eBook+-+Pay+Content

Participants:

Alex Ragone, Director of Technology/8th Grade Dean, Collegiate School Scott Wickham: Trevor Day Bill Campbell: Dwight-Englwood School Jason Haynes: St. Luke's School

=**Pay Content / Free Content**=

A book on the web can not just be text -- must be video, audio, etc... We need a new name, but don't have one yet.

=**Free Content -** **There is no lack of content, but you need to organize it.**=

Project Gutenberg - http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page  Libravox - http://librivox.org/  Feedbooks - http://www.feedbooks.com/  Archive.org - http://www.archive.org/index.php -- Old television programs.  CK12 - http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/  Wikipedia - http://wikipedia.org  Curriki - http://www.curriki.org/ Philips Exeter Math Problem Sets: http://www.exeter.edu/summer_programs/7327_7401.aspx Kahn Academy: http://www.khanacademy.org/ Bean Free Library: http://www.baen.com/Library/ National Archives Smithsonian Google Art Project: http://www.googleartproject.com/ flipboard

http://calibre-ebook.com/

Search Free Textbooks on Google: https://encrypted.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=en&q=free+textbooks

=**Hybrid:**=

Google Books - books.google.com Flat World Knowledge -- free content that you pay to publish it.

=Pay Content -- Can you get it:=

iBooks Kindle B&N Nook Google Books Coursesmart Inklink WebAssign Aleks -- Runs on laptops with Java plugin... Individual quizzes -> Netflix Amazon Prime -> Students can get free content -- Textbook Supplemental Information

Art Stor: http://www.artstor.org/index.shtml

=**Games**=

Valley Sim: Studying the Civil War -- High School/College simulation. -- > Valley of the Shadow project... iCivics.org -- Teaching government at the elementary level.

=Online Assessment Tools:=

http://www.schoolnet.com/Default.aspx