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If a color Kindle is years away, where does that leave e-textbooks?

Jeff Bezos announced yesterday that a color Kindle was still years away. According to ChannelWeb, Direct from the Kindle King’s mouth: there’ll be no public Kindle sales data to chew on, and a color Kindle is years away…a color version of the Kindle e-reader is still definitely in the development phase. So where does this leave educators, looking to the Kindle and other e-readers as solutions for lowering the cost of textbooks... Read article.

Facebooking Your Way Out of Tenure

How can you minimize the possibility that your blog or Facebook page might hurt your career? Read more.

Beyond E-mail: Managing Content in a Read/Write World

Imagine if you didn't have to depend on a webmaster or techie to update your web site. Read more.

Class lectures? There’s an app for that

The MU School of Journalism is requiring that all incoming freshmen have iPhones or iPod Touch devices to “help students adjust to freshmen year,” Associate Dean Brian Brooks said. “It also would allow them to record lectures and review it. Many schools are doing it now, and it seemed like a great idea to us.” Read article.

District Administrators See Advantages of Web 2.0 in School

While K-12 district administrators are "overwhelmingly positive" about the value of Web 2.0 in schools, the use of Web 2.0 tools in actual learning environments is "quite limited," according to the results of a new study from...read more.

Flip UltraHD Is a Practical, Purposeful HD Video Solution

The popular Flip mini-camcorders provide a small and inexpensive solution for those looking for an easy way to capture video specifically for sharing on the Internet. Read more.

Creating Assignments That Work for Digital Learning Environments

Teachers who spend time actually thinking through assignments that align with the learning outcomes of a course are the most effective in assessing the learning that has taken place. It's debatable that evaluating learning in the purest sense might ever really be possible given the scope of variables in any context of learning, but when assignments are linked closely to outcomes, the results are more significant. Read article.