E-Reader Revolution• Ebooks come in many shapes and sizes and are

different things to different users. Today the first thing that comes to mind may be a Nook or Kindle. But there is a longer history and many providers of digital books, beginning with Project Gutenberg in 1971. This session will cover a variety of formats, including both ebook readers and online formats, along with management of ebook readers in educational settings, the variety of online ebook resources and ways to integrate them effectively into school and classroom use.

Ebooks: Has Their Time Come?Dawn NelsonISD 279, Osseo Area Schoolsnelsond@district279.org

“One thing about eBooks that most people haven't thought much is that eBooks are the very first thing that we're all able to have as much as we want other than air. Think about that for a moment and you realize we are in the right job.“

Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg founder, July,

2011

Outcomes for Today

• Expand understanding of the benefits of eBooks.• Explore emerging practices•Gain knowledge of eBook resources to enable the best decisions to meet future needs. • Embrace the chaos---the world of eBooks and eReaders is new and unsettled, ever-changing

Share & Share & DiscussDiscuss

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Ebooks in Your World

What is your experience with ebooks personally?

What is your experience with ebooks in your school?

What do you anticipate for your school?

Where We’ve Been

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Some of the Earliest known books or CodecsFirst century BC

Linotype Machine

To Today

What’s Ahead?

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How Much Change - Really?

E-Readers: Making Readers Out of More People Than Ever

•53 percent of those who buy e-readers say they’re reading more now than they did six months ago, and just 15 percent of e-reader owners say they stop buying printed books as well.

We are reading.

http://www.techi.com/2011/11/e-readers-making-readers-out-of-more-people-than-ever/

Between November, 2010, and May 2011

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Ebooks Began• Project Gutenberg:• 1971 – “On July 4 1971, after being inspired by a free

printed copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, he decided to type the text into a computer, and to transmit it to other users on the computer network.”

• The first email was sent between two computers this year.

• Now - over 36,000 free ebooks to download to your PC, Kindle, Nook, Android device, iPad, iPhone, etc.

• Work is done by volunteers • High quality, proof read work• http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/• http://www.gutenbergnews.org/ • http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart • http://www.gutenberg.org/

Slow Start

Baby Steps• Voyager Company founded –

expanded books on CD• First 50 books on floppy disks with

Digital Book Format (DBF)• First Ereader and first ISBN given to a

digital book • Steven King’s Riding the Bullet offered

only in digital form. 400,000 downloaded in 24 hours.

• Amazon launches Kindle

• Nook Introduced

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2010 – A Very Good Year

• IPad Introduced with Ibooks•Google Bookstore Opens – 3,000,000 titles•Amazon announced that ebook sales outnumbered hardcover book sales.

What’s Available for Information and Support ?

• http://edukindle.ning.com/ • Ebook Binder - http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/69250 • Ebook LibGuide – Buffy Hamilton - http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/ebooks-ereaders

To Think About -

Find one or two tips for deploying ebooks.

Record them to share with the group.

To Think About -

What Are the Biggest Obstacles to Adding Ebooks in the near future?

What are some steps to get over the obstaces?

Where Do You Find Them?• Overdrive• Project Gutenberg• Tumblebooks• Elibrary• ICDL• B

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Our Adventure Thus Far

• Purchased Nooks, Kindles, and iPads• Unlimited devices on one account •20 Nooks at the high schools

• 3 Kindles – just to test them. Professional titles mainly.• 3 Schools – 6 Nooks each for book clubs•Using the Barnes & Noble Management Feature

We Will Go Forward with Nooks

• Management• Features and quality of the device• Local Service

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXZVqaSPUUg&feature=relmfu