Hi Wiki-Pilgrims,
Apparently a group at the Boston Public Schools is interested in
creating free-content digital texts
Please reach out to Justin Reich (bjr795(a)mail.harvard.edu) if you're
interested :)
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
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From: Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:40 AM
Subject: Fwd: Fwd: berkman center/ibooks
To: Annie Lin <alin(a)wikimedia.org>
Dear Annie,
Is there anyone who worked on PPI who is interested in generation of
digital texts for [offline] reading?
The Boston Public Schools has ag roup that is working on improving
curation of materials for their classes; if there is a good channel
for geneaating free-format and free-content texts they could do their
own curation on top of those collections. Their initial thought was
to work with iBooks and not necessarily take care to use free
content... but then they realized it was a lot of work to do all of
the curation and formatting themselves. See below!
Warmly,
SJ
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From: B. Justin Reich <bjr795(a)mail.harvard.edu>
Date: Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: berkman center/ibooks
To: Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>
Hi SJ,
I hope you are well! I received the request below from a great teacher
in the Boston Public Schools. I poked around Berkman, and Amar
suggested that you might have some contacts who might have some
interest in helping out with a project like the one below. If you do,
please let me know!
Best,
Justin
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From: Avashia, Neema<navashia(a)boston.k12.ma.us>
Date: Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 12:51 PM
Subject: berkman center/ibooks
To: bjr795(a)mail.harvard.edu
Hi, Justin. I hope you're doing well. I'm writing in hopes that you
might be able to help me think about some possibilities for Civics in
BPS. Myself and another college are in the early phases of creating a
series of ibooks for the Civics class that we teach. We use a lot of
articles, self-created texts, pdfs, videos, images etc., and think
that iBooks could provide a really powerful venue for housing that
material. We're working hard to get BPS, or our individual schools, to
purchase class sets of iPads that we could use to pilot this work in
our classes.
What we're finding, though, is that we are spending a lot of time on
formatting, rather than on resource refinement, which doesn't seem
like the best use of our skills. I've heard some rumors that there are
folks at the Berkman center who are interested in supporting the
creation of digital texts, and wondered if you know if there is
substance to the rumors, and if so, could point me in the direction of
any people who are doing that work.
Let me know if you have any ideas.
Thank you!
Neema
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"The pessimist from his corner looks out upon the world of wickedness
and sin, and blinded to all that is good and hopeful in the condition
and progress of the human race, bewails the present state of affairs
and predicts woeful things for the future.
In every cloud he beholds a destructive storm, in every flash of
lightning an omen of evil and in every shadow that falls across his
path a lurking foe.
He forgets that the clouds also bring life and hope, that the
lightning purifies the atmosphere, that shadow and darkness prepare
for sunshine and growth, and that hardship and adversity nerve the
race, as the individual, for greater efforts and grander victories."
--Horace Mann Bond
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Justin Reich
Visiting Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Project Manager, Distributed Collaborative Learning Communities Project
Doctoral Candidate (diss. completed), Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Email: bjr795(a)mail.harvard.edu Mobile: 978-831-3046
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Annie Lin
Global Education Program Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
alin(a)wikimedia.org