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Research Studies on Web. 2.0 Needed
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Carol Horner replied to Carol Horner's discussion 'Electronic Textbooks'
Thanks. I totally agree about the shift to project based learning. However, many of our teachers and parents are not there yet and still want a textbook. The web sites you gave are great resources. Thanks again!
Carol Horner replied to Carol Horner's discussion 'Electronic Textbooks'
I found this resource today
Open Culture
Bruno Wu replied to Carol Horner's discussion 'Electronic Textbooks'
No problem.
Carol Horner replied to Carol Horner's discussion 'Electronic Textbooks'
No idea. Sorry
Bruno Wu replied to Carol Horner's discussion 'Electronic Textbooks'
No problem Carol.
I am actually trying to start a social enterprise that gives away free ereaders to students in Hong Kong. Do you know who I can turn to to ask for help on this matter in this forum?
Carol Horner replied to Carol Horner's discussion 'Electronic Textbooks'
Thanks!
Bruno Wu replied to Carol Horner's discussion 'Electronic Textbooks'
open source textbook models:
www.flatworldknowledge.com
www.ck12.org
virtual textbook model:
www.smarthistory.org
this is the wave of the future for textbooks i think.
Carol Horner replied to Carol Horner's discussion 'Electronic Textbooks'
Agreed. Where do you get the virtual textbooks? Where can I access open source textbooks? That's exactly what I am looking for.
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- I am the Technology Director at Wesleyan School. Wesleyan is a private college prep school in Norcross, GA with 1080 students.
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- At 10:57pm on January 12, 2009,
Jack said… - Hi Carol!
Hope you had a nice winter break. I was wondering if you or your students would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. If not, perhaps you have some educator contacts you could direct me to. We'd really like to get students involved from Georgia!
You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!
- At 8:57pm on December 27, 2008,
Alyshia Olsen said… - Hi Carol,
I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this classroom20 network is no exception. (I've also sent this out on other Ning networks you may be a part of.) My name is Alyshia Olsen; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham, MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. Since you are in the 'connecting content and technology' group, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:
Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2009, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.
Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975 . We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets at many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.
Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!
Thanks,
Alyshia Olsen
anotherdayaway42@gmail.com
- At 10:21am on July 24, 2008,
Sanjib Kumar Parida said… - Hi Carol,
We are know as SITACT Incorporated and we operate out of Chicago. You can
find more about us at www.sitact.ent. We are into developing virtual
learning environments and course settings so that it becomes easy to set up
an online course for a teacher. A sample of what we do can be seen at
www.lms.sitact.net . Please use the guest login
and use "frankieuncle" as the guest access code. What you will see in here
is a simple course that describes the software, but this course can be
designed to teach diverse subject matter to students. If you feel the kind
of work we are doing will be useful for you, we will be glad to work with
you setting up such virtual courses for collaborative dissemination and consumption of knowledge. Even if you didn't like the work we do, please let us know if we can do anything else for you.
Regards,
Sanjib
sanjib@sitact.net
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