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scott klepesch's List: EBooks
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Jan 05, 11
"We didn't burn books," said McSwain, a former English teacher who admits feeling emotionally attached to the paper tomes. "All we've done is move a little further into the 21st century with technology in our library."
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To give students easier access to the e-books at school, McSwain bought about 120 laptops for the library. He acknowledged that not all of his 3,250 students have Internet access at home - about 45 percent come from low-income families - but he said he extended the library hours from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
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During lunch time on Monday, dozens of students lined up in the Lamar library to check out laptops from Hurst, though not all of them were reading online
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Jan 12, 11
"From this web site you can read literally thousands of books online, download free ebooks in PDF format, and if you prefer to read from paper, we sell high-quality paperback books at wholesale prices.
We are an independent publisher, specializing in historical writings. This includes works such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, religion, folklore, mythology and sacred texts, in addition to secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic and ancient knowledge. We have fiction and non-fiction books in both print and as e-books for download.
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Mar 04, 11
"The Domino Project is a new way to think about publishing. Founded by Seth Godin and powered by Amazon, we're trying to change the way books are built, sold and spread. Find out more about our mission here.
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Mar 07, 11
Ideas for making the shift to digital texts.
The Internet is the best source of content that’s ever been. The challenge for schools and districts and parents and famillies and municipalities is getting that information into the hands of our students.
It made sense to hand them a book when the experts were far away and the libraries were scarce and only had a few copies of everything. But it doesn’t have to be that way now. In fact, in many ways, it’s not.-
Shift #1 – Let’s make the curriculum map the curriculum map. That’s not a textbook’s job.
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Better yet, can we build our curriculum maps to be digital frameworks, on which we can hang the additional digital resources that we use to help teach our students, standards and content?
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May 23, 11
Taking open source content and turning it into Epub format
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Jul 05, 11
"Several days ago I submitted a proposal for an EduBloggerCon unconference session asking how social media and social networking might help to define digital (next) textbooks"
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So, granting myself permission to call it a textbook, what do I think today’s textbook should be?
Today’s textbook should:
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- Be Provocative (fueled by questions) – The textbook should tactically and strategically leave things out. It provokes questions, the answers of which provide mortar for the personal and participatory construction and reconstruction of the book. It is always broken and always fixable, and the rules belong to the reader.
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Jun 07, 12
Service to create multimedia books. Can invite others in to collaborate on the book.
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