Caryl, The textbooks I saw on the site were all PDF's with few illustrations, so they should work just fine in the Read Activity, even on the XO.
James Simmons > Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:40:04 -0700 > From: Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> > Subject: [IAEP] OS Internet Books for High School > To: IAEP SugarLabs <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org>, > <support-g...@laptop.org> > Message-ID: <snt118-w64ac59e70a9b6be9a4da44cc...@phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > Hi All, > > While we have been worrying about free textbooks on the internet for younger > children, the 1000 pound gorilla in the high school text book "room," > California, has made it really start to happen for older students. Here is > an excerpt from Chris Bigenho's blog that has some interesting links (yes, we > are related). > > XOs as book readers are entirely appropriate for grades 9-12. Are they > compatible with these books?... don't know yet. I haven't had time to try it > out. > > Caryl > > __________________________________________________ > > CK-12 Foundation- (Open Source Publishing) > > The CK-12 Foundation is a not-profit organization that is working to reduce > the cost of text books through the use of Open content and web collaboration. > This is just one more step toward the new publishing model that textbook > companies need to fear and fear it they do. http://about.ck12.org/ > > > > CLRN > > This is an interesting follow-up of the post above. This is the California > Learning Resource Network where they had a Free digital textbook initiative > with review and results. Here you can see the entire report or look at the > summary findings. Notice how many open content books made the list in > competition with the big publishers. Yes, publishers need to look at the > future as written on these pages. http://www.clrn.org/fdti/ > > >From Chris Bigenho's blog at: > http://bigenhoc.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/diigo-university-day-1/#comments _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
