Very exciting ideas! Might be worth setting up a site to coordinate
activity, share ideas, etc..
A few years ago I tried to get a crowd-sourced textbook replacement effort
started. I suggested the term infowiki, which, needless to say, didn't catch
on. Here is a short video introducing that project.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQm68LvD8gY
I've wondered if a highly modular approach might be an important design goal
for a collaborative project of this nature. WikiChapters might work as a
name that captures the idea that contributors don't need to create an entire
text... but a chapter would be nice.
There just happens to be a wikispaces wiki available and ready to go with
that name. :-)
http://wikichapters.wikispaces.com/
Fred
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Bill Ivey <bivey01370@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Bill, those are some seriously cool
> ideas. As it happens, I quite recently inherited our 7th grade "Foundations
> of
> Language and Culture" course, and am planning to work with my students in
> creating a text for the course. I was planning on using a wiki to help plan
> the process, gather resources, host the actual "textbook" (or whatever we
> end up calling it), and present our class's projects based off the textbook
> they write. Would this project fit well with what you're envisioning?
>
> Has anyone who may have done something similar got any advice? I seem to
> remember that Sherry Ward
> has an exciting wiki project where students share their expertise, for one.
>
> Thank you!!!
>
> Take care,
> Bill Ivey
> Stoneleigh-Burnham School
>
> On Sep 9, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Bill Fitzgerald <dwfitzgerald@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> (...)
>>
>> I would love to see teachers from within independent schools share a small
>> portion of the customized curriculum they create. If a large enough group
>> of
>> teachers shared lessons they had created, and licensed them under a
>> creative
>> commons license, these lessons could be aggregated together and
>> reorganized/redistributed as coherent texts. Over time, with a critical
>> mass of
>> educator participation, it would be possible to create open textbooks that
>> covered a range of subjects that could be freely reused, and freely
>> redistributed, that would work across platforms (ie, students and teachers
>> are
>> not tied into a single device).
>> (...)
>>
>
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