Re: [school-discuss] idea

[Bill Fitzgerald <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We are working on an install profile based in Drupal that will support collaborative lesson authoring, distribution of these lessons, and remixing of content from multiple sources into new texts.

We already have ePub export of these resources working (so that lessons authored within the site are immediately exportable into ePub readers) and are working on supporting mobi as well. We will also likely support RSS-based export of content as well.

Our work (ie, the code that allows any school/person to set up an authoring platform) will be freely available as a Drupal-based install profile; additionally, we are planning on running an "open content barn raising" in January 2013, where we will have a face to face meeting (and likely virtual participation, if there is interest) where we will meet face to face with people and recontextualize existing open content that is in unfriendly formats (pdfs, word docs, etc) - at the end of this day, our goal is to work with teachers to create texts that can be used and adopted by anyone who wants them.

I'll update this list with more info on the event in January, and on the install profile, as things progress. 

Cheers,

Bill

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:17 AM, LM <lmemsm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ran across this article:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-24/how-a-teacher-made-1-million-selling-lesson-plans

Would be nice to have some Creative Commons or Open Source versions of
this.  If anyone knows some Open Source licenced sites that offer this
kind of thing, I'd like to add them to the Schoolforge.net wiki.

Sincerely,
Laura
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