Thanks for your reply. You e-reader requirements list is great. Right on th=
e
money.
Did you see this article in the Chronicle?
http://chronicle.com/article/The-End-of-the-Textbook-as-We/125044/
Interesting that it may be the colleges that force the publishers to move
toward a viable e-text solution.
I contacted these folks today (http://www.courseload.com/) as they are
mentioned in the Chronicle article and seem to be a little ahead in
developing a solution. Curious to see if they are interested in working wit=
h
K-12s.
Maybe a consortium of indy schools could work together with Courseload to
try and bring to life your feature list.
Fred
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Steve Taffee <staffee@castilleja.org>wrote=
:
> Hi Fred -
>
> What an interesting topic. I look forward to reading comments from
> everyone.
>
> As for my take on this, I recently blogged about digital textbooks here.
> Some ideas may be pie-in-the-sky, I suspect, but doable.
>
> http://taffee.edublogs.org/2010/10/24/an-open-letter-to-e-reader-companie=
s/
>
> Take care,
>
> steve
>
> -----
> Steve Taffee | Director of Strategic Projects
> Castilleja School | staffee@castilleja.org
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Fred Bartels <fredbartels@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I suspect that most of us would like to:
> >
> > =95reduce the backpack loads of our students;
> > =95reduce the vast amount of money spent on textbooks;
> > =95and, take advantage of the pedagogical playgrounds opened up by rapi=
dly
> > advancing information technology.
> >
> > At the same time none of us want to lose the many advantages provided b=
y
> > the
> > good ol' paper textbook.
> >
> > So with these goals in mind, I hope you will share your experiences
> and/or
> > thoughts about digital textbooks.
> >
> > I will compile any information shared on the School Computing Wiki, whe=
re
> > it
> > can serve as an ongoing resource available to all. (Demetri Orlando has
> > very
> > kindly migrated the wiki to a new advertisement-free home
> > http://www.4dmo.com/w/index.php?title=3DHome_Page)
> >
> > Here are some questions to help get you started with this crowd-sourced
> > information gathering effort.
> >
> > 1. What is working with digital textbooks at your school?
> >
> > 2. What doesn't (or didn't) work with digital textbooks at your school?
> >
> > 3. What do you see happening in the next few years with digital
> textbooks?
> >
> > Thanks for considering!
> >
> > Fred
>
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