Announcing the Kindle Fire Amazon announced a few new Kindles today, the most important, in my mind, is the Kindle Fire. It is a 7″ tablet running a specialized version of Android. The shocker was the price, \$199. With todays announcement, every school district that is looking at mobile devices will need to take a pause and examine what the… Read more →
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A Kindle, iPad, and iPod Touch walk into a classroom – #neotech2011
Here are the slides with notes: Handout from my presentation. For those following along with Twitter here are the results of the poll: [][] I really enjoyed the conference, and want to thank everyone that was involved at putting it on. It was very well run (although I didn’t win the MacBook Air door prize… :-). Read more →
A Kindle, iPad, and iPod Touch walk into a classroom – #oetc11
The slides are available on Google Docs. Read more →
The Kindle DX is available for pre-order, does anyone care?
Today’s announcement of the Kindle DX, a 9.7″ version of the Kindle is being hailed as some sort of savior of the newspaper industry and a breakthrough for the college textbook market. At almost \$500 I don’t see it as either. The biggest negative about the Kindle will also be the last thing fixed, if it is ever addressed, and… Read more →