eBooks

For the month of January, the reading of the books and the tech tool will be intertwined: you will be reading your books through your tech tool. Using your iPad or a Smartphone, download the BryteWave K-12 app. It looks like this:



Once connected, this app will link to your school's eBook collection. After downloading, open the app. You will see a page that asks for your username and password and a URL address. Your media specialist will be able to provide all of that information for you, as it is specific to you and your school. If your device is secure, you can check the box that says "Stay Logged In", as you will not want to log in each time that you use this app. Click the log in button, and you will see a page with two blue tabs at the top: "My Library" and "My eReader". Choose "My Library". You should then be able to view all of the eBooks that are available to you through your school library. Browse through the titles. You will be picking two of these eBooks to read for the month.

When you find a title that you would like to read, click on it. It will say open, and if you click it again, the book will open. It may ask you to confirm that you want to read the book online. You may either confirm or just wait and more options will appear. Reading online is fine if you are in a wireless hotspot, but to read offline, you will need to check the book out and download it to your device. Click on the checkout button. At this point you can read the book, but when you navigate away from the book ... either you close it out or you click on the three lined icon at the top right of the page to go to the My eReader page ... the next time you open the book it will ask you to confirm the download or to keep reading online. You want to confirm the download so that you will be able to read no matter where you are. Once the book is downloaded to your device you will be able to read whether or not you have an internet connection.

When an eBook is checked out to you, you will have that book on your device for 14 days (unless your media specialist has changed the specifications at your school), and after those 14 days the book will automatically be returned to the library. If you finish the book sooner than that, you may click the return book early button, but this needs to be done on the device on which the book has been downloaded.

Hopefully this process will go smoothly for you, but if you have any problems, your school media specialist will be the one to help you. Let us know through goodreads or an email if you have any problems that aren't getting worked out, though. We want this to be a fun learning experience, not a frustrating one.

You may also, but are not required to, check out an eBook from your local library as part of this assignment. You will need an account at your local library to do this, but they will certainly have many books to choose from in their catalog.

For January you will need to make a post in good reads for each of the eBooks you read. You will make a third post commenting on your experience with BryteWave and your opinion about eBooks in general. Have fun and happy reading!