Kindle+at+BHS


 * Kindle Collaboration - Bonesteel and Thompson**

I asked Marsha Thompson, media specialist, Linganore High School, how she puts a book on more than one kindle. She said she scrolls down to the "Your Orders" section. Select the correct title, then tell it to "deliver to..." (the Kindle on which you want the book. Here is a screen shot.
 * May 25**

Summary of methods used in the Intro to Business Class. Also check out the student comments from our wiki page list on the left. There are some excellent solutions to placing books on a Nook at eBook Educators Group ([]. B&N will accept a P.O., issue a gift card for the amount of the book, and let you download the book.
 * May 13**

I took one Kindle to the wifi area at Roy Rogers and it would not connect to the free wifi. After many discussions, Charlotte and I are not going to actually use the Kindles at this point. The discussion among others using eReaders seems to point to only the purchse of the 3G model for online access. I will continue to record different methods we used or planned to used. Charlotte and I thought maybe having the students connect their Kindles to their computers, the new items would appear. This did not happen. However, they copied the PDF of Chapter 12 to their Kindle drive Document folder and that worked. Even the gifted books that were send to specific Kindles did not appear. I will try going back to a wifi area with all of them again.
 * May 11**
 * May 6**

Even though our textbook is not available as a book, I discovered I could get a PDF version of each chapter. I e-mailed to each Kindle Chapter 12. Unfortunately, I must take the Kindles to a wifi area in order to download this chapter. When it is available, we will try the-note taking tool as well as accessing a Word worksheet. The social media books purchased by our curriculum specialist came through my e-mail. It was easy to download on specific Kindles. However, I don't know how to share these on other Kindles. We are at somewhat of a standstill because our wifi was removed. Now I have to drive somewhere in wifi vacinity, turn them on and let them download. In looking for other ways to use the Kindle, I saw this quote: "I think students will probably be reading and writing on their lightweight tablet PC's; Kindle's and such seem more for our generation." I used the Web site [] and downloaded some free books for the Intro to Bus students. I picked specific Kindles. This has a great list but was last updated Sept. 2010. The Web site [] also has an extensive very organized list of free books. A membership is required.
 * May 4**
 * April 27**

There is a Kindle forum at eBook Educators, []. They are just starting with their Kindles. Most of the comments are about reading; however, there is talk of collecting resources. I have placed one chapter from the CK12.org Economics book on each of the Kindles. The students will be doing a "jigsaw" activity with the different parts of this chapter. Four students are taking theirs home to do some preparation work on each of the four sections.
 * April 7, 2011**

I checked with Amazon and USA Today about a subscription. Currently it would be $14.99 a month per Kindle. I have also contacted the education division of USA Today and had no response to date. Our curriculum specialist offered to purchase books, and I requested several books for the Intro to Business students. Amazon said the best way to do this is to have the county purchase the items and gift them to my account. I can then distribute them to the 12 Kindles. Each book can be put on 6 to 8 Kindles at no extra charge. This allowance is per publisher.

Although the book downloads are successful, we have a problem with how to download materials from vendors. With my Kobo account, I can pay for books, newspapers and other materails with a FCPS p-card. An account is set up and it is very easy to buy and download - takes just minutes. How are we going to download materials for each student ereader? Will a staff member need to download the materails to each ereader? If students have the account number to download their own materials they will be able to purchase what they want! There are schools that are using Kindles exclusively so I'll do some research to see how they manage their accounts.
 * March 23, 2011**

I used the print option of an article concerning the stock market. I printed to Adobe PDF, sent the file to each of the Kindles using an e-mail group. The students walked into the cafeteria and the article popped right up on their Kindles. They could carry their Kindles with the article up to the response sheets hanging around the room. We had to enlarge the text and then scroll from side to side because of the PDF format.
 * March 23, 2011**

I accessed ck12.org. They have a lot of math, science, and engineering lessons. You can select a chapter, rearrange the chapters, or edit the chapters. I selected two chapters from the lone Economics flex book. I downloaded these two chapters as PDF files. I then e-mailed the file to one of the student's Kindles. It was converted to a "book." He walked into the Cafeteria where we have wifi and it was on his Kindle. The e-mail addresses assigned to the Kindles are for this purpose. The are for incoming mail only. HTML, Word, and PDF files are sent as an attachment (no subject required) and the Kindle-ready book is created. If copyright is not an issue, news articles could be sent to the Kindles for our readings every Thursday.
 * March 22, 2010**

I wanted to try this with the Kobos and the Literati. I followed Sandi's directions and was successful. The articles downloaded to the Kobo. I want to find more information about how textbooks download and function on the Kindle. Charlotte
 * March 21, 2011**


 * March 17, 2011**

The Intro to Business Students accessed the [|http://www.ereadups.com] site and dowloaded "books" about their timeline subjects. This class is already in a computer lab, but other classes could be in the lab to download their content and then go back to the classroom with the text available. The students then went looking for free books they could use either in this class or another class, especially AP classes. Some of the students went to, []. It requires a membership. The free membership will let them download books in PDF format. These can be converted to the Kindle format.

Other students went to the Amazon.com free Kindle books site. They had to use the teacher's e-mail address and password. However, I do not have any credit card or other means of paying for purchases saved on the site. They had to select their Kindle name. They downloaded the free books, walked to the cafeteria where we have WIFI and instantly had their books. The students will have a Kindle comment page at http://bhsweb.wikispaces.com/.


 * March 16, 2011**

Kindles have been registered and a Kindle folder created on the C: drive of each computer station giving access rights the the BHS Student group. The folders in the E:drive that opens when the Kindle is connected to the workstation were copied and placed in the C: drive folder. The Web site eReadUps was used - []. We did a search for Harper's Ferry. The Kindle was connected to the workstation. Once we disconnected the USB cable and turned the Kindle on, the Harper's Ferry book was on the Kindle and ready to read. We are excited!
 * Checked off three sites
 * Clicked the button Build my eReadUp
 * It bundled the content of the three sites
 * We had the option to download now or have it e-mailed.
 * We opted to download now; saved it in the C: Kindle/document folder; copied the file to the E: Kindle/document folder

This means we don't need the C: drive access because we copied the file. The students can save their files in their own directories.