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The Wikipedia Foundation has announced an ambitious plan to develop a free license, online curriculum of textbooks stretching from kindergarten through college.
Wikipedia is an organization that hosts an online encyclopedia with a similar mission. Like the textbooks to come, the encyclopedia is authored and edited collectively by readers of the site, under the watch of site administrators.
Here's the article in c/netNews.com.
Here's Wikipedia.
Our blogs this year will serve us as research journals -- spaces to record, organize, link, and otherwise store and stockpile information we gather for our term projects....
Here you'll find a copy of the description for our online term projects. Read this over and begin to think about how you want to organize and use your blog.
Landscape Project – Students will choose an area of the library for study and observation, such as Government Documents, Archives, Reference, etc. There they will explore and map the terrain of knowledge and services managed in their area. Academic emphasis will be placed on the translation of traditionally linear modes of library and information organization into web friendly forms of navigational logic. Students will express this translation in a series of spatial and linguistic maps that remap their areas of study from a variety of perspectives and across a number of themes.
Project Development Blog – Students will collect their project research and development steps in their blogs. Minimum requirements for the blog include online strings for analytical research, creative themes and ideas, images/map scans, and seminar paper postings.
Project Website – Each student will develop an individual website to integrate and formally present his or her Information Landscape. The website will represent the final map of the student's chosen area of information and ideas.