2009/10/29 Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com:
Hi Again,
OK, Now I notice they have books for younger children as well, including
Algebra I (which CA did not require or review). It looks pretty good on my
Mac. It can be read without downloading, but requires Flash. There is a PDF
version that can be downloaded and used off line. That makes sense for the
XO. Which Activity would be best to download to do this? It looks like Read
might be best since it will read PDF files, but will it read multi-page
documents like a book? Should I try something else? I could just experiment
around, but that would be re-inventing the wheel if someone knows the answer.
Read should be fine for that, but please try with a recent version of it.
Regards,
Tomeu
Thanks,
Caryl
From: cbige...@hotmail.com
To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; support-g...@laptop.org
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:40:04 -0700
Subject: [support-gang] OS Internet Books for High School
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
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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
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