Learn Kindle Artifact
Project Gutenberg Artifact
Reflection for Thing 9
For me the Kindle is the easiest app to use. But I have been using it for quite awhile. I have it installed here, on both of my daughters tablets and on my phone. I use it constantly. I have books for my son to read, books for me, and books for my daughters. I've read entire books on the kindle app on my cell phone. The ease of always having it with me makes it so much easier then having to remember to grb a book when I'm headed out the door to a doctor appointment or sporting event. Project Gutenberg is a new site for me. I spent quite a bit of time looking at it. My biggest issue with the site is you have to access it through Safari on the iPad and I prefer Chrome. I can see using Project Gutenberg to download books for my students to read during snow days, vacations, days off, etc. instead of Kindle where I would have to purchase the books.
I defiantly prefer to use an eReader instead of a traditional book these days. The downside is the cost to purchase them and the amount of battery reading on an eReader uses. I do like being able to highlight passages, read other peoples comments about passages and keep track of what page I'm on synced between multiply devices.
Did you have a chance to take a look at any of the interactive ebooks that can be downloaded via iBooks? Some of the DK books are very engaging and all have free samples. Safari Math Grades 3 - 5 might be of interest to you. Here's a link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/safari-math/id521644597?mt=13
ReplyDeleteThe embedded interactive features in certain iBooks like videos, self-check quizzes, 3D objects and photo galleries are worth exploring.