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In this chapter we look at ways of providing teaching materials for student field use. We consider the creation of a digital field (or laboratory) notebook and include experiences of using a variety of apps for taking notes in the field. We also devote a separate section to PDF file handling.
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France, D. et al. (2015). Display and Recording: e-Books and Field Notebooks. In: Enhancing Fieldwork Learning Using Mobile Technologies. SpringerBriefs in Ecology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20967-8_4
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