Comments on: Colleen O’Connor: ‘Yes’ to eBooks in state classrooms

By: Giving out free reports

Giving out free reports — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:50:52 +0000

Hi, Just found your blog surfing on the internet! I am too much interested in the information like you are providing. Why you do not write a new ebook and publish it by collecting more information on this topic. NO! Do not take me wrong! I am not a publisher. Ha! Ha! Ha! You have written in a detailed manner that’s why I am asking you about the ebooks. Have you ever thought of any type of ebook and in its business. It is a really hardwork to create a blog like yours and to maintain it. But you have done really a great job. Congrates! I have few questions. Do you think that blogs are better than ebooks for providing information and making money. I Just take the ebooks as products. I have never tried to write any ebook and to do any sort of business. If I say something about my website here, then you will consider this comment as a spam and NO One like that. But would like to say, that while selling FREE EBOOKS I have made such a huge amount, just in few days, that you will be amazed! If you visit my website (by clicking on my name in this comment) then you are bound to be surprised. I am sure this is a new technique of selling, I have found over the net. But lets talk about writing ebooks and providing unique information to the internet community, have you ever tried writing anything and publishing it? Do you also sell ebooks? What is your experience? I am interested in knowing about it or your experiments? Waiting for reply - Thanks, Regards

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Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:21:36 +0000

[...] O’Connor at the SanDiego News Network looks at Gov. Schwarzenegger’s push for digital textbooks through an ereader lens - Surely, the Governor can approach these competing eBook vendors and [...]

By: Watcher

Watcher — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:07:06 +0000

Great. Another way to spend a few billion dollars the state doesn’t have. I wish the widget manufactures would just give the schools their chinese manufactured products, but that’s not why they’re in business. Instead of coming up with new ideas for spending money, how about providing some suggestions for ways the state could save money?

By: Russ Brawn

Russ Brawn — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:29:41 +0000

I agree with Ms. O’Conner’s assessent that a little foresight, more courage and support of the Governor can help California get out of its own tracks and utilize the vast technological resources that are available to help teaching and learning. Dialogue around progression to instruction via digital media needs to focus upon the merits of the new delivery, starting with its ability to vastly expand students’ connection
of the text material to linked web resources. The California Education Technology Professionals Association (CETPA) urges the K-12 Education community to support full consideration of this initiative, leaving time for identification of relevant factors, deliberation of its pros and cons, and appreciation of the merits and challenges in proceeding to its implementation. Consideration of digital media’s effectiveness in
teaching and learning, getting away from backpacks heavy with multiple texts that have
become common among children of all ages, possible lessening of the environmental
impact of traditional paper-based texts, use in meeting the dictates of the Williams Act
for access by disadvantaged students and yes, possible cost savings should be the start of
a list of considerations.
Russ Brawn, CETPA President

By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:33:19 +0000

Add to this the potential to manufacture the products in California, (think jobs and revenue);
Ha Ha! Like anythig will be manufactured here.