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NEIT14 - OpenSpace Session - Click "edit" to add notes for session. Toodaloo Textbooks

1. Schools that haev gone all etexts: Tower Hill school, Stepinac high school. At Tower Hill, teachers were mandated to create their own textbooks within a three year period. First year, teachers received a stipend. Mandatory for second/third year without pay. [|Stepinac article--]-

2. Subtext being used by Dwight-Englewood. Google Play had half the books they needed. Google Play integrates nicely Subtext. Not a money saver. Students still buy the text. Pricing same. Saves with the book load.

3. Kno can also be used but in the past it has more of a focus on college materials. Getting friendlier to k-12. They changed their licensing. Used to be they could be rented for only 6 months increments. now it's 9 month increments ro suite k-12 school calendar.

4. Are the schools that are putting them together, are they copyright compliant?

5. iTunes volume license program to get iBooks.

6. Overdrive: Library - buy collections and push them out to students. Buying the rights- $1000 then the cost to actually buy the book to use the intellectual property. Schools only own these books if they are customers of Overdrive. If a school cancels the subscripotion, then they lose the etexts.

7. From subtext, a student could open a book from the library and mark it up.

8. Any publishers that work better? Pearson has been tough to work with. foreign language teachers were using their onloine books but it was browser based rather than app based. Tough to work with on iPads because of Flash. Plus teachers needed to manage kids and classes, Pearson changed the interface and the teachers became frustrated.

9. Ownership of teacher created materials. Who owns? If there was a stipend, then school owns. If not, does the school own? Are teachers still on the school's dime if they develop the text over the summer? Can the school profit from the teacher's work?

10. Process: Who is going to check for accuracy and copyright accuracies. Should department chairs review the books? What processes should be put in place?

11. Digital Citizenship: [|Common sense media]has new resources for Digital Citizenship curriculum.

Attendence: Charles Polzano (presider), Bill Campbell, Tom Jordan, Gwen Kaplan, Michelle Sherry