Category Archives: eBooks
Hey, Grown-Ups: Teens and YAs Still Give Print the Edge
The Guardian summarizes a survey done by Voxburner on the reading preferences of over 1400 16 – 24 year-olds. According to the survey, conducted earlier this fall, 62% prefer print books over eBooks. Says Liz Bury, author of the brief Guardian article: … Continue reading
Free through Friday: Martinez & Stager’s INVENT TO LEARN book
Amazon.com: Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom eBook: Sylvia Libow Martinez, Gary S. Stager: Kindle Store via kwout I’ve been hearing more and more from teachers and librarians interested in starting a makerspace or embedding maker … Continue reading
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Free Access to eBooks by Seymour Simon and more
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Lucélia Ribeiro When I was a brand-new librarian, a publisher took a chance on me and signed my first book contract. That publisher was Ron Maas at Libraries Unlimited, a … Continue reading
Essay Collection on Teacher Librarianship
Congratulations to Jennifer Branch, Joanne De Groot, Kandise Salerno, and their University of Alberta students on the publication of an essay collection on teacher librarianship! Read it for free here! When taken in the proper dosage, cialis without prescriptions … Continue reading
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CCSS and Digital Testing
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Håkan Dahlström I’ve long worried that schools are focusing so much on acquiring print texts for Common Core State Standards alignment that they’re overlooking the fact that the standardized tests from … Continue reading
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Free Book on Ed Tech Policies, Practices, Procedures
On behalf of my co-teacher Jeff Stanzler, we are pleased to announce our yearlong ED 504 class project — a book for teachers about ed tech policies, practices, and procedures — has been published! We’re printing copies on our campus … Continue reading
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Salon.com: Reading Comprehension Onscreen May Not Be As Deep
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by jblyberg Salon.com has a fabulous long-form article summarizing a series of studies about retention, comprehension, and memory as it relates to reading onscreen versus in print. I have long had a … Continue reading
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Video/Audio: NYPL’s Anthony Marx at Cornell: “Do We Need Libraries?”
Next term, I’ll teach Professional Practice in Libraries and Information Centers, a course for all kinds of future librarians and archivists. It’s sometimes a challenge to find provocative content that addresses all of their points of view: public, academic, and … Continue reading
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Comparing eBooks to Enhanced eBooks for Children’s Comprehension (study)
Print Books vs. E-books (Joan Ganz Cooney Center) via kwout My post on the summary of this study is up on the School Library Monthly blog. Would you like to be re-energized, stronger, have better sex? Tongkat Ali just may cipla … Continue reading
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A Tale of Two eBook Vendors: Who Will Libraries Support?
The American Library Association is taking issue with Random House’s decision to set a far higher (sometimes double) price for its eBooks being sold to libraries. An excerpt from the Associated Press story in the Wall Street Journal: The American Library … Continue reading
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