"Hi Lionel
I have looked at flexbooks and was intrigued like you on how a K-12 teacher had the time outside his/her regular teaching duties plus coaching/debating society/marking/BCESIS/keeping their sanity
I looked at some of the authors and…"
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I think it is worth checking out the CK-12 Flexbook initiative if you haven't yet.http://ck12.org/flexr/Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Trevor Schofield Mar 17, 2010.
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I have been bookmarking chemistry info on Delicious for several years now. You can find my bookmarks at …Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Gerry Paille Feb 22, 2010.
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Lionel replied to Gerry Paille's discussion Flexbooks"Hi,
I really like this idea, but having my business/author hat on (and I don't mean to stop the conversation with this qualifier), but it seems to me that producing a resource in hard copy or print in gives the teacher a place to start from.…"
malcolm chrystal replied to Gerry Paille's discussion Flexbooks"that is exactly what i am hoping to do for moodle and my courses. will take a look at yours"
Gerry Paille replied to Gerry Paille's discussion Flexbooks"This is great Trevor. Nice to see an example of reuse of an open educational resource."
Trevor Schofield replied to Gerry Paille's discussion Flexbooks"hi Malcom I have taken a Flexbook unit and recreated it in Moodle with extra interactive links put in at the appropriate places-just another idea for using flexbooks click on the link below-you may have to sign in as guest
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malcolm chrystal replied to Gerry Paille's discussion Flexbooks"so let me get this straight...with flex books I can edit what i want my students to read and then a link is created? I can avoid hearing "i read the whole chapter" stuff when the whole chapter didn't need to be read? this is awesome!"
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I think it is worth checking out the CK-12 Flexbook initiative if you haven't yet.http://ck12.org/flexr/See More
Gerry Paille replied to Gerry Paille's discussion Anyone Using a Social Bookmark Site?"I just started a new tag on delicious for biology resources: bc_sc_bio
You can find the latest resources tagged with bc_sc_bio at http://delicious.com/tag/bc_sc_bio
So, if you use Delicious, don't forget to tag your resources."
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I have been bookmarking chemistry info on Delicious for several years now. You can find my bookmarks at http://delicious.com/tuchodi/bc_sc_chemSome of these may be outdated by now, but there are some good ones. If we all tag or chemistry bookmarks in delicious with bc_sc_chem then it is easy enough to find the collective set:http://delicious.com/tag/bc_sc_chemSee More
Gerry Paille posted a discussionAnyone Using a Social Bookmark Site?
I have been bookmarking chemistry info on Delicious for several years now. You can find my bookmarks at http://delicious.com/tuchodi/bc_sc_chemSome of these may be outdated by now, but there are some good ones. If we all tag or chemistry bookmarks in delicious with bc_sc_chem then it is easy enough to find the collective set:http://delicious.com/tag/bc_sc_chemSee More
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