Disillusioned with my shipping experiences with Clive Shepherd's book from Lulu, I decided to take the (almost) revolutionary step of ordering Clark Quinn's new book Designing mLearning in ebook format for the kindle reader on my PC. Now I've had ebooks on my computer before, but mostly in the Microsoft .lit format -a holdover from my days as an iPaq user - and those were usually Project Gutenberg editions.
(Side note on Fiction titles: I appreciate that people usually want to make money from their book sales, but I have to say that I really object to the extortionate prices that some people want for audiobooks or even for e-books. At this rate, I'll hold out for paperbacks.)
So within seconds of having my order processed, I had the pages of Clark's shiny (shiny from my screen?) new book gracing my laptop screen. So far, Kindle seems to be doing a reasonably good job of letting me make those 'oh yeah, what about...' notes inside the book. Trying to figure out of I can sync it to the iPod as well, but that may need more exploration.
No review planned because I'm certainly not an expert, but I may provide some reflective commentary once I get through the book.
Really wish I had a tablet... :(
Monday, February 21, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
A wholly unqualified book review (WIP)
It took a while (no thanks to Lulu's dreadful low-cost shipping options), but I finally got my copy of Clive Shepherd's The New Learning Architect. Sadly, it's taken me until now to be able to read more than one page of the damn thing (sick child, workloads, yadda, yadda).
So I'm going to keep this blog entry (started Feb 20) as my own mechanism for reviewing the book and making my own observations and comments along the way. I also learned today, after setting up my new personal Twitter identity, that there's an online "book club" chat happening as of March 7. If I'm lucky, I'll be more than 20 pages through the book by then (although at this rate, I wouldn't put money on it). Mark Britz is acting as the facilitator/guide for the chat and I'm really looking forward to it.
I had some initial thoughts as I forge into the first chapter.
So I'm going to keep this blog entry (started Feb 20) as my own mechanism for reviewing the book and making my own observations and comments along the way. I also learned today, after setting up my new personal Twitter identity, that there's an online "book club" chat happening as of March 7. If I'm lucky, I'll be more than 20 pages through the book by then (although at this rate, I wouldn't put money on it). Mark Britz is acting as the facilitator/guide for the chat and I'm really looking forward to it.
I had some initial thoughts as I forge into the first chapter.
New Tweet Space Done
...well, sort of.
I realized after my last post that I should probably separate my business and personal tweets and other activities. So I've set up a new identity that will point followers here, but it will take me a while to replicate my list of those I follow to the new ID, and I can but hope that a good many business followers will make the trek over to this side of the house.
Also, thanks to my PLN, I learned how to establish Pages/Tabs at the top of the blog. So I can have my lengthier profile attached as a page, rather than chewing up too much real estate on the sidebar.
Still much reading of posts to do for my College learners. My Adult Learning group is a gregarious bunch and the activity has been astounding. My Assessment & Eval learners are quieter, although I suspect the traffic will pick up today and tomorrow.
I realized after my last post that I should probably separate my business and personal tweets and other activities. So I've set up a new identity that will point followers here, but it will take me a while to replicate my list of those I follow to the new ID, and I can but hope that a good many business followers will make the trek over to this side of the house.
Also, thanks to my PLN, I learned how to establish Pages/Tabs at the top of the blog. So I can have my lengthier profile attached as a page, rather than chewing up too much real estate on the sidebar.
Still much reading of posts to do for my College learners. My Adult Learning group is a gregarious bunch and the activity has been astounding. My Assessment & Eval learners are quieter, although I suspect the traffic will pick up today and tomorrow.
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