[school-discuss] test generation and public commons data

[Dennis Daniels <ddaniels@magic.fr>]

Hello,
I'm looking for texts that I can use legally to create publishable 
quizzes for English literature and other ed. domains.

I'm aware of PG http://www.promo.net/pg/ (Good for the 'classics')
and
creative commons http://search.creativecommons.org/
and
wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (Great site!)

In the process I stumbled across
rmutt http://www.schneertz.com/rmutt/docs.html

and thought that was really cool... unfortunately it doesn't seem to 
allow a user to reference a secondary text files for populating nouns 
for example.

I've recently discovered that I can run style and diction from my php 
pages and it's fired my imagination on what else can be done with text 
provided there was a library of contemporary and classic docs that can 
be used by teachers everywhere.

My goal is to create thousands of multiple choice questions that can be 
freely used by teachers every where. I'm working on a script that will 
read in a list of target words, lift and CLOZE the words from texts and 
generate questions using the original text as the source for the reading 
comprehension. I'm not much of a programmer so would appreciate any help 
or guidance on this idea.

Many thanks for tips, trick, advice.
best
Dennis