A chaos of Kindles and a new player in town
Autumn term, and another term of schools still using eBooks primarily as a means to provide yet another tick on the checklist …
Where the blog have you been?
It’s been quite a while since my last post for a number of (good) reasons. I’ve been very busy at work what …
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Just got a surprise email returning from holiday telling me that 8 out of the 10 iPod touches on loan to a …
When I was a lad…
…hand-me-down meant an Action Man with only one working ‘gripping hand’ and an ‘eagle eye’ that looked the wrong way, or a …
Over the bridge and far away
Ah, the Dartford crossing in the grip of autumn fog after a day out at the Essex Schools Library services. It was …
eBook provision for schools
22nd March 2012 Tower Hamlets Schools Library Services, PDC, English St. Interest from schools is rapidly increasing in eBooks, not least because …
60 years to go…
Upon resetting the iPods prior to lending them to the next school I discovered that one wannabe hacker had made 21 attempts …
Making a pact with the devil
This one’s a late evening rant. You have been warned. Because it doesn’t matter how many morons who think that librarians are too stuffy …
Taking things for granted
Sometimes you take the simplest things for granted. Like being able to quickly navigate and move items between file systems. To understand …
eBook D.I.Y
Well, the library has decided to trust me to run a workshop on building a working .epub eBook. The first workshop is …
Evolution evolving
It’s been over two years now since I started this whole project and it’s been fascinating watching the development of the eBook medium. …
All pupils are equal…
I’m desperate to find a school that will let it’s reluctant readers, it’s pupils who refuse to approach books, have a proper …
This is more like it (project update)
One of our primary schools is the latest school to take part in my pilot and represents an interesting development in the …
Minimum required specifications
So, are eBooks and schools compatible? I’ve been running through scenarios of how school libraries could adopt digital texts and have whittled …
Controling interests (project update)
My project has reached its fourth school, or rather it has returned to its second school. It is telling how much an …
It’s not all doom and gloom
Perhaps it was the lack of sunlight last winter, coupled with the general feeling of hopelessness when confronted with the actions of …
Reader’s block
In a fit of facetiousness in a recent presentation on my eBook project I decided to come clean about the pros and …
One down?
It was innevitable, and I’m surprised they all made it this far, but plucky iPod number 5 has gone missing in action. …
eBooks project summary
“Do you work for Apple?” was the rather intuitive question that I was asked by my first group of guinea pigs. If I’d been bag searched at Mile End tube it would look as though I’d just mugged Steve Jobs.
