April 26, 2024

Ebook Toolkit: Rosen Interactive Ebooks

Rosen Interactive Ebooks: Under the Sea: Jellyfish

Screenshot from Rosen Interactive Ebooks. Rosen Digital has introduced a free, interactive ebook platform that customers can populate, à la carte, with unlimited, simultaneous access licensed, nonfiction titles for $34.95 each or $209.70 for a set of six.Sixty titles are currently available and an additional 60 will be released in January 2013. The ebooks feature […]

SLJ Reviews | Multimedia Storytelling Platform Meograph

New storytelling application Meograph helps users create uniquely dynamic, interactive projects, incorporating Google Maps and Google Earth to generate a story time line, which can be enhanced with images, video, text, audio, and links for more information. SLJ columnist Jeff Hastings walks us through the platform in his video review.

Make-your-own-ebooks platform: Aerbook Maker

SLJ columnist Jeff Hastings test drives Aerbook Maker, a new platform for creating your very own tablet-ready graphical ebooks.

Ebook toolkit: Storia

You might want to check out Storia, says SLJ columnist Jeff Hastings. Scholastic’s slick and promising ereader platform is in soft launch, and they’re preparing to go big with it this fall.

Ebook toolkit: SLJ Reviews Mackin VIA

Having just reviewed Follett’s suite of ebook-related products last month, it’s been interesting to compare how Mackin is serving up digital content they offer the pre-K–12 market, including the more than 37,000 unlimited, simultaneous access ebooks in its rapidly growing catalog. It’s especially interesting since lots of that content is available from both vendors. And, […]

Ebook toolkit: Mackin VIA

SLJ’s Jeff Hastings test drives the integrated ebook/database platform Mackin VIA.

Ebook toolkit: SLJ Reviews Follett’s Ereader Suite

Jeff Hastings considers building a Follett ebook collection now that the company has released apps that let patrons read from among their 132,000 K–12 titles, online or off, on iPads and Android 3.0+ tablets.

SLJ Reviews: The IPEVO Point 2 View USB Document Camera

Not every educator needs an expensive, feature-packed document camera. Those wanting just the basics can do it on the cheap with the IPEVO Point 2 View USB model.

SLJ Reviews Casio’s Short-Throw, Lampless Projector

As anyone who works with digital projectors knows, replacing those metal-halide projection lamps can get way pricey. So Jeff Hastings tried out the alternative, Casio’s lampless model, the XJ-ST155.

Kindle Fire vs. Nook Tablet: An educator weighs the pros and cons

Which is the better color touch-screen device? Jeff Hastings stages a tablet shoot-out in his video review.