[IAEP] FW: [support-gang] OS Internet Books for High School

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi Again,

OK, Now I notice they have books for younger children as well, including Algebra I (which CA did not require or review).  It looks pretty good on my Mac.  It can be read without downloading, but requires Flash. There is a PDF version that can be downloaded and used off line. That makes sense for the XO.  Which Activity would be best to download to do this?  It looks like Read might be best since it will read PDF files, but will it read multi-page documents like a book? Should I try something else? I could just experiment around, but that would be re-inventing the wheel if someone knows the answer.

Thanks,
Caryl



From: cbigenho at hotmail.com
To: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org; support-gang at laptop.org
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:40:04 -0700
Subject: [support-gang] OS Internet Books for High School








Hi All,

While we have been worrying about free textbooks on the internet for younger children, the 1000 pound gorilla in the high school text book "room," California,  has made it really start to happen for older students.  Here is an excerpt from Chris Bigenho's blog that has some interesting links (yes, we are related).

XOs as book readers are entirely appropriate for grades 9-12. Are they compatible with these books?... don't know yet. I haven't had time to try it out.

Caryl

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CK-12 Foundation- (Open Source Publishing)

The CK-12 Foundation is a not-profit organization that is working to reduce the cost of text books through 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. http://about.ck12.org/

 

CLRN

This is an interesting follow-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 publishers. Yes, publishers need to look at the future as written on these pages. http://www.clrn.org/fdti/