tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28591415486951697022024-03-24T03:10:13.569-04:00eBook NewsReflections and ideas about the use of eBooks and ebook news reports, especially as it relates to education.
Topics include: EBooks, text, electronic books, e-books, etextbook, electronic textbooks, Kindle, ereaders, ePub, classroom, schoolT. Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.comBlogger153125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-64822426763115504542022-10-31T12:57:00.003-04:002022-10-31T12:57:48.571-04:00Book Searching<p> A friend of mine just reminded me that often we go to Google first to search for something, but all search engines have limitations. Here are some good tools to look for when searching for books:</p><p><br /></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="http://www.refseek.com/?fbclid=IwAR1uQGakhD0DNxLwS4l262QjxqiTdNwJ1pMdzXxnPJdnstSpw7RRHAzoAF4" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">www.refseek.com</a></span> - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedias, monographs, and magazines.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldcat.org%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3CFWfYBAbJYYQ5ppKqYyBPL90IdEnynA_ynRVR1dXah6yf8TXRW8j17fc&h=AT3Zq0bTckrm9VD8colyDe6q50pSYFcKIoQSUC33CBNWGxHlnF3kfkel8L17j7YGeL4HLnkWZDp3rVjPLth8RFy-QQfaspsps-4N9M4rHqAXJzCApPHBb-ApjLcxt2yeFg&__tn__=-UK-y-y-R&c[0]=AT0CmMgcov7wjSa2Y7gD00iqgKSPWv-8kWicyqbuq7LWDBqop-cIbsxq4XutDCd71vMpByaAnTKd9hhvVhSH0KlbnavXtAH7BvaBKkTw4JHqgHQXmzy0EINVkYSbwtgkf8WzNvfB47jM32TsIJCCPj_nukcqpFtJr2Q4odOuCyw18lNz-rU5wtA83ody5u-EuvnAK2vwqN_UgNOy_p3vig" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">www.worldcat.org</a></span> - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. 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Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-78687870189130451942022-09-02T11:59:00.003-04:002022-09-02T11:59:45.641-04:00College Students Still Prefer Print Despite Growing eTextbook Popularity<p> <a data-auth="Verified" data-linkindex="9" href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Frct%3Dj%26sa%3Dt%26url%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.goskagit.com%2Ftownnews%2Fcomputer_science%2Fcollege-students-still-prefer-print-despite-growing-etextbook-popularity%2Farticle_01f055af-7cd2-51af-97a8-c37049c03267.html%26ct%3Dga%26cd%3DCAEYAioUMTQ1OTEzMzE4MzY1NDIxMzU4NjkyGjAzNWJjNjhiMDJjMzFjZmY6Y29tOmVuOlVT%26usg%3DAOvVaw3zPBvC_FWngvw3N-94MAJS&data=05%7C01%7Ctcavanau%40unf.edu%7C1196270b0afa4c35aa6308da8cb123d0%7Cdf29b2fa8929482f9dbb60ff4df224c4%7C1%7C0%7C637976989704251657%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=bXbQ7GQbDcH%2FXAqDl7d3WNffyNVUQYfto6%2B8wYsGlVs%3D&reserved=0" itemprop="url" originalsrc="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.goskagit.com/townnews/computer_science/college-students-still-prefer-print-despite-growing-etextbook-popularity/article_01f055af-7cd2-51af-97a8-c37049c03267.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTQ1OTEzMzE4MzY1NDIxMzU4NjkyGjAzNWJjNjhiMDJjMzFjZmY6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3zPBvC_FWngvw3N-94MAJS" rel="noopener noreferrer" shash="JnN40vVeAdFCCtw+2HMzYhChdIo7G61WDkqCNTSVcXPXw1X3DkhLiKOqHzqwn46Xr1MFR45AT/aw24v2OFMt48jfJVVwn4Yxt3nMjqOqfuPxSe6UcwImqJb10NzpC/EBWPyyCOn9f+dyKmu6JGNE/5HM/rMeKz56yXYD38n+7BQ=" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #427fed; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Original URL: https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.goskagit.com/townnews/computer_science/college-students-still-prefer-print-despite-growing-etextbook-popularity/article_01f055af-7cd2-51af-97a8-c37049c03267.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTQ1OTEzMzE4MzY1NDIxMzU4NjkyGjAzNWJjNjhiMDJjMzFjZmY6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3zPBvC_FWngvw3N-94MAJS. 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Click or tap if you trust this link.">goSkagit</a></span></p><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div itemprop="publisher" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">SEATTLE, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Most college students still prefer print textbooks over</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span><b style="color: #252525; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">eTextbooks</b><span style="color: #252525; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">, though the digital medium is gaining </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> favor. Direct Textbook surveyed more than 1,100 college students and found that:</span></span></div><div itemprop="publisher" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div itemprop="publisher" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div itemprop="publisher" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">54% prefer print textbooks for academic learning</span></span></div><div itemprop="publisher" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">40% prefer eTextbooks</span></span></div><div itemprop="publisher" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">6% have no preference</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span></div><div itemprop="publisher" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div itemprop="publisher" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Still, comparisons to identical surveys conducted in 2021 and 2015 indicate that eTextbooks are gaining popularity – up 11% from 2021 and 13% from 2015 – while print preference has declined by 8% since 2021 and 18% since 2015.</span></div><div itemprop="publisher" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></div><div itemprop="publisher" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></div><div itemprop="publisher" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;"><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Students who prefer print cite these reasons:</strong></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ol style="text-align: left;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Easier to read: 75%</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Difficulty concentrating on eTextbooks: 64%</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">The ability to physically highlight: 68%</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Internet access isn't required: 49%</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">eTextbooks are difficult to navigate and bookmark: 46%</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">eTextbooks make students' eyes hurt: 50%</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">The ability to write on pages: 39%</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">The ability to resell print textbooks: 24%</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">They end up printing eTextbooks anyway: 27%</li></ol><div><span><a name='more'></a></span><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;">When I read about why students prefer print, it makes me concerned about the formats that the books are given to the students. These books should be available in a format that allows students to make book accommodations and more. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;">1. When I have worked with students who are trying to read ebooks on a device like a Kindle I usually find that they haven't changed the font size, and when they do go larger they are much happier and state how much easier the content is to read. So make sure to see if you can't change the text size.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;">2. eText can be harder to concentrate especially on something like a laptop or desktop that gives you announcements all the time. Find out how to turn them off for a period of time and the concentration can be easier.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;">3. All etexts should allow for highlighting and note taking and bookmarking. If your doesn't complain to the publisher and get them to fix that. One thing that I love about my kindle is that when I'm reading I can highlight and take margin notes, and then I can export those highlights/notes and use them elsewhere to make better notes and concept maps.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;">4. I agree that if the internet is required then the book isn't set right.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;">5. see 3</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">6. This can be fixed by reading with an eink device and new color eink devices are now available. This could also be eyestrain, remember to look away minute or so. People get very used to starring at a screen. </span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #282829; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;">20-20-20 Rule</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #282829; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">:</span></div><div><span style="color: #282829; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">1) every 20 minutes,</span></div><div><span style="color: #282829; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">2) take a break for 20 seconds,</span></div><div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div itemprop="publisher" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;"><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: none; color: #282829; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">3) look at something at least 20 feet away (or just close your eyes).</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div itemprop="publisher" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;"><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;">7. see 3</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;">8. true</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;">9. Totally understandable if you are not adjusting the book to your personal needs (font, size, brightness) the ability to read the book without internet, and one that doesn't allow you to highlight/note. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>T. Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-17292947067010378552022-03-21T11:49:00.007-04:002022-03-21T11:49:50.708-04:00Listen Without Guilt: Audiobooks Offer Similar Comprehension As Reading<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.maxpixel.net/static/photo/1x/Headphones-Audiobook-Technology-Multimedia-3658441.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="540" height="303" src="https://www.maxpixel.net/static/photo/1x/Headphones-Audiobook-Technology-Multimedia-3658441.jpg" width="227" /></a></div><br />Here is something that I have been fighting with teachers and librarians for years. Although either is good, together is even better for many students (RWL - Reading While Listening). I've been reading audiobooks for years now. For those who are starting to read audiobooks, don't expect your comprehension/ability to be the same initially as with the printed page. It takes practice, just as printed reading takes. You will also get reading tired after so many minutes, especially with non-fiction, but as you keep listening you will get better and longer at a setting. The other thing that I noticed was I can now not only listen longer, you might also listen faster. I always tell my students that they need to talk slower when making audio recordings for classes, as the normal speaking voice is too fast for many. But since I started using audiobooks I've gradually increased my listening speed and now find the standard speed on many audiobooks (such as those from Audible) to be too slow and so I listen at 1.25x speed. <p></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many educators believe that reading a book is much more effective than listening to one. It’s even one of the core “</span><span color="rgb(17, 85, 204) !important" style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Three Rs</span><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” of education. (You know, even though two of those don’t start with ‘R,’ which might explain quite a bit about 19th-century education.) Listening, while </span><span color="rgb(17, 85, 204) !important" style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">critical to learning</span><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, has yet to be made its own formal classroom subject.</span></p><div class="x_name-100" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span color="inherit" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, </span><a data-auth="Verified" data-linkindex="16" href="https://www.techlearning.com/news/audiobooks-for-students-listening-to-what-the-research-says" originalsrc="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/oRsDCbuSmItUwucofEangUcORXbl" rel="noopener noreferrer" shash="Za5FUUpT5A4OpmqtLvY3cIgPiYrD1PKKDYw1sGPux+mqSnD85yBRlXKUwfjaSshzUM0/tegyT0jHSo9Y097S7HGPI9RA/FkP7wD24wddEFxLRbjZBKHumhm0ER7wgqvvarfgQFcAxnnstcTrkagFCd2VArK80AmYFXiwat2zrDQ=" style="border: 0px; color: #2a5c6d; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Original URL: http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/oRsDCbuSmItUwucofEangUcORXbl. Click or tap if you trust this link."><span color="rgb(17, 85, 204) !important" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">research shows that there’s no difference</span></a><span color="inherit" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> between listening and reading a book, and that audiobooks are just as effective when it comes to comprehension. “Language builds language,” says Virginia Clinton-Lisell, researcher and associate professor at the University of North Dakota. “There are a wealth of studies showing that listening and reading comprehension benefit each other. The better you are at reading, the better you'll be at listening. The better you are at listening, the better you will be at reading.” <a href="https://www.techlearning.com/news/audiobooks-for-students-listening-to-what-the-research-says">https://www.techlearning.com/news/audiobooks-for-students-listening-to-what-the-research-says</a> </span></div><p><span class="x_mobile_wrap" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;"><b>Full Story: </b><a class="x_mobile_wrap" data-auth="Verified" data-linkindex="17" href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fr.smartbrief.com%2Fresp%2FoRsDCbuSmItUwubEfEangUcOmDuY%3Fformat%3Dmultipart&data=04%7C01%7CTCAVANAU%40UNF.EDU%7C00fe8dac141740cc3daa08da0b32c5d4%7Cdf29b2fa8929482f9dbb60ff4df224c4%7C1%7C0%7C637834609948350216%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=wkEaI3xD8mwTuqV0HVie%2FAmwVn3OovvNTulcSFesZW0%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/oRsDCbuSmItUwubEfEangUcOmDuY?format=multipart" rel="noopener noreferrer" shash="VdGsBAq7N0tAEdDgvDlqjsINrbbeCLDgrcm8OBoCoZ/Jh6u5E9KdbTi8fOnZMFrtZ399hlo9yVeBzMYxg2yeRd3UzeAhex0KRfmZLI6LuX/tl0/U0N2nWInzoXEukzoUS1d3rUNoTWSI97faSEsoZeR140W/Cd8hHF9IDAPejcY=" style="border: 0px; color: #2a5c6d; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;" target="_blank" title="Original URL: http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/oRsDCbuSmItUwubEfEangUcOmDuY?format=multipart. Click or tap if you trust this link.">Tech & Learning</a><span color="rgb(153, 153, 153) !important" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (3/21)</span></span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p>T. Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-90479786281759915302022-01-11T17:51:00.002-05:002022-01-11T17:52:59.641-05:00Survey Finds Three-In-Ten Americans Are Avid Readers Of E-Books<p> From the Mental Daily (https://www.mentaldaily.com/article/2022/01/survey-finds-three-in-ten-americans-are-readers-of-e-books) </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.5px;">There are a substantial number of American adults that prefer to read electronic formatted books, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.5px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.5px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">“Americans are spreading their book consumption across several formats,” the authors of a Pew report stated. “The share of adults who have read print books in the past 12 months still outpaces the share using other forms, but 30% now say they have read an e-book in that time frame.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.5px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">The <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/01/06/three-in-ten-americans-now-read-e-books/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #138093; position: relative; text-decoration-color: rgb(19, 128, 147); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">Pew report</a> found that 65 percent of American adults surveyed preferred reading a print book in the past year. The survey was conducted during January and February of 2021.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.5px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ft_2022.01.06_bookreaders_01.png?w=420" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="420" height="470" src="https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ft_2022.01.06_bookreaders_01.png?w=420" width="420" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These kinds of questions always make me wonder why they didn't also ask how many books the people read so that that information could also be included. If you only ask if "they have read an ebook, audiobook, or print book then that is a 0 or 1 option. Yes, I read a book or No, I didn't. But consider the adjusted impact that might have if the reader had read 10 books or 100 books sometime over the past year. If that were so then a digital reader that read 100 books would have a greater impact on reading books that way over a paper reader who only read 1. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you find that digital readers read more books than paper readers that would have a big impact on the print houses and overall sales of books. Also<span style="font-family: inherit;"> a<a class="bs ii" href="https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2016/09/01/book-reading-2016/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.063px;" target="_blank">ccording to the Pew Research Center</a> (2021)<span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">, the average adult American reads 12 books a year, with half of Americans reading 4 or less. </span><span style="color: #292929;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.063px;">The HuffPost/YouGov poll (2014) showed that 25 percent of Americans read between one and five books last year, 15 percent read between six and ten books, 20 percent read between 11 and 50, and<u> eight percent read more than 50</u>. So one of the questions needs to be considered is how many books do these people read, if the average with 12, then someone reading 50 who was a digital reader has about 5 times the impact by comparison. So what is the format that the big readers are reading? </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>T. Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-11097677362008155792022-01-10T10:51:00.006-05:002022-01-10T10:51:37.425-05:00Digital Reading in Schools and the Pandemic<p> <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flnk.ie%2F5KPM9%2Fe%3Dtcavanau%40unf.edu%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.eschoolnews.com%2Fercs%2Fdigital-reading-in-schools-and-how-the-pandemic-has-impacted-it%2F%3Fps%3D999999999-0013000000j19zE-0033000000qiFrm%26tg%3D11%26esmc%3D204536&data=04%7C01%7Ctcavanau%40unf.edu%7C1797af40af69474695da08d9d44ce7ab%7Cdf29b2fa8929482f9dbb60ff4df224c4%7C1%7C0%7C637774250259341124%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=ucGAkT6ir6RoIlya5rFQFzKa2j7YAkKcYt1Tqt4Hl9Y%3D&reserved=0" style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0481c8;">Digital reading in schools, and how
the pandemic has impacted it</span></a></p><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">
Resources exploring the impact of COVID-19 on edtech and how schools are
adapting to ensure every reader has access to the right books – including
getting the most out of government relief funding. (1/10/2022)</span><div><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></div><div><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Here is an excerpt</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> from the report:</span></div><div><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibawo5G1wym4jAkbfT4R5-1Ec0DYQQJvrXQZeVeFZvVaJUfCEBZr97g122u4nepuWvUt7KarbYNSZPTBvrAnpZsdcGbBi-abKguqPPlw1CujpBBDBruMSO6XA4ULJgvc1aKvLqhnrU1Bt7dMYQIVzNHsWDBTqOXB1VJ1BY_lb6M9kriQ4wMsMHaOKE_g=s628" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="458" data-original-width="628" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibawo5G1wym4jAkbfT4R5-1Ec0DYQQJvrXQZeVeFZvVaJUfCEBZr97g122u4nepuWvUt7KarbYNSZPTBvrAnpZsdcGbBi-abKguqPPlw1CujpBBDBruMSO6XA4ULJgvc1aKvLqhnrU1Bt7dMYQIVzNHsWDBTqOXB1VJ1BY_lb6M9kriQ4wMsMHaOKE_g=w640-h466" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span></div>T. Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-75578570884815547252021-12-14T16:00:00.005-05:002021-12-14T16:00:48.406-05:00ebooks in art (timetravel)<p>Sir John Lavery's Miss Auras the red book (circa 1900) reading a Kindle Paperwhite (waterproof)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipczReD8ATl2cCSFhcWXieKl4_BnKiLSef-epn4WMtE18n-cKHjsGA1U8O8IBAcTXEM3EjYwnw5GJt5259IerV7AijpTFk4WQwgnntcDyy3Ia1z1vgr9fKYJTcqLiKZuKbKwm5KYJcckR5JKWIg9oFx8A_o0tReV29_R9xnKXict7jm5HUJqhAfYoxsA=s1600" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1314" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipczReD8ATl2cCSFhcWXieKl4_BnKiLSef-epn4WMtE18n-cKHjsGA1U8O8IBAcTXEM3EjYwnw5GJt5259IerV7AijpTFk4WQwgnntcDyy3Ia1z1vgr9fKYJTcqLiKZuKbKwm5KYJcckR5JKWIg9oFx8A_o0tReV29_R9xnKXict7jm5HUJqhAfYoxsA=w526-h640" width="526" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>T. Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-905728828952406252021-11-09T11:59:00.000-05:002021-11-09T11:59:52.937-05:00 How students benefit from digital books<p> <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fr.smartbrief.com%2Fresp%2FowrKCutJARDreUmXCidWohCicNeOCa%3Fformat%3Dmultipart&data=04%7C01%7Ctcavanau%40unf.edu%7Ce2ffd8e07b1e4bfc9f6f08d9a3986e5f%7Cdf29b2fa8929482f9dbb60ff4df224c4%7C1%7C0%7C637720697509933185%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=4ol8Qx%2F0VZBPafDGJyTz34xbtj2dg77Zom287rMgUTc%3D&reserved=0" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #005e47; font-size: 16pt; text-decoration-line: none;">How students benefit from digital books</span></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Digital books are key resources for students, notes Alexandra
Brown, educational technology specialist for National Heritage Academies. Brown
writes that digital books offer 24/7 availability, greater choice and the
ability for students to create curated collections.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.75pt;"><span class="mobilewrap"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Full Story: </span></b></span><span class="mobilewrap"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fr.smartbrief.com%2Fresp%2FowrKCutJARDreUmXCidWohCicNeOCa%3Fformat%3Dmultipart&data=04%7C01%7Ctcavanau%40unf.edu%7Ce2ffd8e07b1e4bfc9f6f08d9a3986e5f%7Cdf29b2fa8929482f9dbb60ff4df224c4%7C1%7C0%7C637720697509943175%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=%2BHsMzCVnEl3qkmyUn5eyiqTiOF7w76iO%2FJ7qi7YBcXY%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">SmartBrief/Education</span></a></span></span><span class="mobilewrap"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (11/9/21)</span></span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 6.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>T. Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-24006508893946608972021-10-04T14:46:00.000-04:002021-10-04T14:46:49.012-04:00 How digital books connect vulnerable students with reading<p> <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flnk.ie%2F5DDOS%2Fe%3Dtcavanau%40unf.edu%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.eschoolnews.com%2F2021%2F10%2F01%2Fhow-digital-books-connect-vulnerable-students-with-reading%2F%3Fps%3D999999999-0013000000j19zE-0033000000qiFrm%26tg%3D11%26esmc%3D203501&data=04%7C01%7Ctcavanau%40unf.edu%7C50f78c4c88114fff617108d9874bb26f%7Cdf29b2fa8929482f9dbb60ff4df224c4%7C1%7C0%7C637689581476266046%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=w3rqLxL55AMizyYEkn5wLIlh4EJhhlORCd1qdRgL7PA%3D&reserved=0" style="font-size: 13.5pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0481c8;">How digital books connect
vulnerable students with reading</span></a></p><span class="author vcard" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="background-color: white; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.eschoolnews.com/author/contributor/" itemprop="url" rel="author" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #0a0a0a; margin-bottom: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" title="View all posts by Diana Thomas, 7th and 8th Grade Reading Teacher, Cleveland Metropolitan Schools">Diana Thomas, 7th and 8th Grade Reading Teacher, Cleveland Metropolitan Schools</a></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2021-10-01T05:00:00-05:00" itemprop="datePublished" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">October 1, 2021</time><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></span><h3 class="subheader" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Digital books connect all students with reading opportunities--but vulnerable populations, in particular, see huge benefits</h3>T. Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-7550419373075591882021-05-25T14:39:00.007-04:002021-05-25T14:39:35.084-04:00 More screen use among toddlers tied to less book time<p><br /></p><div class="x_name-100" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; display: inline !important; font-family: Helvetica, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />Researchers surveyed over 2,400 mothers and found that children who routinely spent time on electronic devices, such as TVs, smartphones and tablets, were less likely to read print books with their parents at age 3. The findings in Pediatrics also showed that those who read less at age 3 spent even more time on electronic devices at age 5.</div><span class="x_mobile_wrap" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;"><b>Full Story: </b><a class="x_mobile_wrap" data-auth="Verified" data-linkindex="17" href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fr.smartbrief.com%2Fresp%2FnWlmCbuSmIsRlFucfEangUfCNMVN%3Fformat%3Dmultipart&data=04%7C01%7CTCAVANAU%40UNF.EDU%7C669bdfc12b444f386e2008d91fa3a995%7Cdf29b2fa8929482f9dbb60ff4df224c4%7C1%7C0%7C637575610055105297%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=GCj9eJyUK%2BL%2FgExecZbdM2rP2U2Z0IjtXIiwY1V%2BtWk%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/nWlmCbuSmIsRlFucfEangUfCNMVN?format=multipart" rel="noopener noreferrer" shash="pgcip8nTc1dC7sdnjW8fYUmFqJTIjZ89mS86x3+amCnD74qze4yCVUQYAB6k07jr3QDlBnmv1jtj786CcKe0RiDjQizsS20Tl9TK6kKgJWQtfqzpjUdi1DmnHjPHP9tD88AGdFNx/F/ZW8KCx9ZAiSQDBmJvvXCvSEA9mN/CNpE=" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;" target="_blank" title="Original URL: http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/nWlmCbuSmIsRlFucfEangUfCNMVN?format=multipart. 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Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-51200684909560841392021-05-21T15:49:00.002-04:002021-05-21T15:49:32.652-04:00 Student Ebook Reading Surges During the Pandemic<div class="x_name-100" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; display: inline !important; font-family: Helvetica, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Between March 2020 and February 2021, ebook usage at schools increased dramatically. "It's really quite stunning," says Angela Arnold, general manager of OverDrive Education. "We have seen a real paradigm shift in perceptions about digital books. Prior to the pandemic digital books were nice to have and seen as accessories, or digital resources with very specific utility. Where we are today in 2021, I think digital books are more perceived as a necessity."</div><p><span class="x_mobile_wrap" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;"><b>Full Story: </b><a class="x_mobile_wrap" data-auth="Verified" data-linkindex="15" href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fr.smartbrief.com%2Fresp%2FnVzOCbuSmIsRcUngfEangUcOeNVu%3Fformat%3Dmultipart&data=04%7C01%7CTCAVANAU%40UNF.EDU%7C01026944e7484deb341108d91c56a345%7Cdf29b2fa8929482f9dbb60ff4df224c4%7C1%7C0%7C637571980704801213%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=I3%2FX9Z2L%2BbsDxn4bznWA5HUb7B6%2FP3Qi4otDCiuFcfU%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/nVzOCbuSmIsRcUngfEangUcOeNVu?format=multipart" rel="noopener noreferrer" shash="iJ1QoU4kBut8O8hlKpmL+K45Mn1HeojgzaCusZxgyn6SKk3bXj5K2uB6OJneErvNvP1Wm1+T9NnXqlPuBTHKixFgMKdNQFzyUEXSiRgFF1mnQHLyX414JgxQRAQAM8PhiouRA94ZcNtVtZYLw599H+eX/BfqXwt3Wd9UJ4OP+80=" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;" target="_blank" title="Original URL: http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/nVzOCbuSmIsRcUngfEangUcOeNVu?format=multipart. Click or tap if you trust this link.">Tech & Learning</a><span style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (5/21)</span></span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> https://www.techlearning.com/news/student-ebook-reading-surges-during-the-pandemic?utm_source=SmartBrief&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EDAE705D-DA25-4606-A952-76D10DFA2839&utm_content=BB04051B-A969-4448-9306-BB58B5542B90 </span></p>T. Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-10519029418601803532021-05-15T23:07:00.002-04:002021-05-15T23:07:22.183-04:00 FL Teen Book Map of Adolescent Literature<p><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #777777; white-space: pre-wrap;">This map contains highly-rated books (selected by students) with stories set in Florida, use these books to boost interest in reading.</span></p><p><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #777777; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p> FL Teen Book Map of Adolescent Literature
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Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-35232979025691838462021-05-10T12:30:00.003-04:002021-05-10T12:30:57.127-04:00COVID brings more ebook use in schools<p> <a data-auth="Verified" data-linkindex="19" href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flnk.ie%2F51B64%2Fe%3Dtcavanau%40unf.edu%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.eschoolnews.com%2Fresource-library%2Fsurvey-increased-ebook-usage-value-amid-covid-19%2F%3Fps%3Dtcavanau%40unf.edu-0013000000j19zE-0033000000qiFrm%26esmc%3D201412&data=04%7C01%7Ctcavanau%40unf.edu%7C3464a85f21fd4a364b1308d913c951c4%7Cdf29b2fa8929482f9dbb60ff4df224c4%7C1%7C0%7C637562577734429257%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=XKHtLLx5YG4vEmEdS9xHpGr9B3OUNiL4u76lI5RLXi8%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://lnk.ie/51B64/e=tcavanau@unf.edu/https://www.eschoolnews.com/resource-library/survey-increased-ebook-usage-value-amid-covid-19/?ps=tcavanau@unf.edu-0013000000j19zE-0033000000qiFrm&esmc=201412" rel="noopener noreferrer" shash="gwPxZ6Xw2wCqrMw58fle8X5hhPpw9QBn584F2Iq9HpxKuzeFIO+jmbc3X5KMeV+hOHYShV6aevxGQEAz6eYk6fYkT702OLIqU//wz2x9GRm1yVj1c6zKcSIUmdF/k4MxrIeEU4ZCTGe+HahHJVtFQ7Pu/Flu0eUEUdUUXvGFdH4=" style="border: 0px; color: #0481c8; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Original URL: https://lnk.ie/51B64/e=tcavanau@unf.edu/https://www.eschoolnews.com/resource-library/survey-increased-ebook-usage-value-amid-covid-19/?ps=tcavanau@unf.edu-0013000000j19zE-0033000000qiFrm&esmc=201412. Click or tap if you trust this link.">Survey: Increased ebook usage & value amid COVID-19</a></p><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With COVID-19 altering nearly all aspects of daily life, including the way students learn, this survey sought insight from those on the front lines of education, specifically regarding the use and impact of ebooks. As the pandemic has changed the way educators teach, we wanted to understand what adjustments were made, and how ebooks help educators ease the transition between classroom and at-home learning. The survey found that ebooks have become even more essential for learning during the current school year.</span>T. Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-73543571933521834412021-03-24T15:37:00.000-04:002021-03-24T15:37:26.088-04:00Physical or Digital Reading<p> When looking at books and ebooks it is often like comparing apples and oranges and pineapples. Somethings are just too different. Take this study that also used ebooks with lots of bells and whistles. For reading comprehension we just need text, even adding pictures may change the effect. There is a similar issue when they use digital text that you can't go back and look at which makes it very different than a paper test. Then too there is the practice effect. I always wonder in these studies if they would change if they only used children that had extensive digital reading experience. Anytime you give people a new medium that they have to work with it changes the system (try driving with someone new to stick shifting - the driving is the same, that shift makes a huge difference). I'm sure that the data analysis is good, but it is also backward-looking situational. </p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFvrNotzZ6oj3yPXHh7-g-x91cdqv_gMee6YtXrSlu1UBTfeUsjHRgIoJDWXPMCM1TXvsLczYYE1FzpbRcq_iwmlNBuWEdDElYF7jfybw1R4-uLtApUGPl6jcepsW0QG7fOIQKf3SHz7pT//" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="830" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFvrNotzZ6oj3yPXHh7-g-x91cdqv_gMee6YtXrSlu1UBTfeUsjHRgIoJDWXPMCM1TXvsLczYYE1FzpbRcq_iwmlNBuWEdDElYF7jfybw1R4-uLtApUGPl6jcepsW0QG7fOIQKf3SHz7pT/w400-h300/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-auth="Verified" href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fr.smartbrief.com%2Fresp%2FnoaZCbuSmIsLxKbQfEangUfCtuRZ%3Fformat%3Dmultipart&data=04%7C01%7CTCAVANAU%40UNF.EDU%7Cd6ddb38f6d68498e852f08d8eef5cdc5%7Cdf29b2fa8929482f9dbb60ff4df224c4%7C1%7C0%7C637522086899463803%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=vjzuKdkKxHNzz9hxX1oIM5qqY6Po21vQ17eI2sHBq4s%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/noaZCbuSmIsLxKbQfEangUfCtuRZ?format=multipart" rel="noopener noreferrer" shash="WZ4D1yN1pkt4ihSR5CeSJ0TIH+vaKTEq8XzhZGQoM2RuDIEXWxuIFeCFpcIgv2UkaH+VOZ1hrnmF/vtID4RQ3ZkBx3TmsrlRHv5ohEjKm0PNBOSA6gjZYvQ5ZkeHpWrfZaABop3Vt53LiwVtuWor46hH9f7z0Q3NGKXLn6MPcuc=" style="border: 0px; color: #097abf; display: block; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Original URL: http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/noaZCbuSmIsLxKbQfEangUfCtuRZ?format=multipart. Click or tap if you trust this link.">Studies: Physical books aid reading comprehension</a></div><div class="x_name-100" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; display: inline !important; font-family: Helvetica, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Children perform better on reading comprehension tests after reading a paper book -- rather than a digital book -- according to a review by European researchers of 39 studies that took place in the US, UK, Argentina, Canada, Jordan, Israel, the Netherlands and Thailand. Researchers found that e-books with higher numbers of "bells and whistles" unrelated to the story harmed students' reading comprehension.</div><p><span class="x_mobile_wrap" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;"><b>Full Story: </b><a class="x_mobile_wrap" data-auth="Verified" href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fr.smartbrief.com%2Fresp%2FnoaZCbuSmIsLxKbQfEangUfCtuRZ%3Fformat%3Dmultipart&data=04%7C01%7CTCAVANAU%40UNF.EDU%7Cd6ddb38f6d68498e852f08d8eef5cdc5%7Cdf29b2fa8929482f9dbb60ff4df224c4%7C1%7C0%7C637522086899473797%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=BVLEpk0V%2FHY8d4R9Rci7JUTxL8tqGYudEkV%2B5ESheas%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/noaZCbuSmIsLxKbQfEangUfCtuRZ?format=multipart" rel="noopener noreferrer" shash="OB/kVvmPmgf6qMYwOWPd8brz8v+iKa8AW84nIB3cseE1971LaddSZVCAvEXLLklAxANbrfKod2drWUy6Cm5MNd4NHHm9ps6AK9HnxFCDAvd+UG3cA7snxQO3fxOC/CWVNnPFTbd0D68rTkc6SpeYrc/hreH18JUczotqmUKc52U=" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;" target="_blank" title="Original URL: http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/noaZCbuSmIsLxKbQfEangUfCtuRZ?format=multipart. Click or tap if you trust this link.">The Hechinger Report</a><span style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (3/22)</span></span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p>T. Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-41231162058302882882020-11-05T14:21:00.001-05:002020-11-05T14:21:40.152-05:00Fluency Support - teleprompt.me<p> Good reading is always more than just putting the letters together to make words. You need to read for comprehension, fluency, learning, association, and more. One strategy that helps new or struggling readers is Reading While Listening, that is where the reader silently reads while someone else reads aloud. The research available consistently demonstrates its favorable contribution to improving reading fluency. Since improving fluency is an instructional goal of elementary schools, we should always be on the lookout for tools that can assist in improving reading fluency. Children who are reluctant to read or who have low rates of fluency can benefit from hearing a text read aloud while they follow in a print version. When they are able to hear the words and phrases, they increase their speed and prosody (intonation) appropriate to the material being read, and are able to identify more words. In this case, though, I not thinking of reading silently. Fluency is defined as the ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression. To accurately understand what they read, children must be able to read fluently whether they are reading aloud or silently. When reading aloud, fluent readers read in phrases and add intonation appropriately. But getting kids to read aloud can be an issue, especially when they have reading issues. One problem with this is that some students read badly and slowly and thus they set a poor example for the others or may become ridiculed by others. There are some great strategies though, I've always loved the Read to your Pet (or stuffed animal) one, and letting the reader pick the book is another good one. Here though is a free tool you can have them use by themselves. The tool I am considering is a teleprompter, which is something that adults who are on TV or give speeches use all the time. The website teleprompt.me provides a free service where you can paste in the text and the software will show it in a large format, not only that, the software will listen for when the words shown are spoken and advance only after it hears the words by darkening the words done.</p><p>. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcuawnK0ZP9580RE42EllTiMkTf3wJNF89rpoZ-V6x21wpZe5oZX8lv3mMkS-5wu68ENjJAER3g6FPiCwBxG4F_UQZ8R9H2m7MOpzFjIHsrbZrSrtZMbqmK_ZluYizTE_h9pWfGc9AlGpY/s1102/TelepromptMe.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="1045" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcuawnK0ZP9580RE42EllTiMkTf3wJNF89rpoZ-V6x21wpZe5oZX8lv3mMkS-5wu68ENjJAER3g6FPiCwBxG4F_UQZ8R9H2m7MOpzFjIHsrbZrSrtZMbqmK_ZluYizTE_h9pWfGc9AlGpY/s320/TelepromptMe.PNG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For this to work, all you will need is your computer with an internet connection, a microphone (if the computer has one built in that is fine), and some text to read. You don't need all the specialized gear that is used for professional speeches. When you go to the site, your computer should ask if it is ok to use your computer's microphone. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Go to the site: <a href="https://teleprompt.me/">https://teleprompt.me/</a> and you will find the tools you need at the top of the screen. Don't forget to give it an OK to use your microphone. There are options for four colors of text you can use with the black background. Try the yellow, after all the brain sees the difference between black and yellow as greater than between black and white - which can be helpful for many readers. You have four large font sizes you can use. There are three buttons, the Restart is the only one you should need. And there is a blank box that you can paste the text to be read into. You can get some good text from library sites like Project Gutenburg, or you could just type some of your own. If you want to reader to focus on just one sentence at a time you can add extra returns after each sentence. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Once the text has been added to the little box in the corner then it will appear on the screen and the reading aloud can begin. As the student says the words they get instant feedback on their progress, if they are too far off in their pronunciation then the system will not recognize that the word was spoken. And if they stop to ask you a question or go and get a drink the software will wait, holding their place. It isn't perfect but it could be a good tool to try for someone who needs some more practice reading aloud. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The software is actually designed for people to use as a teleprompter tool such as for when making a YouTube video. In school, this could be a great thing to start using for the morning announcements that students usually read off of a paper. </div><br /><p></p>T. Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-4432784405577534452020-11-03T20:10:00.000-05:002020-11-03T20:10:01.218-05:00Textbooks - eTextbooks<p> Was just talking to a friend in China about how her classes were working out during COVID-19. One issue that she said that she was having dealt with the students' textbooks. When they were sent home before the next semester they didn't have their textbooks for their new classes, and what with Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) there, all her students were online. The problem was that package delivery had been paused. Very different from here where Amazon broke sales records, and I saw their prime trucks everyday. To help her students she uploaded ebooks into their distance learning environment in order to help her students get their textbooks and keep up with the course instruction. </p><p>So if you are teaching ERT you might want to consider adding some public domain texts or ones that have been released under the Creative Commons license and get some books to your students. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="This book is to support concrete teaching as it involves and applies facts and descriptions about tangible objects and actions that can be found in Florida, ones that they have likely seen, or applies to them and their surroundings." imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="book cover to Florida Science" border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="116" src="https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/secondary_resources/1000/thumbnail.jpg" /></a></div>I have three that you are welcome to use. I wrote a textbook titled <a href="https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/secondary_resources/1/">Florida Science: The Science that makes Florida Different</a>, this book is about science in Florida, it focuses on the concrete science that students can see here. When teaching science or any subject it’s important to remember to begin with the concrete and then move to the abstract. I have found that it has helped my students when I begin by teaching science concepts in a concrete manner and expand from there. I was a science teacher in Middle and High School for a long time and except for Hurricanes, Florida was hardly mentioned. So this book turns that around to just Flordia Stuff. This book is to support concrete teaching as it involves and applies facts and descriptions about tangible objects and actions that can be found in Florida, ones that they have likely seen, or applies to them and their surroundings.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/elementary_resources/1/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="book cover to the secret garden" border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="100" height="320" src="https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/elementary_resources/1000/thumbnail.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><br />The other two are kind of "textbooks", they are for students and teachers to use this text to assist students needing extra guidance with their purposeful reading strategies or just as an instructional or practice resource. The first book, <a href="https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/elementary_resources/1/">The Secret Garden: Annotated with Reading Strategies </a> for upper elementary and middle school readers contains an adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic "The Secret Garden" but has been enhanced with over 125 reading strategy experiences. <p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2MXG-LDQ00673Ac2HHlb73Sfon-wPJF9Cdysi0fFiOFpTH_wq99HpxqyuRB1Q_bsksz0T40Zr4FdMryCSl2U0-XImrTEyn7e0Vrft_RKOCsFWgN1BkjPe_L9u_WRSNBYRnSIJx6onSqJg/s619/hound.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="392" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2MXG-LDQ00673Ac2HHlb73Sfon-wPJF9Cdysi0fFiOFpTH_wq99HpxqyuRB1Q_bsksz0T40Zr4FdMryCSl2U0-XImrTEyn7e0Vrft_RKOCsFWgN1BkjPe_L9u_WRSNBYRnSIJx6onSqJg/w127-h200/hound.PNG" width="127" /></a>The second book, <a href="https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/secondary_resources/2/">The Hound of the Baskervilles: Annotated with Reading Strategies</a>, is for Middle and High School (and even College) students and contains an adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyles' classic book with over 100 reading strategy experiences embedded throughout the text. Both books guide readers with BEFORE, DURING, and AFTER reading strategies that students can practice with and help students Read with Purpose. Each chapter has multiple strategies embedded in the chapter to assist readers to read with purpose and become an active reader. Additional resources such as links to free audio versions and online tools are also provided along with suggestions on how to use your electronic book reader to improve your reading experience and access to information. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">So go read a book, and enjoy it. </div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtlZa3bgh-m06_V7MGBlaFckWcOunjIxK-qVs0PSoLzY6_ZrZHJStvguslxl2xI6v1YFwBNZj4rD1XZJfaeH5RCNNO6ROQPJylr-GFGePMH4DAmv0GAPqGVA48zxnd1g6bj2Gd5euiBiUo/s833/2013-12-16+19.58.50.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="833" data-original-width="625" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtlZa3bgh-m06_V7MGBlaFckWcOunjIxK-qVs0PSoLzY6_ZrZHJStvguslxl2xI6v1YFwBNZj4rD1XZJfaeH5RCNNO6ROQPJylr-GFGePMH4DAmv0GAPqGVA48zxnd1g6bj2Gd5euiBiUo/s320/2013-12-16+19.58.50.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>T. Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-13476772348840545012020-09-20T11:19:00.003-04:002020-09-20T11:19:30.396-04:00Ebooks in the Age of COVID-19<p> Perhaps there is only so much TV a person can stand or perhaps it is the restrictions that some put on themselves against going to stores for anything other than groceries, or perhaps some people know how printed books have been <a href="http://drscavanaugh-ebooknews.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-ebook-and-sickroom.html">shown to be disease carriers</a> (<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/06/26/heres-how-long-coronavirus-can-live-surfaces-and-air/3256678001/">COVID can be found up to three days in printed books</a>), or maybe it is a mix, either way, libraries have seen a growth in ebook use. </p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrw9_gh5xKbPhMV6ZCzJ_yao45G8GVhFG0_hGfGOu4okZuAXAawV_tXB8emMsaa5JVuhYvFjwRXR08gqptEp8OSVl6LzP6pp4EdY4VLeHE-xOtgFiohT3wb0NLvLPWhyRNIVKxYzOD4kWX//" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="740" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrw9_gh5xKbPhMV6ZCzJ_yao45G8GVhFG0_hGfGOu4okZuAXAawV_tXB8emMsaa5JVuhYvFjwRXR08gqptEp8OSVl6LzP6pp4EdY4VLeHE-xOtgFiohT3wb0NLvLPWhyRNIVKxYzOD4kWX/w474-h369/image.png" width="474" /></a></div><br />The Northbrook library in Illinois published that they saw dramatic growth in their digital checkout, with a 308% increase in ebook checkouts and a 165% increase in digital audiobook downloads, compared to the same month in 2019. The District of Columba Public Libraries saw a similar impact, with an increase in digital checkouts that was 37% higher as compared to the same month last year. In Ireland, the latest data on book patronage has shown that during the pandemic downloads of ebooks downloads have increased to 529,416 over the last nine months (2020), while the total for last year (2019) was only 345,877. According to OverDrive ebook lending across the USA has increased by nearly 50 percent since March 9.<p></p><p>Who is doing the digital reading?</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>children's e-books have more than doubled</li><li>young adult fiction has increased by more than 50%</li><li>adult fiction has increased by more than 30%</li></ul><p></p><p>A reader gotta read, and a book is a book, is a book. So print or digital enjoy the book and enjoy the read, but don't forget to wash your hands, keep social distancing, and wear a mask.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/06/16/877651001/libraries-are-dealing-with-new-demand-for-books-and-services-during-the-pandemic">https://www.npr.org/2020/06/16/877651001/libraries-are-dealing-with-new-demand-for-books-and-services-during-the-pandemic</a></p><p><a href="https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=library-ebooks-streaming-video-audiobooks-grow-as-public-libraries-close-branches-covid-19">https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=library-ebooks-streaming-video-audiobooks-grow-as-public-libraries-close-branches-covid-19</a></p><p><a href="https://www.northbrook.info/keep-in-touch/news/impact-digital-materials-library-usage-during-covid-19-pandemic">https://www.northbrook.info/keep-in-touch/news/impact-digital-materials-library-usage-during-covid-19-pandemic</a></p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/ireland/shhh-downloads-prove-a-big-noise-for-ireland-s-libraries-in-lockdown-mb8p6z6xm">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/ireland/shhh-downloads-prove-a-big-noise-for-ireland-s-libraries-in-lockdown-mb8p6z6xm</a></p><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/06/26/heres-how-long-coronavirus-can-live-surfaces-and-air/3256678001/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/06/26/heres-how-long-coronavirus-can-live-surfaces-and-air/3256678001/</a><br /><p><br /></p>T. Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-56102750572575508632020-07-28T18:26:00.000-04:002020-07-28T18:26:55.498-04:00Some Science Reading<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiynr-HO-wuT4Ei56X-WAcNkSX19Wf9o3eGVeSZk6QrERoqOmyYgFaOCiahCNEcOPrldwkngPR704gaoQBpoAdxBDBKiE22U30SxaLsjoXr6cdtPTHGgmfNzajXp6vkOVC8KSdRxw06Q9i8/s1600/2014-12-23+15.42.58.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="museum of science" border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="960" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiynr-HO-wuT4Ei56X-WAcNkSX19Wf9o3eGVeSZk6QrERoqOmyYgFaOCiahCNEcOPrldwkngPR704gaoQBpoAdxBDBKiE22U30SxaLsjoXr6cdtPTHGgmfNzajXp6vkOVC8KSdRxw06Q9i8/w300-h500/2014-12-23+15.42.58.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Ok, this is a bit off-topic, but I was just presenting about ebook accommodations at a science teacher convention and they wanted to know about some good "science books" that would work well for the classroom collection. I'm a strong believer of having classroom collections (real or virtual). There are lots of great books out there that people just don't realize. Too many people think of science books and then immediately go to the science textbook or some kind of field book (although those are great to have in the classroom too. If you are building a classroom collection for your high or middle school science classroom make sure to include a variety of books, not just non-fiction, but also picture books (think coffee table books), and fiction (that would include science fiction too). So here are some non-fiction books that I think are great to have in a collection. <div><br /></div><div><div>Some great books on science that are not textbooks:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The Science of Sci-Fi: From Warp Speed to Interstellar Travel (MacDonald)</li><li>Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World (Miodownik)</li><li>Caffeine: How caffeine created the modern wold (Pollan)</li><li>Physics of Everyday Things: The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day (Kakalios)</li><li>The Ghost Map: The story of London's most terrifying epidemic and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world (Johnson)</li><li>Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Blum)</li><li>The Poison Squad: One chemist's single-minded crusade for food safety at the turn of the twentieth century (Blum)</li><li>Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Kean)</li><li>Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Moalem)</li><li><div>Future Magic and Indistinguishable from Magic (Robert L Forward)</div></li></ul></div><div><i>Really interesting (and often funny) books are the works of Mary Roach:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkrZefpSKD4GNcizWIGc3fedzWbEH0BDlRDFFZiqkvYiYFOK89x1EP7QgqCpyj4STPzDizcZ-PArrSE4shrk-xBPTgmQfVzfwSg21_2aooVv4sVMh9YN2cZjmr9FsbQUYzzRdg5K5GOelD/s2048/2014-06-03+22.12.13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkrZefpSKD4GNcizWIGc3fedzWbEH0BDlRDFFZiqkvYiYFOK89x1EP7QgqCpyj4STPzDizcZ-PArrSE4shrk-xBPTgmQfVzfwSg21_2aooVv4sVMh9YN2cZjmr9FsbQUYzzRdg5K5GOelD/s320/2014-06-03+22.12.13.jpg" /></a></div></i></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers</li><li>Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void</li><li>Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife</li><li>Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal</li><li>Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (not about fighting, but about how the mil is working to save lives)</li></ul></div><div>Some good books on Math:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Haddon) - yes this is fiction but has some great math in it.</li><li>The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs, and the search for the Ultimate Equation (Fry)</li><li>The Improbability Principle: Why coincidences, miracles, and rare events happen every day (Hand)</li></ul><div>Science Fiction (for the most part) books for good science reading</div></div></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Steve Alten </li><ul><li>MEG <i>oceanography, sharks </i></li><li>The Loch<i> geology, oceanography </i></li></ul><li>Isaac Asimov: </li><ul><li>Asimov's Mysteries <i>short stories, various science topics </i></li><li>Caves of Steel <i>mystery, robotics </i></li><li>A Whiff of Death <i>mystery, chemistry </i></li></ul><li>Gregory Benford: </li><ul><li>The Jupiter Project <i>Jupiter </i></li><li>Against Infinity </li></ul><li>Ben Bova </li><ul><li>Prometheans <i>genetics </i></li><li> Mars <i>Mars conditions</i> </li><li>Moonrise <i>Moon conditions </i></li></ul><li>Lois McMaster Bujold: </li><ul><li>Falling Free <i> gravity, genetics </i></li></ul><li>Grant Callin: </li><ul><li>Saturn Alia <i>Saturn</i> </li></ul><li>Arthur C. Clarke: </li><ul><li>The Deep Range <i>whales, ecology </i></li><li>A Fall of Moondust <i> moon conditions, rescue </i></li><li>The Nine Billion Names of God <i>short stories, various topics </i> </li><li>Fountains of Paradise <i> orbits, space elevator </i></li><li>Wind from the Sun <i> solar wind </i></li><li>Islands in the Sky <i>space habitats</i> </li></ul><li>Hal Clement: </li><ul><li>Mission of Gravity <i>effects of high gravity </i></li></ul><li>Michael Crichton </li><ul><li>Jurassic Park <i> genetics, dinosaurs</i> </li><li>Prey<i> nanotechnology </i></li><li>Micro <i>nanoscale differences</i></li></ul><li>Clive Cussler </li><ul><li>Pacific Vortex <i>oceans, currents volcanism (any of the NUMA series) </i></li></ul><li>Lester Del Rey: </li><ul><li>Rocket Jockey <i>orbital dynamics </i></li></ul><li>Daniel da Cruz: </li><ul><li>Texas on the Rocks <i>ice/water conservation </i></li></ul><li>Jack DuBrul </li><ul><li>Havoc<i> geology, radiation</i> </li><li>River of Ruin <i>geology, archeology </i></li></ul><li>Pat Frank: </li><ul><li>Alas, Babylon <i> FL, nuclear war </i></li></ul><li>Joe Haldeman: </li><ul><li>The Forever War <i>Einstein time dilatation effects </i> </li><li>There is no Darkness<i> school, long term gravity effects, genetics</i> </li><li>Worlds <i>space habitats</i> </li></ul><li>Robert A. Heinlein: </li><ul><li>The Man Who Sold the Moon <i>space, legal, moon </i> </li><li>Time for the Stars <i>time dilatation, twins </i></li><li>The Moon is a Harsh Mistress<i> self-aware machines, moon conditions, gravity, dynamics</i> </li><li>Space Cadet <i>space training, rockets, orbits </i></li><li>Rocket Ship Galileo <i> nuclear rockets, moon </i></li></ul><li>Frank Herbert: </li><ul><li>Dune <i> ecology, water, religions </i></li></ul><li>Eric Kotani & John Maddox Roberts: </li><ul><li>Between the Stars <i> space habitats, asteroids </i></li></ul><li>Murray Linster </li><ul><li>The Forgotten Planet <i>insects</i> </li></ul><li>Rob MacGregor: </li><ul><li>The Crystal Skull <i> South/Central Amer. cultures </i></li></ul><li>Anne McCaffrey: </li><ul><li>Dragonsdawn <i>genetics, chemistry </i></li></ul><li>Michael McCollum: </li><ul><li>Antares Dawn <i>star structures, star formations </i> </li><li>Thunder Strike <i>asteroids, comets </i></li><li>The Clouds of Saturn <i> Saturn, density dynamics </i></li></ul><li>Walter Miller: </li><ul><li>Canticle for Leibowitz<i> post-nuclear war </i></li></ul><li>Larry Niven: </li><ul><li>Ringworld <i>space habitats, engineering </i></li><li>The Integral Trees <i> free fall habitats, biology </i> </li><li>The Smoke Ring <i>free fall habitats, biology </i></li></ul><li>Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle: </li><ul><li>Lucifer's Hammer <i> asteroid/meteor strikes on the Earth </i></li></ul><li>Jody Lynn Nye </li><ul><li>Taylor’s Ark <i>medicine, disease</i> </li><li>Medicine Show <i>medicine, disease </i></li></ul><li>Nick O’Donohoe </li><ul><li>The Magic and the Healing <i> veterinary science </i></li></ul><li>Douglas Preston </li><ul><li>Tyrannosaur Canyon <i>Earth history, viruses, genetics, geology </i></li></ul><li>Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child </li><ul><li>the Ice Limit<i> construction physics, meteorites, seeding theory </i></li></ul><li>Ridley Scott</li><ul><li>The Martian</li></ul><li>Charles Sheffield: </li><ul><li>The McAndrew Chronicles <i>genetics </i></li><li>Higher Education <i>physics, space construction </i></li></ul><li>Dana Stabenow: </li><ul><li>Second Star <i>space habitats </i></li></ul><li>Allen Steele: </li><ul><li>Orbital Decay <i> space habitat construction </i></li><li>Labyrinth of Night <i> Mars </i></li><li>Clarke County, Space <i>space habitats </i></li></ul><li>Neal Stephenson: </li><ul><li>Zodiac <i>environment, pollution, oceans </i></li></ul><li>Bruce Sterling </li><ul><li>Heavy Weather <i>weather, atmosphere </i></li></ul><li>John Varley </li><ul><li>Red Thunder <i>rocket physics, Mars </i></li><li>Mammoth <i>Earth history, genetics </i></li></ul><li>Wynne Whiteford: </li><ul><li>Thor's Hammer <i>asteroid strike on the Earth</i></li></ul></ul></div>T. Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-38617447173377175222020-04-24T11:54:00.000-04:002020-04-24T11:54:56.739-04:00SYNC summer 2020 Audio ReadingsAudioFile has just opened the SYNC: Audiobooks for Teens 2020 Summer season. Starting the week of April 30th, teens (and others) can download two titles that are paired each week for the next 14 weeks (till August). Each of the pairs will be available for free during their week. Readers can download the books using the Overdrive app, and once you have downloaded them they are yours for free. So if you know a teen introduce him or her to some new titles or format or allow yourself to try some young adult books. SYNC is available through Sora, the student reading app from OverDrive.<br />
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<br />T. Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-25941836386384319452020-01-13T11:31:00.000-05:002020-01-13T11:31:06.714-05:00YouTube read alouds<br />
Here is a principal doing a great activity with his students each week. Using video technology to read to students, allowing him to reach more students than just going to one room.<br />
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Watch this week's book at: <a href="https://sites.google.com/lpssonline.com/jwj/home">https://sites.google.com/lpssonline.com/jwj/home</a><br />
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<br />T. Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-92194078123486111132019-11-03T19:50:00.001-05:002019-11-03T19:50:40.990-05:00Travel Reading<br />
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<img align="left" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvSfms4Kzs2-oCGDH02pVGBjwVVxIT53q2qxf7UHBTI81yDXbGzpxmZlfHrCZDvIwr8M4ZcE4jsWotDRs7CKUy24pmcjUi7OWxveMimt7TVx-4m9dEFY18IsDBLgqABcuFf0xfhzZ1MEWN/w670-h893-no/" width="150" />I love to read (print, digital, and audio), and if you always have a book with you, then you can find some time to read. I'm also a strong believer in anchoring while reading. I can remember listening to Chopin A La Moog when I was a teen while reading Journey to the Center of the Earth and Ira Leven's This Perfect Day, and sill today when I hear music from that album I remember those books. I also think that that kind of anchoring can be done with where you are reading. Of course, not your favorite reading place at home where you normally read, but when you are traveling. I am lucky that I can travel for work, I am a teacher and Fulbright Specialist, and my work has taken me so many interesting places. When I was younger one of the problems I had while traveling was brining enough books to read, since depending on where you go you might not be able to get more books. This wasn't a problem while traveling in my home country, but you might not be surprised that it is a bit hard to find interesting science fiction in English when you are in China teaching at a university in Xi'an. That issue is one of the reasons I love my ebook reader. I can bring lots of books so I can have choices of what I want to read next (and an added bonus is changing the size of the text - depending on how I am traveling - shaking trains and busses need a larger text size). You might think, "you should look out the window, not read" and it is important to look out the window and see the sites. Of course, that would imply that there was a window to be able to see out of. Once when I was teaching in China I took a bus to and a train from the Great Wall of China, both ways I had to stand all the way there and back and couldn't really see out a window.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Actually taking a needed break while walking on the Great Wall with Parley by Jamie McFarlane.</td></tr>
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The other great thing about a pocket-sized eink device is how easy it is to take with you, then not only can you look around, write in your journal or sketch, you can also take a break and read.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taking a break to read while biking Red Rock Canyon, NV - reading the Wrecking Crew by Taylor Zajonc</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Climbing up to the Buddha in Hong Kong (lots of steps) and taking a reading break with Less Doing, More Living by Ari Meisel.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walking through Seoul Korea's palace grounds and taking a break to read The Gathering Edge by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller. </td></tr>
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Depending on how I feel, sometimes I take books that have ties to the places I am going, Great fun to read Harry Potter in Scotland and later walk by the place it was written. They are also great when waiting in train stations or airports too.<br />
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T. Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-50285163752082793042019-09-13T12:55:00.001-04:002019-09-13T12:55:49.082-04:00Large PrintLarge print books have been found to be really helpful in so many ways. Below are some of the results of a study about large print. A problem with large print books (on paper) is that there are so few printed, many of the publishers still think of them for "older" readers. One solution for this though is if you or your school have ereaders to read the books you want, then use the settings or font functions of the ereader to change to a larger print. Please take the time to change from the default that you got with your ebook reader and try some different font, it can make an amazing difference with your reading.<br />
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Researchers have found a correlation between large print books and assessment results.<br />
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc !important; margin: 0px 0px 8px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">61% of elementary school students said they remembered characters and plots better when reading large print books.</li>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc !important; margin: 0px 0px 8px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Middle school students reported a 43% reduction in feelings of anxiety about reading when using the large print format.</li>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc !important; margin: 0px 0px 8px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">67% of teachers noted that large print text reduced stress and anxiety in students reading below grade level and at grade level.</li>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc !important; margin: 0px 0px 8px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">80% teachers said large print would benefit their students who have trouble tracking when reading or lack self-confidence in their reading abilities.</li>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc !important; margin: 0px 0px 8px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">95% of teachers said they're likely to use large print in the upcoming school year with their students.</li>
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Just finished reading an interesting study that was a meta-analysis of digital versus paper reading. The research done by Virginia Clinton (<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9817.12269">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9817.12269</a>) concluded with:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1d1e; font-family: "Open Sans", icomoon, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The study is well done and I wouldn't have any issues with her conclusions. Her study looked at </span><span style="color: #1c1d1e; font-family: Open Sans, icomoon, sans-serif;">33 high-quality studies that tested students’ comprehension after they were randomly assigned to read on a screen or on paper. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1d1e; font-family: "Open Sans", icomoon, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">According to the study, t</span><span style="color: #1c1d1e; font-family: Open Sans, icomoon, sans-serif;">he benefit for reading on paper was rather small, with 29 of the 33 laboratory studies found that readers learned more from text on paper. The study also identifies that the reading genre also makes a difference, the studies that had students read narrative fiction, found there was no benefit to paper over screens.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1c1d1e; font-family: Open Sans, icomoon, sans-serif;">She also points out some of the issues of such studies. Such as how age is an important factor. Because adults have had more experience with reading (and for them, much of it would have been limited to paper). Today though, it has become more common for elementary school students to read from screens. So it is likely that readers who are children today may be more accustomed to reading from screens and readers who are adults likely learned how to read from paper. This makes me wonder how much of this is an experience effect. Also with that experience would be the devices. Other than her mentioning them being on screens and being studies after 2008, there was no differentiation of the analysis that I could find about the different kinds of screens, especially important for light-emitting versus the modern eink devices, like a Kindle. Additionally, she was using studies that didn't have participants with disabilities, including visual impairments, which is quite reasonable to avoid possible confounds related to disabilities.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1c1d1e; font-family: Open Sans, icomoon, sans-serif;">I'm not surprised to find that there is some difference, or that it may be more for print - printed paper is a great technology with a long history. The study is a good one. But the issue that could develop are such a comparison of something that do one thing versus a variety of things. Consider, if you had to compare a rowboat and a powerboat, but you could only compare them by rowing. I've seen amazing changes in the reading experience by some of my students just by a minor increase in font size. Although, for those reading from lighted screens you have to worry also about the light effect and the distractions of other apps that might be one. Everything has advantages and disadvantages. We also need studies not to just combine all devices into one category, reading from a computer (screen just ahead), would be different from a tablet (down at an angle like a book), as could be the led screen versus the eink. More studies such as this one are needed. </span><br />
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SUMMER 2019 SYNC TITLE PAIRINGS</div>
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Week 1: April 25 – May 2<br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/swing" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">SWING by Kwame Alexander, with Mary Rand Hess, narrated by Kwame Alexander (Blink)</a><br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/blink-and-caution" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">BLINK & CAUTION by Tim Wynne-Jones, narrated by MacLeod Andrews (Candlewick on Brilliance Audio)</a></div>
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Week 2: May 2 – May 9<br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/othello" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">OTHELLO by William Shakespeare, narrated by Ewan McGregor, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kelly Reilly, Tom Hiddleston, and a full cast (Naxos AudioBooks)</a><br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/you" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">YOU by Charles Benoit, narrated by David Baker (Full Cast Audio)</a></div>
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Week 3: May 9 – May 16<br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/the-epic-crush-of-genie-lo" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">THE EPIC CRUSH OF GENIE LO by F.C. Yee, narrated by Nancy Wu (Recorded Books)</a><br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/shadow-of-the-fox" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">SHADOW OF THE FOX by Julie Kagawa, narrated by Joy Osmanski, Brian Nishii, Emily Woo Zeller (HarperAudio)</a></div>
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Week 4: May 16 – May 23<br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/spill" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">SPILL by Leigh Fondakowski, performed by Elisa Bocanegra, Nicholas Hormann, James Morrison, Darren Richardson, and a full cast (L.A. Theatre Works)</a><br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/meet-the-sky" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">MEET THE SKY by McCall Hoyle, narrated by Morgan Fairbanks (Blink)</a></div>
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Week 5: May 23 – May 30<br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/a-night-divided" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">A NIGHT DIVIDED by Jennifer A. Nielsen, narrated by Kate Simses (Scholastic Audiobooks)</a><br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/tear-down-this-wall" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">TEAR DOWN THIS WALL: A CITY, A PRESIDENT, AND THE SPEECH THAT ENDED THE COLD WAR by Romesh Ratnesar, narrated by Wes Bleed (Oasis Audio)</a></div>
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Week 6: May 30 – June 6<br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/the-first-time-she-drowned" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">THE FIRST TIME SHE DROWNED by Kerry Kletter, narrated by Jorjeana Marie (Penguin Random House Audio/Listening Library)</a><br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/wild-bird" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">WILD BIRD by Wendelin Van Draanen, narrated by Alex McKenna (Penguin Random House Audio/Listening Library)</a></div>
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Week 7: June 6 – June 13<br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/a-girl-like-that" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">A GIRL LIKE THAT by Tanaz Bhathena, narrated by Firdous Bamji, Neil Shah, Soneela Nankani, Lameece Issaq (Recorded Books)</a><br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/an-enemy-of-the-people" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE by Henrik Ibsen, Adapted by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, performed by Richard Kind, Rosalind Ayres, Gregory Harrison, Josh Stamberg, and a full cast (L.A. Theatre Works)</a></div>
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Week 8: June 13 – June 20<br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/the-golden-day" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">THE GOLDEN DAY by Ursula Dubosarsky, narrated by Kate Rudd (Candlewick on Brilliance Audio)</a><br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/gulp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">GULP by Mary Roach, narrated by Emily Woo Zeller (Tantor Audio)</a></div>
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Week 9: June 20 – June 27<br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/astray" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">ASTRAY by Emma Donoghue, narrated by Khristine Hvam, James Langton, Robert Petkoff, Suzanne Toren, Dion Graham (Hachette Audio)</a><br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/olivia-twist" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">OLIVIA TWIST by Lorie Langdon, narrated by Pearl Hewitt (Black Hills Audiobooks)</a></div>
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Week 10: June 27 – July 4<br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/yaqui-delgado-wants-to-kick-your-ass" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">YAQUI DELGADO WANTS TO KICK YOUR ASS by Meg Medina, narrated by Roxanne Hernandez (Candlewick on Brilliance Audio)</a><br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/heretics-anonymous" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">HERETICS ANONYMOUS by Katie Henry, narrated by Michael Crouch (HarperAudio)</a></div>
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Week 11: July 4 – July 11<br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/the-name-of-the-star" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">THE NAME OF THE STAR by Maureen Johnson, narrated by Nicola Barber (Brilliance Audio)</a><br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/the-canterville-ghost" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">THE CANTERVILLE GHOST by Oscar Wilde, narrated by Rupert Degas (Naxos AudioBooks)</a></div>
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Week 12: July 11 – July 18<br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/becoming-kareem" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">BECOMING KAREEM by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, narrated by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Hachette Audio)</a><br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/vincent-and-theo" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">VINCENT AND THEO by Deborah Heiligman, narrated by Philip Fox (Dreamscape Media)</a></div>
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Week 13: July 18 – July 25<br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/the-go-between" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">THE GO-BETWEEN by Veronica Chambers, narrated by Karla Souza (Penguin Random House Audio/Listening Library)</a><br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/kids-of-appetite" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">KIDS OF APPETITE by David Arnold, narrated by Phoebe Strole, Michael Crouch and Ryan Vincent Anderson (Penguin Random House Audio/Listening Library)</a></div>
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Week 14: July 25 – August 1<br />
<a href="https://audiobooksync.com/books/akata-witch" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2ba6cb; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">AKATA WITCH by Nnedi Okorafor, narrated by Yetide Badaki (Tantor Audio)</a><br />
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T. Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-90861446897791023642019-04-05T12:50:00.001-04:002019-04-05T12:50:34.004-04:00NASA - Spinoffs book<br />NASA has created another great ebook - this one is titled Spinoffs (a yearly publication), and features dozens of commercial technologies that were created or improved by NASA. The publication provides nearly 50 examples of how NASA benefits various industries and people around the world, from home gyms, pacemaker components, cleaning water and generating power. <br /><br /><br /><br />Print and digital versions of the latest issue and previous editions of Spinoff are available at:<br /><br /> <a href="https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2019/index.html">https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2019/index.html</a> <div>
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<strong style="font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Spinoff</strong><strong style="font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> 2019 is also available on the iPad! </strong><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nasa-spinoff-2013/id904717045?mt=8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased !important; color: #2e64fe; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Click here</a> to view the app in the iTunes store. It features shortened versions of all the articles from the book, image galleries, videos, and more.</div>
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T. Cavanaughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338279619515069352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859141548695169702.post-18450953461414883922019-02-25T16:18:00.001-05:002019-02-25T16:18:30.505-05:00<img src="https://s23527.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/earth-book-nasa-745x419.jpg.optimal.jpg" /><br />
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NASA has released another gorgeous photo book titled Earth, appropriately about the Earth, full of great pictures and information - a great book by itself (think coffee table book) or as a resource for earth science classes. Get your digital versions for free.<br />
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Kindle readers: <a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/earth_book_2019.mobi" rel="noopener" style="background-color: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4eaae7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">MOBI</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">All other eBook readers: <a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/earth_book_2019.epub" rel="noopener" style="background-color: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4eaae7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">EPUB</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">PDF readers: <a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/earth_book_2019_tagged.pdf" rel="noopener" style="background-color: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4eaae7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">PDF</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;"><a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/earth-book-2019" target="_blank">Online reading: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/earth-book-2019</a> </li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc;">Hardcover ($53) from the GPO bookstore: <a href="https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/earth-book">https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/earth-book</a><a href="https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/earth-book" target="_blank">https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/earth-book</a> </li>
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