"My thinking is that if the grant is to buy a specific quantity, go for the Nook Color. But if the grant is for a certain amount of money, you'll get more devices with the e ink and HS students can navigate them easily. For…"
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I read through the thread on Kindle vs Nook and saw a lot of great reasons to go with the NOOK but for school librarians, here's one more. Barnes and Noble offers in-store bookfairs for you school. …Continue
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Kathleen Nester replied to Pam Lilley's discussion Another advantage of the NOOK"We had a Barnes and Noble Book Fair, it was great! we purchased 2 Nooks with the proceeds."
Pam Lilley replied to Dodie Ainslie's discussion Downloading ebooks in the group Nook Users"The only workaround I can potentially see -- though our member from B&N could chime in here -- is to create an a "locked" account. Instead of checking out the Nook, you would check out the account and password to users who…"
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Pam Lilley posted a discussionAnother advantage of the NOOK
I read through the thread on Kindle vs Nook and saw a lot of great reasons to go with the NOOK but for school librarians, here's one more. Barnes and Noble offers in-store bookfairs for you school. I am a school librarian at a school with a fairly weak PTA. I have run two bookfairs a year myself the past two years and it's exhausting. Barnes and Noble offers in-store fairs which take so much work out of the fundraiser. I got information on it from my local store yesterday. The way it works…See More
Pam Lilley left a comment for Jeremy Rinkel"Hi Jeremy. Thanks for the welcome. I have a Nookcolor and my elementary school is going to purchase 3 other Nook Color devices to be piloted in a teacher's classroom. We're excited about all of the possibilities and will…"
Pam Lilley replied to Dodie Ainslie's discussion Downloading ebooks in the group Nook Users"Yes, but you can only "check out" books one time. Once a book has been loaned/borrowed, it will return to the original account and cannot be re-loaned. I do know that you can access a single Nook account on 6 different…"
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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.
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