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Week 4: Question #1 Which authoring or hosting platform would you use to develop an open textbook based on what you discovered?
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Why would choose you choose that platform? Does your educational institution have a site-license for authoring tools or does it maintain an iTunes U site for distributing instructional materials to learners? Please brainstorm with others.
I'm fairly ignorant on the topic of platforms. I don't know what platform I would use because I don't know all of what's out there. My college does have an ITunes U site and Blackboard, and I am just learning how to use Camtasia and have been asking the college to get Softchalk. (S. Amper)
Excellent point, Susan. Browse our week 4 module and look at the tools that are mentioned there as well: Connexions repository, Wikibooks community/repository, Le Mill community/repository, LuLu and iTunes distribution platforms. Could any of these work for your projects at Bronx Community College?
http://p2pu.org/general/node/15736/document/24736
We do have iTunes and I've been checking out some of the ones from Week 4 just today. I'll see how they might fit. (S. Amper)
iTunesU is an interesting model as it's built around RSS feeds from remote sites. Although with open books is there a need to find collaborators? I am wondering what people want - to find a book, to find a book to edit, to find people to write with, or just to write.
Knowing teachers - it's all of them - but they are different problems - so I wonder how best to solve them?
I also think this is a nice extension to the problem of the team I am in - perhaps ideally we'd write smaller chapters, then make them available for repurposing via a centralised (centralized :P ) list?
So where does the list live?
My community college has no platform to author a textbook at all, and I suspect that's the case for many schools.
We use a lecture capture system (Echo360) which can be used to produce podcasts, but we are not iTunes U participants. Closer to OER, we offer faculty websites via LibGuides to post resources, links etc. Much content is behind a wall in Blackboard or the college portal.
Buddypress as a wordpress add on might work for books that don't need say tables. Google docs has potential. ItunesU sites can be built using lots of tools.
Would you consider WikiEducator and WikiResearcher as authoring or hosting platforms? If so, there are the ones I use, but I would like to try something different, maybe more user friendly - I'll try some of the one available in week 4 module.
Cheers
Speaking as a nerd - I wonder if wikieducator is too techncal. Perhaps this is a valid talking point re how do people write books / prefer to write books usually?
What about Amazon Kindle?!?!?
The Kindle and other readers can't be used to develop content - only to view it.