Wednesday, November 4, 2009
E-Books
Electronic books are truly remarkable! In a graduate class 2 summers ago I actually made my own electronic book. We created our books in movie maker and uploaded them so that our entire class had 20 e-books. The process was fairly easy and fun! I would love to create an e-book with my studetns; however, I feel that that would be a much easier task with upper grade students. As I explored the e-book sites I absolutely loved the on-line version of Lewis Carroll's "Alice". I actually am thinking about letting the electronic book read this story to my class. It would be no different than me reading a chapter book aloud. I also liked the book choices on the "Big Universe" site. I found the project gutenburg site to be difficult to use. Many of the texts seemed to be old and not "current". I truly feel that electronic books will take the place of paper books in the future.
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Kelly,
ReplyDeleteI think you are right, eBooks will take the place of what we know of as regular books at some point in the future. I just wrote a blog post on the Intel Digital Learnings Blog about this topic. The point I was attempting to make is that while eBooks are prefect replacements for text books, I still would like to see a future that includes picture books for students. There is just something about a picture book that I think students need to experience.
Great reflections!