own textbook, but for the life of me I can't find it. I thought I had
bookmarked it, but apparently now. Anyone else recall this. It was about a
year ago, perhaps longer.
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On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Fred Bartels <fredbartels@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bill and others,
>
> 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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>
> --
> Fred Bartels
> Dir. of Info. Tech.
> Rye Country Day School
>
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