Presentation for Academy librarians 27/4/10

1. Ereading What’s all the fuss about?

2. “The future of reading”“The revolution is here...and it’s digital”The book is dead”

3. Picture by thejbird on Flickr

4. Can ebooks be used in education? Piloted over Christmas last year with mixed yeargroups Set up discussion board on Learning Gateway Students encouraged to add free ebooks to readers Used with groups in January

6. Students reactions “The cool-er reader is a fantastic piece of technology that may put the library in the 21st century in front of the ICT department!” “The ereader is really fun and it’s easy to use” “It’s great fun to be on I had a blast reading from it” “It is really cool” “I have read a Christmas Carol and it was really enjoyable “ “Thank you for choosing me to use this extraordinary technology” “just been about 10 minutes since I've used it but it really does make reading COOL ! Lovin the Grimm Fairy Tales too!”

8. For reading promotion

9. With Post 16 students

10. In the future – textbooks

11. With individual studentsDidn’t work particularly well : With whole class groups

13. Cooler

14. Kindle

15. Iphone/itouch

16. Ipad

18. Bev Humphrey Literacy, School Libraries & Web 2.0 Consultant WWW.bevhumphrey.com Libwithattitude@bevhumphrey.com 07885 451882