Ebooks

=**Ebooks are electronic books.**=

Some of the **advantages of ebooks** for differentiating instruction are:
 * Like other mobile technologies, they are easy to integrate, provide learners choices, offer options for private viewing, and are motivating.
 * They have flexible content presentation with many display options.
 * They provide the ability to interact with text through hyperlinks, highlighting, adding notes and drawings, and interactive activities. This can provide the opportunity to branch content and offer scaffolding, remediation, or enrichment to differentiate instruction.
 * They include dictionary support.
 * Some include text-to-speech. (Currently, this is limited to desktop and laptop computers.)
 * Some include foreign language support.


 * If you have a **Palm handheld**
 * Install the Mobipocket reader to your handheld: [|mobireader], [|mathlib], [|bluepalm]
 * Install the [|Making of the Constitution] and [|Annotated Constitution] ebooks
 * Explore features such as highlighting, adding notes and drawings, and interactive questions.
 * BONUS: Go to [|Manybooks.net] and download more ebooks (Get ones in Mobipocket format)
 * EXTEND YOUR LEARNING
 * See what ebooks your local library web site has
 * Create your own ebooks for Mobipocket using the free [|Mobipocket Creator]


 * If you have a **PPC handheld**
 * Install the Mobipocket reader to your handheld: [|Windows Mobile] (Versions for older PPCs and some phones are [|available here])
 * Install the [|Making of the Constitution] and [|Annotated Constitution] ebooks
 * Explore features such as highlighting, adding notes and drawings, and interactive questions.
 * BONUS: Go to [|Manybooks.net] and download more ebooks (Get ones in Mobipocket format)
 * EXTEND YOUR LEARNING
 * See what ebooks your local library web site has
 * Create your own ebooks for Mobipocket using the free [|Mobipocket Creator]


 * If you have a **Windows laptop**
 * Install [|Microsoft Reader] to your laptop
 * Install a [|free Microsoft Reader ebook]
 * Explore features such as highlighting, adding notes and drawings, and using a dictionary.
 * BONUS: Go to [|Manybooks.net] and download more ebooks (Get ones in LIT format)
 * BONUS: [|Get free dictionaries] for Microsoft Reader
 * EXTEND YOUR LEARNING
 * See what ebooks your local library web site has
 * [|Create your own ebooks for Microsoft Reader with] Microsoft Word
 * Note: There is also a version of Mobipocket (described above) for Windows


 * If you have a **Mac laptop**
 * Install [|eReader] to your laptop
 * Choose a [|free eReader ebook] to install
 * Explore features such as adding notes
 * BONUS: Go to [|Manybooks.net] and download more ebooks (Get ones in eReader or Doc format)
 * EXTEND YOUR LEARNING
 * See what ebooks your local library web site has
 * Create your own ebooks for eReader using [|DropBook] (free) or [|eBook Studio] (not free, but easier to use)

TO LEARN MORE
To learn more about ebooks, [|visit this site]. To get more free kids ebooks, see [|our curriculum page]. There are many more free ebooks at [|Memoware]. There are some great commercial (not free) ebooks at [|Fictionwise]. Don't forget to check your public library to see what ebooks they have.