Joshua Gay
April 7, 2010
Presenter
Joshua Gay is an activist and online community organizer active in the areas of free software and free/open educational resources. He is currently the technical content manager at the CK-12 Foundation (
www.ck12.org) where he is able to utilize his backgrounds in both software engineering and educational publishing. In his spare time he helps to run the web site
TextbookRevolution.org (
www.textbookrevolution.org). Previously he was the campaigns manager at the Free Software Foundation (
www.fsf.org) where he helped lead campaigns to promote computer user freedom. He currently works from his home in Cambridge, MA. You can learn more about Joshua at
http://joshuagay.org
About the project
All Math 2.0 events are free and open to the public. Information about all events in the series is here:
http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events Wednesday, April 7th 2010 we will meet in the LearnCentral public Elluminate room at 6:30pm Pacific / 9:30pm Eastern time:
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.FCAF787B38E30D58F943EB7232EE27
CK-12 Foundation (
www.ck12.org) is a 501(c)3 non-profit based in Palo Alto, CA whose mission is to create an online collaborative environment to produce free and open textbooks that are aligned to curriculum guidelines and can be customized for individualized needs. Their web site allows users to use, customize, create, and share "FlexBooks," in both digital and print-friendly formats. You can learn more about the CK-12 Foundation at
http://about.ck12.org.
Textbook Revolution (
www.textbookrevolution.org) is a web site that reviews educational works that are made available on the web at no cost. The reviews are organized according to both copyright license and categories and are largely focused on guiding users to complete, online textbooks. Although the sites focus is primarily college and graduate level texts, but more recently they have been expanding to include works targeted at the K-12 level. This spring they are rolling out a new section of the site that includes reviews of course materials and the ability to create collections of reviews and links to resources on a variety of subjects or topics.
CK-12 Foundation (
www.ck12.org) is a 501(c)3 non-profit based in Palo Alto, CA whose mission is to create an online collaborative environment to produce free and open textbooks that are aligned to curriculum guidelines and can be customized for individualized needs. Their web site allows users to use, customize, create, and share "FlexBooks," in both digital and print-friendly formats. You can learn more about the CK-12 Foundation at
http://about.ck12.org.
Textbook Revolution (
www.textbookrevolution.org) is a web site that reviews educational works that are made available on the web at no cost. The reviews are organized according to both copyright license and categories and are largely focused on guiding users to complete, online textbooks. Although the sites focus is primarily college and graduate level texts, but more recently they have been expanding to include works targeted at the K-12 level. This spring they are rolling out a new section of the site that includes reviews of course materials and the ability to create collections of reviews and links to resources on a variety of subjects or topics.
