the App Store or the Android market. It is the reader we prefer. Courtesy of The Learning Mag.
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