Talk for Books in Browsers 2013 at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. Showing a new WYSISWYG editor for creating and adapting textbooks in EPUB, web, and PDF format. http://github.com/oerpub/github-bookeditor
2. My Background
Kathi Fletcher
Connexions PM and Technical Director 4 Yrs
Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow 3 Yrs
Tools for Remixing Open Education Resources
http://bit.ly/fletcher-bib13
@oerpub
@kefletcher
http://bit.ly/fletcher-bib13
#bib13
3. Vision for learning
Content with
connections
My classes and
my past
knowledge
Everywhere I
am, on all my
devices
===>
Student image: By Ron player8 (On College, only for distribution.) CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
7. Books & courses in - flash cards out
Collabo
rative
Stats
=>
Birds By Pierre Dalous (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
12. What is needed to achieve the vision?
Common Format
โ
Recognizable structure (definitions,
exercises, etc.)
Easy to use editor for authors
Easy to extend
http://bit.ly/fletcher-bib13
Publicly available books
@oerpub
@kefletcher
http://bit.ly/fletcher-bib13
#bib13
13. All possible now
HTML5 (language of the web)
โ Separate structure and style
โ HTMLBook, TextbookHTML
โ EPUB3 (language of mobile web)
โ Browser-based technology
โ
Create, annotate, view on the web
โ Content hosts
http://bit.ly/fletcher-bib13
โ Github, Connexions
โ
@oerpub
@kefletcher
http://bit.ly/fletcher-bib13
#bib13
21. About github-bookeditor
Usability, accessibility
โ Books stored on github
โ Format EPUB3/HTML5 (TextbookHTML)
โ
โ
Edit in the browser
Open source (github.com/oerpub)
โ Based on Aloha
http://bit.ly/fletcher-bib13
โ Embeddable, adaptable
โ
@oerpub
@kefletcher
http://bit.ly/fletcher-bib13
#bib13
22. View book on github
http://bit.ly/fletcher-bib13
@oerpub
@kefletcher
http://bit.ly/fletcher-bib13
#bib13
23. Services: PDF on demand
http://bit.ly/fletcher-bib13
@oerpub
@kefletcher
http://bit.ly/fletcher-bib13
#bib13
24. Services: PDF on demand
http://bit.ly/fletcher-bib13
@oerpub
@kefletcher
http://bit.ly/fletcher-bib13
#bib13
29. Try it out
Bookeditor (alpha): (Chrome only right now)
If you don't have a github account, x out of the login and you can
be anonymous
Demo book opens and has some more information and links
editor.oerpub.org
or
oerpub.github.io/github-bookeditor
Developers:
github.com/oerpub/github-bookeditor
github.com/oerpub/Aloha-Editor
http://bit.ly/fletcher-bib13
github.com/philschatz/pdf-ci
@oerpub
@kefletcher
http://bit.ly/fletcher-bib13
#bib13
30. Hackday Tomorrow!
October 26, San Francisco
Find Phil โ key designer, developer
cnx.org
Help us integrate EPUBjs and
Hypothes.is
Use vagrant to get a developer
instance up
and explore your own ideas to
extend the editor.
@oerpub
@kefletcher
http://bit.ly/fletcher-bib13
#bib13
Editor's Notes
If I have to remember a poem, then use speech to text to "grade" me. This can quiz me about when the exam is, and give me pictures of people I met at a conference to remember their names.