How to Use the Amazon Kindle for Email & Over 100 Pages of Other Cool Tips (The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle - Final days at "BETA" price)
by Stephen Windwalker
from Harvard Perspectives Press (kindleusers.blogspot.com)
These bestselling excerpts from Stephen Windwalker's forthcoming book are a Kindle owner's dream, now over 25,000 words in length and newly packed with great tips such as Using Google Reader to Read Blogs on the Kindle, How to Use the Kindle for Email, Optimizing Your Use of Kindle Search, Projecting a Kindle Future, Writing and Note Taking on Your Kindle, Using "Locations" to Figure Out How Close You Are to the End of a Kindle Edition, Making the Most of Your Kindle Connections Overseas or in a Sprint Wireless Dead Zone, Using the Kindle as a Travel Guide, Using the Kindle to Translate Foreign or Technical Words and Phrases, Refresh Revised Content At No Charge, Kindle Accessories, and Care and Feeding of Your Kindle Battery. Readers may update this content at any time through Amazon's "Your Media Library" feature. The forthcoming book will be available **at no additional charge** as an upgrade to readers who have already purchased these excerpts when published in its entirety later in 2008.
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
by Clayton M. Christensen
from McGraw-Hill
A crash course in the business of learning-from the bestselling author of The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution…
“A brilliant teacher, Christensen brings clarity to a muddled and chaotic world of education.”
-Jim Collins, bestselling author of Good to Great
According to recent studies in neuroscience, the way we learn doesn't always match up with the way we are taught. If we hope to stay competitive-academically, economically, and technologically-we need to rethink our understanding of intelligence, reevaluate our educational system, and reinvigorate our commitment to learning. In other words, we need “disruptive innovation.”
Now, in his long-awaited new book, Clayton M. Christensen and coauthors Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson take one of the most important issues of our time-education-and apply Christensen's now-famous theories of “disruptive” change using a wide range of real-life examples. Whether you're a school administrator, government official, business leader, parent, teacher, or entrepreneur, you'll discover surprising new ideas, outside-the-box strategies, and straight-A success stories.
You'll learn how
- Customized learning will help many more students succeed in school
- Student-centric classrooms will increase the demand for new technology
- Computers must be disruptively deployed to every student
- Disruptive innovation can circumvent roadblocks that have prevented other attempts at school reform
- We can compete in the global classroom-and get ahead in the global market
Filled with fascinating case studies, scientific findings, and unprecedented insights on how innovation must be managed, Disrupting Class will open your eyes to new possibilities, unlock hidden potential, and get you to think differently. Professor Christensen and his coauthors provide a bold new lesson in innovation that will help you make the grade for years to come.
The future is now. Class is in session.
SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Exam 310-065
by Katherine Sierra
from McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
The Best Fully Integrated Study System Available--Written by the Lead Developers of Exam 310-065
With hundreds of practice questions and hands-on exercises, SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide covers what you need to know--and shows you how to prepare--for this challenging exam.
- 100% complete coverage of all official objectives for exam 310-065
- Exam Objective Highlights in every chapter point out certification objectives to ensure you're focused on passing the exam
- Exam Watch sections in every chapter highlight key exam topics covered
- Simulated exam questions match the format, tone, topics, and difficulty of the real exam
Covers all SCJP exam topics, including:
Declarations and Access Control · Object Orientation · Assignments · Operators · Flow Control, Exceptions, and Assertions · Strings, I/O, Formatting, and Parsing · Generics and Collections · Inner Classes · Threads · Development
CD-ROM includes:
- Complete MasterExam practice testing engine, featuring: Two full practice exams; Detailed answers with explanations; Score Report performance assessment tool
- Electronic book for studying on the go
- Bonus coverage of the SCJD exam included!
Bonus downloadable MasterExam practice test with free online registration.
Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching (4th Edition)
by Margaret D. Roblyer
from Prentice Hall
For courses in Computers in Education and Educational Technology.
Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching, 4th edition, by M.D. Roblyer, provides hands-on practice with technology tools to illustrate how to integrate technology into the curriculum to support and shape learning. The author’s five-part Technology Integration Planning Model (TIP Model) shows teachers how to create an environment in which technology can effectively enhance learning.
For this 4th edition, the author has developed a cohesive, comprehensive technology integration framework that builds on the strong research, the TIP model, and the numerous integration strategies of previous editions, and includes powerful classroom video clips of effective use of technology to shape learning.
Newton's Telecom Dictionary, 24th Edition: Telecommunications, Networking, Information Technologies, The Internet (Newton's Telecom Dictionary)
by Harry Newton
from Flatiron Publishing
Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms
by Will Richardson
from Corwin Press
"We need a solid book explaining and illustrating and letting teachers know about these powerful tools. This book meets the need in an awesome way!"
-Mike Muir, Director
Maine Center for Meaningful Engaged Learning
"This author is a gem! It startles me to be 'pulled' so happily through a text about these new Web tools in the context of good literacy instruction."
-Gary Graves, Senior Research and Evaluation Advisor, Technology in Education
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Â
Discover how to harness Web tools to motivate and update student reading, research, and communication!
This book brings teachers a bold vision and on-the-ground Monday morning practicality. It will move educators to think differently about technology’s potential for strengthening students' critical thinking, writing, reflection, and interactive learning. Will Richardson demystifies words like "blog," "wiki," and "aggregator" making classroom technology an easily accessible component of classroom research, writing, and learning.
This guide demonstrates how Web tools can generate exciting new learning formats, and explains how to apply these tools in the classroom to engage all students in a new world of synchronous information feeds and interactive learning. With detailed, simple explanations, definitions and how-tos, critical information on Internet safety, and helpful links, this exciting book opens an immense toolbox, with specific teaching applications for
- Web logs, the most widely adopted tool of the read/write Web
- Wikis, a collaborative Webspace for sharing published content
- Rich Site Summary (RSS), feeding specific content into the classroom
- Aggregators, collecting content generated via the RSS feed
- Social bookmarking, archiving specific Web addresses
- Online photo galleries
This book makes it possible for anyone, no matter how inexperienced, to harness this amazing technology for the classroom today!
Computer Science Illuminated
by Nell Dale
from Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Thoroughly revised and updated, Computer Science Illuminated, Third Edition, continues to excite and enlighten students on the dynamic and diverse field of computer science. Written by two of today s most respected computer science educators, Nell Dale and John Lewis, the text provides a broad overview of the many aspects of the discipline from a generic view point. Separate program language chapters are available as bundle items for those instructors who would like to explore a particular programming language with their students. The many layers of computing are thoroughly explained beginning with the information layer, working through the hardware, programming, operating systems, application, and communication layers, and ending with a discussion on the limitations of computing. Perfect for introductory computing and computer science courses, Computer Science Illuminated, Third Edition's thorough presentation of computing systems provides computer science majors with a solid foundation for further study, and offers non majors a comprehensive and complete introduction to computing.
Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP CBK ((Isc)2 Press Series)
from AUERBACH
This officially sanctioned resource is the best and most up-to-date study guide available for those seeking CISSP certification. Offering a compendium of information security topics, the book is detailed enough to also serve as an authoritative resource for those executives or organizational managers seeking to maintain or improve security measures. The book is packaged with a CD-ROM, which includes sample exams that simulate the actual exam, providing the same number and types of questions with the same allotment of time. It even grades the exam, provides correct answers, and identifies areas where more study is needed.
e-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning
by Ruth Colvin Clark
from Pfeiffer
In this thoroughly revised edition of the bestselling e-Learning and the Science of Instruction authors Ruth Colvin Clark and Richard E. Mayer— internationally-recognized experts in the field of e-learning—offer essential information and guidelines for selecting, designing, and developing asynchronous and synchronous e-learning courses that build knowledge and skills for workers learning in corporate, government, and academic settings. In addition to updating research in all chapters, two new chapters and a CD with multimedia examples are included.
Instructional Technology and Media for Learning (9th Edition)
by Sharon E. Smaldino
from Prentice Hall
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