E-books @ RCE

At Rummel Creek, as we are currently on the transition campus, we have purchased many e-books.  When you purchase from Amazon on a Kindle, the process is rather easy, however using some of the e-books through our card catalog can be a daunting task, especially for the primary students.  We are successful in reading in wifi, it's the downloading that snags us.  Thank goodness our other theme for the year is GRIT, and the students definitely illustrate GRIT reading the e-books.

Other pros on some of the e-books...multiple copies of the same book.  Great for book clubs and instruction.  E-books are usually always available.  I've been working on teachers using them for instruction using the activeboards.  Most of the books for curriculum support are multiuser titles.  It's a big change from reading small books in a circle.

The con on e-books - so many different devices and so many different ways to connect.  Luckily, most of RCE is ipad friendly.  We're still working on parental restrictions and how to get books downloaded.

Moving to e-books has not been a highway of speed, but rather a bumpy curvy slow moving road that will hopefully open soon to a highway!

Enjoy some snapshots of students using ipads to read books.