http://bbridges51.edublogs.org Educational resources in the flat world Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:51:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The digital textbook revolution is not new, and can even be traced back to 1971 when Project Gutenberg began digitizing public domain novels. Today, more than 30K free books and primary source documents are available for download from their site. For the past several years, College professors have been writing ... http://bbridges51.edublogs.org/2009/11/17/cetpa-digital-textbook-panel-speech/ While California was leading the digital textbook revolution last summer, with the Governor’s Free Digital Textbook Initiative, Texas was attempting it’s own revolution, both in textbooks and in politics. I’ve reported previously about last summer’s legislation in Texas that went far beyond California’s bills. The two additional components, allowing Texas’ universities ... http://bbridges51.edublogs.org/2009/11/10/digital-textbook-revolution-in-texas-political-skirmish-innovation-unmasking/ CLRN is fortunate to be located at the Stanislaus County Office of Education, which also houses a Learning Resource Display Center (LRDC). Ours is one of 30 LRDCs in California where local educators can peruse adopted textbooks before making purchases.  So, when my curiosity led me to investigate the current ... http://bbridges51.edublogs.org/2009/11/02/three-california-adopted-digital-textbooks-and-what-they-tell-us-about-the-disruption/ After I wrote about Oregon’s adoption of an online, interactive textbook, Nancy Silva correctly reminded me that California has also opened the door to electronic textbooks. In 2007, California's State Board of Education adopted no less than 15 digital-only textbook series for mathematics from nine publishers. While the great majority ... http://bbridges51.edublogs.org/2009/10/29/digital-textbooks-is-it-a-revolution-if-everyone-is-on-the-same-side/ While many states talk about digital textbooks and some even pass legislation enabling their use, Oregon has taken a giant leap by adopting an electronic textbook for K-8 science. Discovery Education Science - Elementary and Middle School Solutions were adopted by the Oregon State Board of Education at their October 23, ... http://bbridges51.edublogs.org/2009/10/28/digital-textbooks-oregon-adopts-an-electronic-textbook/