TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » tech http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 24 May 2013 19:30:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Wondering what to do with all those cell phone photos and digital videos? A new e-book has the answer. http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/from-fleeting-to-forever/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/from-fleeting-to-forever/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:56:29 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=83370 Mike McEnaney spent nearly 10 years working as both an editor and a publisher of B2B photography and digital photography magazines for North American Publishing Company (NAPCO), the same organization that owns and operates both TeleRead and the Technology Tell network of websites. Very recently, though, McEnaney struck out on his own. And somehow, along [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/humor/april-fools-links/feed/ 1 Spring Cleaning: A digital junkie declutters, thanks to technology http://www.teleread.com/tech/spring-cleaning-a-digital-junkie-declutters-thanks-to-technology/ http://www.teleread.com/tech/spring-cleaning-a-digital-junkie-declutters-thanks-to-technology/#comments Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:56:16 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=81358 I wrote last year about a theory I had, namely that digitization was enabling a more minimalist lifestyle for people who wouldn’t otherwise be minimalist. I could still have my books, music and movies, but they wouldn’t take up space anymore. Well, I’m doing my annual March break spring cleaning this week, and I’ve found [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/tech/spring-cleaning-a-digital-junkie-declutters-thanks-to-technology/feed/ 2 Exploring Technology Overload with Students, Part 2 http://www.teleread.com/education/exploring-technology-overload-with-students-part-2/ http://www.teleread.com/education/exploring-technology-overload-with-students-part-2/#comments Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:10:46 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=80461 I wrote a few weeks ago about the health unit I’m doing with my Grade 2 class, exploring technology and how we can use it safely in our lives. Well, our second lesson was delayed by a snow day, so I’ve only now gotten around to lesson two, and it was a doozy! In our [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/education/exploring-technology-overload-with-students-part-2/feed/ 3 Tomorrow is the National Day of Unplugging http://www.teleread.com/tech/march-1-is-the-national-day-of-unplugging/ http://www.teleread.com/tech/march-1-is-the-national-day-of-unplugging/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:00:00 +0000 James Christy http://www.teleread.com/?p=79871 The fourth annual National Day of Unplugging is upon us, running March 1-2 from sundown to sundown. Go outside! Spend time with the fam! Bake some cookies! Whatever you choose to do, don’t spend the NDU staring at any screens. How will you spend your National Day of Unplugging?  I’ll probably be right where I always am, [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/tech/march-1-is-the-national-day-of-unplugging/feed/ 5 The CEA’s Gary Shapiro to host a Reddit AMA tomorrow http://www.teleread.com/tech/the-ceas-gary-shapiro-to-host-a-reddit-ama-tomorrow/ http://www.teleread.com/tech/the-ceas-gary-shapiro-to-host-a-reddit-ama-tomorrow/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:07:22 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=79969 The modern phenomenon known as the Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) session is perhaps a perfect example of the sort of knowledge acquisition that is only possible because of the Internet. But you know that already. Here’s something you probably don’t know: A gentleman by the name of Gary Shapiro will be hosting a Reddit [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/tech/the-ceas-gary-shapiro-to-host-a-reddit-ama-tomorrow/feed/ 0 Thanks to Michigan researchers, e-readers and tablets are about to become much more colorful http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/thanks-to-michigan-researchers-e-readers-and-tablets-are-about-to-become-much-more-colorful/ http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/thanks-to-michigan-researchers-e-readers-and-tablets-are-about-to-become-much-more-colorful/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:22:54 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=78629 According to a February 6 article that appeared on CIO.com, a website for “chief information officers and other IT leaders,” researchers at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor “have found a way to make colors more vivid on an e-reader screen, which could lead to the creation of advanced displays and spawn the development [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/thanks-to-michigan-researchers-e-readers-and-tablets-are-about-to-become-much-more-colorful/feed/ 1 Exploring Technology Overload with Students http://www.teleread.com/education/tech-literacy-part-1-exploring-technology-with-grade-2-students/ http://www.teleread.com/education/tech-literacy-part-1-exploring-technology-with-grade-2-students/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:28:14 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=78251 As my school’s technology coordinator, part of my job is to explore the different ways our students use technology, and how that’s working for us. Are there tools we are under-utilizing? Tools we are over-utilizing? Are there concerns parents have over how their kids are interacting with technology on a daily basis? I learned recently, [...]

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