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Edu. acronym of the day…
“Be Kind, Do Your Best, and Become a Voracious Reader” | Moving at the Speed of Creativity
Google Opens Up Its EPUB Archive
Tech Texts
Found these in our local Parent/Teacher store...
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The descriptions on the front of the "Blogging in the Classroom" book makes everything seem so easy!
Textbook of the future?
Came across this story today in my RSS feeds. What does this mean for the traditional publishing companies? For right now I do not think they need to worry.
CK-12: Remix and Share Your Own Text Books as FlexBooks
"CK-12 wants to bring open data to school textbooks under the name of FlexBooks. Through the tools on their site they'll let schools, teachers, parents and students can pull articles from different sources . The books will be available to others via the site. The demo that they showed this morning at TOC really wowed the publisher-heavy audience. The non-profit, currently in limited beta, will be launching in August."
"The UI for book creation is simple and attractive (the Engineering Book above was made during the demo). You can search content from CK12, Wikipedia, Wikibooks, and WikiUniversity. The results are articles that can be previewed. Once an article is selected for inclusion in the book it can simply be dragged over to the Table of Contents. At any point in the process the book can be downloaded, viewed as a PDF or saved to CK-12. The internal storage format is DocBook, a format used by book publishers (like us; in fact the tool is very similar in concept to our own Safari U -- just different source materials and pricing)."
(Via O'Reilly Radar.)