1. Kindles in Class (early feedback)
Duncan Garbett
Early days of a project to identify Uses, Impact, Impact and Benefit

2. Outline:
Vital ethos and Kindle project
Locations/Targets
Basic operation/functions
Dictionary
Screen functions
Text to speech
Collections – What do you use?
ebooks (Rising Stars) and PDF files – what differences?
3G/Wireless connection

3. Share Kindle experience
T’s should own, apply and drive Professional Development – more Learning Impact

4. Mid June 2011 – Mid Sept first loans
Use/Impact in;
Learning
Teaching
Administrative tasks
Mid June 2011 – Mid Sept first loans
Phase 2 Oct – March loans to project schools
Jan 2012 – BETT seminar
Library use
March 10th 2012 – Naace Strategic Conference. Leicester (school feedback)

5. Oxford dictionary 5

6. Select dictionary definitions
Poor readers with low motivation 6

7. Select;
Font Size Type
Page Orientation
SEN Quote? 7

8. One of the children with impaired vision who has experienced nausea and headaches with ipads and laptops has now been able to enjoy reading on the kindle with enlarged text …and has been able to try more titles/genres because there are fewer limitations when using the kindle. 8

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10. Collections;
What materials will schools use?
What makes a difference?

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16. PDFs;;
Readable but fewer functions 16

17. Consider & prepare PDFs

19. Trips/Visits?

20. Text to speech
MP3s
Browser - decision

21. Registration ?

24. Sending material to social media; Kindle to Twitter…. Uses?

25. Next steps
Need to innovate
How it is used rather than what it is
Quality comes from application
Work with interesting applications
Impact to benefit