1. How are kindles being used in schools? from Melissa Engel-Unruh Librarian, Chambersburg Area Senior High School engelmel@chambersburg.k12.pa.us , used with permission ” I am a high school librarian with 30 Kindles in our collection. All of our Kindles are on the same account, which means that all of our Kindles have access to any ebook purchased. We purchase one ebook and download it to one Kindle and then can share that ebook to 5 other Kindles on the same account for free. The Kindles must all be on the same account in order to share.
You can “share” two ways.
One way is by being logged into your Amazon account on a computer. From the “Digital Content” category, select “Manage Your Kindle.” You will see a section towards the bottom of the page titled “Your Orders.” You will see listed there any ebooks that you have purchased with your account. Off to the right you will see the words “Deliver to…” Click on the drop down arrow and you will see Kindles from your account listed there. Select the Kindle to which you want to share the ebook, and it will be downloaded onto that Kindle in about 60 seconds for free.
OR, on your Kindle itself, hit the HOME button. Locate “Archived Items.” This will list all ebooks attached to your account. From there you can scroll through all of the books attached to your account, and you can select a book for download straight from there. It will be downloaded onto that Kindle in about 60 seconds for free.
2. Free ebook sites (check copyright before use) http://bit.ly/bYhCSF
3. 10 Free Audio Programs to Use for E-Learning – http://bit.ly/cWc9J1
4. Greendex –sustainability index http://www.nationalgeographic.com/greendex/index.html
Urban ecology http://environment.yale.edu/magazine/
Oz coasts http://www.ozcoasts.org.au/
Japan lote http://jguide.stanford.edu/ Thanks to UQ Cyberschool for these
5. 10 New Education Companies http://is.gd/cyW9A
6. Salem Library Blog awards http://salempress.com/Store/blogs/blog_home.htm
7. “The Oil Spill is a Metaphor for Our Times” http://bit.ly/aDUavL
8. “Passionate participation” and “connectedness literacies” http://dmlcentral.net/
9. Popular verse novels – http://bit.ly/cw7VZd
10. Attention http://bit.ly/9rgxV2
11. 6 Baby Steps to Get Started with Evernote http://bit.ly/9lg49w
12. WordPress.com Adds Its Own “Like” and Reblogging Features http://bit.ly/bfRgOZ
13. Fun posters to download & print-primary http://www.ladybird.co.uk/thingstodo/madaboutposters/index.html
14. Doing social good -helping real people http://slav.globalteacher.org.au/2010/06/02/doing-social-good/
15. Sites demonstrating bias http://www.saveourguns.com/ also http://martinlutherking.org/ .
READINGPOWER 
Penny Jones
June 3, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Hi Anne
Thank you for this really useful information – there is so much new technology that this kind of sharing is great! It inspires one to step out and try it!
Josie Walta
July 15, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Hi Anne
We are purchasing some Kindles for our library and I’m wondering if you have an issue with students being able to purchase with the wireless facility. If so, what have you put in placeto prevent that happening?
Thanks
Josie Walta
Head of Library
Alphington Grammar School
Alphington
Victoria
Australia
Anne Weaver
July 15, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Hi,
I am just wondering if anyone has checked if it is legal for school libraries to lend kindles and kindle digital content? I could not find the Australian License Agreement or Terms of Use, but have copied the following sections from the US Amazon site below.
Schools are not usually considered to be “personal non-commercial use” and libraries are in the business of “distribut[ing] to third parties” which it states is not permitted.
Just wondering,
Anne
Use of Digital Content. Upon your payment of the applicable fees set by Amazon, Amazon grants you the non-exclusive right to keep a permanent copy of the applicable Digital Content and to view, use, and display such Digital Content an unlimited number of times, solely on the Device or as authorized by Amazon as part of the Service and solely for your personal, non-commercial use. Digital Content will be deemed licensed to you by Amazon under this Agreement unless otherwise expressly provided by Amazon.
Restrictions. Unless specifically indicated otherwise, you may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense or otherwise assign any rights to the Digital Content or any portion of it to any third party, and you may not remove any proprietary notices or labels on the Digital Content. In addition, you may not, and you will not encourage, assist or authorize any other person to, bypass, modify, defeat or circumvent security features that protect the Digital Content.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200399690