First, thanks to everyone who has given me feedback on this.
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Originally Posted by chas0039
If it were my project, I teach school at the elementary level, I would inform the parents and get their OK. If anyone objects, get the more expensive model. This should help your cost a bit and I would bet very few parents would want you to waste money if the idea is presented correctly.
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I'd love to do this, but we're hoping to get going pretty early in the school year, which means realistically I need to buy the Kindles as soon as all the permissions from the university fall into place and I get my own procurement card, because there's a bunch of work to be done to get them ready to go. I also don't know if all the parents would understand the situation... as it is I may have to make more than a paper pitch (in both English and Spanish) but an in person pitch as some of the parents (not the children, but the parents) are illiterate -- we have a huge immigrant (yes, some undocumented, which doesn't mean anything in terms of the school district) population here; the school is actually officially bilingual though the classroom I will work with will be English-only in the teaching. I think I'm going to have to count on the principal having a good feeling for what he would accept and what his constituents (the parents) will accept.
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Also, it is no big deal to wipe the ads off the Kindle.
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Huh. hadn't heard that. I haven't gotten to work with one of the newer ones with ads, or even seen one personally.
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Additionally, if they are not registered, it is possible that the ads won't show up. Lastly, as shipped, the Kindle has no ads. They only show up if the Kindle "phones home" with WiFi turned on the first time. If you keep WiFi off, no ads. I realize this could be a problem with third graders.
Keeping it non-registered is a good idea anyway as you probably don't want them buying books on your account. Most kids won't have an interest in the WiFi internet access as they probably have better internet at home.
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Actually, some may have no computers at home at all.
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The main ad that will show up is in the form of a screen saver. The other ad is a small banner at the bottom of the screen, only there when you are not reading a book.
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If we keep them unregistered, then how do we transfer content to them? (Can books be loaded to them if they aren't registered? that seems to be going against the terms of Amazon or the publisher though, because we could inadvertently or even on purpose use more of the licenses at one time than we should.) If this actually would be an option that would work and not contravene our own implied or explicit rules for use of the Kindle, how would I go about it?
Thanks for the input.
Carolyn