{"id":125,"date":"2005-04-07T10:38:24","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T10:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2005-04-07T10:38:24","modified_gmt":"2005-04-07T10:38:24","slug":"weaving_textbooks_into_the_web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/07\/weaving_textbooks_into_the_web\/","title":{"rendered":"weaving textbooks into the web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technoliteracy.blogspot.com\">Mark Crane<\/a> put forth an interesting possibility for digital textbooks in TechRhet Daily Digest Volume 2: Issue 74: <i>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been thinking about ways to swap &#8220;playlists&#8221; of favorite online readings as a sort of virtual textbook, and it occured to me that social bookmarking sites such as <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\">del.icio.us<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wurldbook.com\/info\/\">wurldbook<\/a> might be a way to start to do this. For example, if you collected a series of links related to technical writing, you could publish that &#8220;playlist&#8221; to a service like del.icio.us and tag the readings as &#8220;tech comm&#8221; or &#8220;tech comm reader&#8221; or something for other people to use via a single url, perhaps.&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\nMark&#8217;s idea is very exciting because it suggests a direction the future textbook might take as it learns to incorporate the vast and ever-expanding body of scholarship available on the web. An ephemeral &#8220;links&#8221; list could also be attached to a more durable body of content, like an ebook. The electronic textbook could offer these &#8220;playlists&#8221; as a dynamic index which would be continuously updated by the user community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Crane put forth an interesting possibility for digital textbooks in TechRhet Daily Digest Volume 2: Issue 74: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been thinking about ways to swap &#8220;playlists&#8221; of favorite online readings as a sort of virtual textbook, and it occured to me that social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us and wurldbook might be a way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}