This term at school we’ve been trying to run IT Pedagogy PD on a wide range of topics. I especially wanted to share how I’d learned to use the range of Amazon Kindle apps and their excellent annotation-to-the-cloud tools while researching my Ph.D. You might think it’s natural that Amazon would offer a free eBook reader when they get to sell books to you through their store, but the features these free apps (for your Mac, Windows PC, iOS device, Android, Blackberry, or Windows Phone) offer teachers and students are wonderful.
I made a handout for the PD, but no one turned up (poor James), so I thought I’d share it with the world, in case it’s of use to anyone. The handout covers downloading the app(s), signing up for an Amazon account, downloading some free books to get started, annotating them, accessing those annotations in the cloud, and even how to get quick references via citation files from books.google.com, another fantastic free service.
