[TOS] textbook 0.8.1

[Heidi Ellis]

Hi Folks,

I'll be using the textbook in the fall and I'd be happy to provide feedback
and update as I can, but I'm not likely to have much time to devote to
actually writing. 

Heidi

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[mailto:tos-bounces at teachingopensource.org] On Behalf Of Karsten Wade
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 5:51 PM
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Subject: [TOS] textbook 0.8.1

The time is a bit past for me to have said, "Does anyone want to drive
making the next version of the textbook happen?  If not, I'll do it."

So, consider that question asked.  Honestly, since it was clear Greg
couldn't do this next version, I just figured I'd be doing it.  Sorry that I
just proceeded without checking in first.

Here is where we're starting to coalesce what we know of the past, what
we've heard about where it take the textbook next, and what work any of us
have done so far in terms of getting it to that direction:

http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/Practical_OSS_Exploration_textbo
ok_0.8.1_planning

The 'we' is, so far, Mel and I recollecting from our meeting with Tim Budd
and Carlos Jensen at OSU, and our other experiences, and what Mel knows
aobut textbook creation.

Some more materials landing there later from our EtherPad work today.

Here is where things are going to be happening in terms of content work
landing.

http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/Textbook_Roadmap

Thoughts?

Are all authors available to do some work on their chapters?  We need to
reverse engineer to derive the learning objectives for those chapters.  I'll
start with the Documentation chapter.

http://web.mit.edu/tll/teaching-materials/learning-objectives/index-learning
-objectives.html

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Developing_Learning_Objectives

I'm thinking of using the S-K-A method from the MIT article (not just
because it sounds like 'ska').  However, I am so wide open to the expert
opinions on this list that I look like Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.

- Karsten
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