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Ebooks Are Great — Just Not for Young Readers

Edsurge

When you talk to an adult reader about ebooks, they typically come down on one side of the fence or the other. Ebooks do their best to replicate (or improve upon) all that’s good about reading. The interactivity is where ebooks tend to claim the higher ground. The same happens in Kindergarten at elementary school.

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OverDrive launches QuickStart eBooks for elementary schools

eSchool News

OverDrive, an eBook and audiobook platform for schools, wants all kids to become great readers. OverDrive’s K-5 QuickStart offers young readers a premium collection of 200 eBooks, including Read-Alongs such as the Summer Camp Science Mystery Series, The Mallory Series and Noisy Bug Sing-Along, picture books and other titles.

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COVID-19 Is Forever Changing How Students Experience Libraries

Edsurge

A New Chapter for Book Borrowing In the East Baton Rouge Parish School District, which spans more than 80 schools in Louisiana, Library Services Director Susan Gauthier laughs at a memory from six years ago when she told librarians to spend no more than 10 percent of their budget on ebooks.

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Book Creator for Chrome: Product Review, Tips and Tricks for Teachers

The CoolCatTeacher

Students who use Chromebooks, PCs, Macs, iPads, or any other device can now create books with this versatile, easy-to-use app. They can also send them as eBooks that people can read on their mobile devices or computers. Here’s a class library for an elementary classroom. Post sponsored by Book Creator. All opinions my own.

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Savvy #ISTE17 Interviews: BYOD ISTE Sessions for Tuesday

Teacher Reboot Camp

Get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers or my ebook, Learning to Go. Computer Programming in the Elementary School (B313). Chrome App Smashing to Create Chromebook Generated Videos (B332). Cori Coburn. Watch on #Periscope : Savvy interviewing @coburncori now #NotAtISTE17 #ISTE17 #PasstheScopeEDU #ISTE2017 [link].

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Simple Virtual Reality in the Classroom with Google Streetview and Google Cardboard with Donnie Piercey

The CoolCatTeacher

Owl Eyes has hundreds of free ebooks — the Canterbury Tales, The Odyssey, and all of Shakespeare’s work. But Owl Eyes isn’t just an ebook reader. Donnie has run a 1:1 iPad, Chromebook, and Macbook classroom over the course of his ten year teaching career. Donnie received a B.A.

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23 Gsuite Ideas to Excite Your Kids About Learning #iste19 #notatiste19

The CoolCatTeacher

Read more: Creative Slide Uses for Students Idea #9: Create eBooks or Storybooks with Google Slides In the same vein you can create eBooks or storybooks with Google Slides where each slide is a page of the eBook and you are allowed to change the page dimensions, it doesn’t have to be the normal landscape.

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