I had a strange experience in my undergraduate statistics class this week. I was lecturing and noticed that a student was busy "thumb-typing" on something that looked like a really thin tablet computer. Ultimately my curiousity got the best of me and I asked the student what was the device. Turns out it was a Kindle (2?) and she was annotating my lecture notes. In surprise I asked, "Are my lecture notes on Amazon?" The student replied "No", the notes were taken from Blackboard, sent to Amazon to be converted into "Kindle format", and they were uploaded to her Kindle. I warned the class that if they start selling my notes on Amazon, I better get my cut.
Anyway, though this is a novel experience for me I wonder if anyone else has had a similar experience? I suspect there may be more instances of this in the near future. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
