Kindles in the classroom

I'm interested in hearing your thoughts about deploying Kindle fire on a K-12 environment, and if you already doing it in your network, how do you manage the devices?  
This topic first appeared in the Spiceworks Community

Second the rec for the Ipad in Education Ning, and another good resource is the Edtech listserv.
Personally, I certainly use it in meetings, to take quick notes of classroom... I can access all my files that I have stored in Dropbox. Evernote is a very handy app for a teacher as well, and it has a strong iPad client. I also used it to control the computer connected to the projector - made it very easy to move around the room and move through websites, slides, pictures, etc.
In terms of actual lessons, if I had iPad2, I would definitely take advantage of the mirroring.

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  • Dictation in the classroom

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