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CarolynBG · 07-22-2011, 05:56 PM

Pidgeon92, thanks for replying.

That's what I feared, I have to set it up myself. OK, so be it. We already were going to keep track of which kid has which device, and already were going to have the kids have to go through me to get new books (I'll be making myself available at the school as often as the teacher deems would be useful and work with her schedule; this is what the district and principal wanted). The idea has been presented of removing the credit card from the account except for when I am actively buying books, so maybe I won't need to register/deregister each Kindle every time we have to update (far more work than just the credit card).

Yes, I am planning on getting covers for the Kindles; it's built into our grant :-)

This is a formal research experiment funded by the American Literacy council over the course of the school year. It is a very *small* project, just one classroom, and the kids are their own controls: half get the kindles in the fall, half in the spring, they take them home and do their at-home reading on them. The hope is that with these devices, the text-to-speech, and dictionary, that the kids will actually want to read more, pick up more vocab, etc. with than without. (This is the hypothesis driving the person at ALC who initiated the grant. We are just hoping for significant results, and I am the grunt labor making it actually happen.) This school had a great experience a couple years ago with iPod nanos with the teacher recording lessons on it; let's hope that from a similar population we get kids who enjoy using these and with that enjoyment comes better reading improvement.

Guess I'll go buy myself a Bento. (I've been meaning to for my own purposes anyway, so won't charge to the grant.)

Thanks again,
Carolyn

07-22-2011, 05:56 PM	#8
CarolynBG Enthusiast Posts: 32 Karma: 21076 Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Colorado Device: Nook, iPad, iPod, mac computer, various eReader apps on iPad and iPod	Pidgeon92, thanks for replying. That's what I feared, I have to set it up myself. OK, so be it. We already were going to keep track of which kid has which device, and already were going to have the kids have to go through me to get new books (I'll be making myself available at the school as often as the teacher deems would be useful and work with her schedule; this is what the district and principal wanted). The idea has been presented of removing the credit card from the account except for when I am actively buying books, so maybe I won't need to register/deregister each Kindle every time we have to update (far more work than just the credit card). Yes, I am planning on getting covers for the Kindles; it's built into our grant :-) This is a formal research experiment funded by the American Literacy council over the course of the school year. It is a very small project, just one classroom, and the kids are their own controls: half get the kindles in the fall, half in the spring, they take them home and do their at-home reading on them. The hope is that with these devices, the text-to-speech, and dictionary, that the kids will actually want to read more, pick up more vocab, etc. with than without. (This is the hypothesis driving the person at ALC who initiated the grant. We are just hoping for significant results, and I am the grunt labor making it actually happen.) This school had a great experience a couple years ago with iPod nanos with the teacher recording lessons on it; let's hope that from a similar population we get kids who enjoy using these and with that enjoyment comes better reading improvement. Guess I'll go buy myself a Bento. (I've been meaning to for my own purposes anyway, so won't charge to the grant.) Thanks again, Carolyn