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Open Internet Evangelism, A Discussion on Policy and Law

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School / Work Affiliation: Inigral/ Standardissimo

Blog: http://www.edumorphology.com

Website: http://www.inigral.com

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Twitter / Plurk / Other Account: mpstaton

About Me: I am an educator now making Web. 2.0 solutions for the classroom. We use ruby on rails and work on open platforms, right now focusing on facebook. Feel free to try out our product: http://apps.facebook.com/courses

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Disrupting Textbooks: cK12 and Flat World Knowledge

Posted on December 11, 2008 at 2:36pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

In Nyack NY, north of NYC, a seed is forming. Flat World Knowledge, a company bent on disrupting the textbook business, is getting ready to move into a private beta next spring with 10 textbooks in business and economics. Jeff Shelstad, CEO, and Eric Frank, CMO, left regular textbook publishing where, as of late, publishers are fighting to keep their head above water by jacking up prices and skewing the revision process. After hooking up with David Wiley and Brad Felix, the group decided to… Continue

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At 10:31pm on May 28, 2009, Shea Smith said…: Enjoyed reading your Web3.0 post on edumorphology.com

At 1:29pm on January 2, 2009, Steve Hargadon said…: Not to worry. I was glad to see you there. You guys can contact Peggy directly about helping. She'll be glad for the support! Happy New Year!

At 12:53pm on January 2, 2009, Miguel Guhlin said…: Thanks for sharing a new venue for the conversation about Open internet!

At 7:26pm on August 25, 2008, Ken Ronkowitz said…: doing some research/thinking about the creepy treehouse idea and came across your debunking post

taught for 25 years in grades 7-12 in a big mall town, but I'm now in "higher" education

the treehouse seems too Simpsons t of terror to work for me, but I agree with the concept

refining thoughts for my own post...

At 5:32pm on August 1, 2008, Nicole Welding said…: I was a classroom teacher--language arts/social studies at the middle school level for 10 years... Recently moved to another state, so now things are up in the air while I decide if I want to go back to the classroom or not. I have a little more time currently, so I get to spend time doing stuff like this--I'm shocked at what I've been missing! I thought I was ahead of the curve--not even close! I'm dabbling with things like animoto, blogging, pageflakes--to keep occupied, but I think ultimately the kids will call me back to school... :)

At 3:20am on June 6, 2008, Fiona Harvey said…: Have added the app and have sent it to others at the Uni. I noticed that Psychology are using it at the moment (at least someone is, may not be a directive of the School)

Thanks again.

At 3:11am on June 6, 2008, Fiona Harvey said…: oh well thats good then! thanks for the link :)

At 5:56am on April 27, 2008, Meghan Connelly said…: Hi Michael - I really like what you do. My site at SEEdebate.org is also free and is an environment controlled by teachers. We focus on current events. Would you take a look when you get a chance and let me know what you think? Feel free to create an educator account so that you can see the student comments...
~meg