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Using green tech ideas to save paper: I've confessed in the not-so-distant past to my not-so-secret book addiction. There are easily 50 unread tomes on my bookshelf, but I still find it hard to resist a new author. Or a new title by a favorite writer. While the two Web sites that are...; Tags: Green Technology, Textbook, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-04-11
textbook costs have to go: Textbook costs have to goI've alwasy wondered why a group . . .of Universities haven't gotten together to produce some sort of on-line database, ala Wikipedia, to do this very thing. They could restrict input to accredited organizations, with the documents subject to review by the member groups before...; Tags: E-books, textbook publisher, Books, textbook; Discussion threads 2008-01-19
textbook costs have to go: I read a headline in our local paper today noting that a neighboring district was about to spend $40,000 on textbooks, largely to support an updated history curriculum. $40,000!!! This for a district not all that much larger than ours. The most painful part of this figure...; Tags: District, Hardware, Textbook, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-01-18
Larry Dignan loans me his Kindle: Larry Dignan loans me his Kindlemeanwhile....While you are waiting for the textbook capable Kindle you could try this for free: http://www.booksinmyphone.comThe provide public domain and creative commons works (doctorow? stross?) that you can download into your java enabled cell phone. The phone screen is small but within a few minutes...; Tags: phone screen, textbook, Larry Dignan; Discussion threads 2007-12-07
Larry Dignan loans me his Kindle: Fellow blogger, Larry Dignan, loaned me his Amazon Kindle so that I could look at it from an Ed Tech perspective (thanks, by the way, Larry - I promise I'm not downloading the complete works of Neal Stephenson and charging them to your Amazon account). Is this yet another...; Tags: Larry Dignan, E-book, Textbook, Amazon Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2007-12-06

Note to publishers: Make your CDs platform-independent!: I just finished a post about the problems I'd had getting a Windows XP virtual machine to run on OpenSUSE. The only reason I even gave this much thought, though, is because I had new load of textbooks delivered this week with some great supplemental materials on CD. ...; Tags: Linux, Apple Macintosh, CD, Microsoft Windows, Virtual Machine, Textbook, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2007-08-15
Chinese Study Helper (msi): Flash cards with audio pronunciation for Integrated Chinese textbook. The program shows vocabulary and can be sorted for each chapter in the textbook. It shows the Chinese, English and Pinyin of each word. It can also optionally say the word. The source pronunciation sound files are from the CD that...; Tags: Textbook; Software downloads 2007-04-19
One Laptop per Child ... a new perspective: In my most recent post, Its not what their losing, its what they stand to gain, I came across a response from Antonio M. Battro, the Chief Education Officer of the One Laptop per Child association. I want to publicly thank Mr. Battro for his response and to share...; Tags: Notebooks, Antonio M. Battro, laptop computer, textbook, One Laptop per Child; Blog posts 2007-01-30
College limits use of Wikipedia; good idea, site says: College limits use of Wikipedia; good idea, site saysLike textbooks and other books are accurate!?I hate to tell the people pushing this restriction on Wikipedia usage in reports, but textbooks and other books are not much more accurate.One famous example that I remmeber was the textbook that said that the...; Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, encyclopedia, textbook, fleshlight, sex toy; Discussion threads 2007-01-29
Schools balk at ad-supported textbooks: Schools balk at ad-supported textbooksad-supported textbooksThe schools should be doeing everything in there power to help students. The ability to afford textbooks is a problem for students. Ad supported textbooks could reduce textbook prices and the ads could be in the form of coupons or special offers to students that...; Tags: textbook, ad-supported textbook, advertisement; Discussion threads 2007-01-14
Facebook helps students 'bypass the bookstore': I chatted with Melanie Dietch, Facebook Director of Marketing, in October (see “Facebook talks ‘The Real Deal’ in exclusive interview”).While not “face to face,” my discussion by phone was informative and left me with the impression that Facebook is confidently pursuing its stand alone social media opportunities regardless of external...; Tags: Social Media, ecommerce, Social Networking, Facebook, Social Web, Culture, Web 2.0, Business Models; Blog posts 2006-12-14
It's time for the 'paperless' university: It's time for the 'paperless' universityReally????"ow many textbooks could be digitized and placed on a central server for that same $40,000?"....ha, ha, ha. What's your "Lifecycle funding" for legal fees?I didn't say violate copyrights ...Copyright law already permits reproduction for educational purposes under the terms of Fair Use (17 U.S.C....; Tags: textbook; Discussion threads 2006-09-27
It's time for the 'paperless' university: I just read Paperless classroom arrives in TN and I have to say that this is a great idea. It is an idea which my university has been moving toward for years -- but which is still a long way from being fully realized. Why? More on...; Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, textbook, tablet PC; Blog posts 2006-09-25
Paperless classroom arrives in TN: Most people have heard of the as-yet-to-arrive paperless office—but a paperless classroom? Students at one school in Tennessee have practically jettisoned their hefty textbooks in favor of the online version, reports The Tennessean. Students at Battle Ground Academy, a private school in Tennessee, use a tablet to...; Tags: textbook, tablet; Blog posts 2006-09-20
Global Text Project: Wiki texts for third world: A textbook is inherently a work created by committee. And what better technology for collaborating on a textbook than Wikis? The Global Text Project, reports Ars Technica, was born out of a textbook design course at the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business. The course had students...; Tags: textbook; Blog posts 2006-09-06
Schools balk at ad-supported textbooks: Textbook publishing is big business. And perhaps the newcomer on the horizon—the electronic textbook - isn't much of a threat. One company attempting to elbow its way into the e-textbook market is fumbling at providing cheap e-textbooks to students funded with ads, reports The New York Times...; Tags: Freeload Press; Blog posts 2006-08-28
Texas money is for books, not computers: Way back in 1876, the founders of Texas set up a fund - the Permanent School Fund, which now holds $20 billion is assets and generates $800 million a year for textbooks and other materials. Some in the state Legislature want to change the rules and allow the fund...; Tags: computer, Tincy, textbook; Blog posts 2006-07-19
Whither the digital textbook?: What will the textbook of the future look like? Will it be a tiny hand-held device loaded with web links? Will the tomb of trigonometry be simply downloaded onto a PC? Or perhaps a series of articles compiled by professors and accessed on a prepaid site? These were some of...; Tags: textbook; Blog posts 2006-05-31
Will digital libraries hasten the end of the textbook?: Could textbooks be a thing of the past? It’s unlikely that the formidable textbook industry will slip quietly into the night as more scholarly works come online. Increasingly, as portable learning devices are being incorporated into classrooms, one can envision the textbook becoming a bit obsolete. Campus Technology reports...; Tags: textbook; Blog posts 2006-05-03
Time for teachers to tune into iPods: Time for teachers to tune into iPodsiPodsI have been teaching in the area of technology since 1971 and have seen many phases of the technological revolution...and the tremendous impact that they have brought(wrought?).However...we are at times far too quick to make assumptions. My daughter (Grade 10) does not have...; Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Branding, Adobe PDF, textbook, iPODS, MP3, Apple iPod, benefit, MP3 player; Discussion threads 2006-04-25