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Sun May 31 08:28:51 EDT 2009 

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Hi All=2C<br><br>While we have been worrying about free textbooks on the in=
ternet for younger children=2C the 1000 pound gorilla in the high school te=
xt book "room=2C" California=2C&nbsp=3B has made it really start to happen =
for older students.&nbsp=3B Here is an excerpt from Chris Bigenho's blog th=
at has some interesting links (yes=2C we are related).<br><br>XOs as book r=
eaders are entirely appropriate for grades 9-12. Are they compatible with t=
hese books?... don't know yet. I haven't had time to try it out.<br><br>Car=
yl<br><br>__________________________________________________<br><br><b>CK-1=
2 Foundation- (Open Source Publishing)</b><br><br>The CK-12 Foundation is a=
 not-profit organization that is working to reduce the cost of text books t=
hrough 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. <a href=3D"http://about.ck12.org/">http://about.ck12.o=
rg/</a><br><br>&nbsp=3B<br><br><b>CLRN</b><br><br>This is an interesting fo=
llow-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 publ=
ishers. Yes=2C publishers need to look at the future as written on these pa=
ges. <a href=3D"http://www.clrn.org/fdti/">http://www.clrn.org/fdti/</a><br=
><br>From Chris Bigenho's blog at:<br><a href=3D"http://bigenhoc.wordpress.=
com/2009/08/31/diigo-university-day-1/#comments">http://bigenhoc.wordpress.=
com/2009/08/31/diigo-university-day-1/#comments</a> 		 	   		  </body>
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