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Welcome to K12EdCom - An Educational Commons
The mission of K12EdCom.org is to promote and publish OpenCourseWare for K12 schools. OpenCourseWare is curriculum and learning material published under the Creative Commons License. Everything published on this web site is free to use and redistribute. Read the full license details here.
We chose K12EdCom as our name because we want to provide educational materials for children aged 5-18 and we believe in the idea of the information commons. We want to create a commons of educational materials and resources developed collaboratively by a world-wide teaching and learning community.
K12EdCom.org will host curriculum materials and will link to other sites with freely available content. Educators who are ready to publish curriculum should form a publishing team via the K12EdCom Forums and publish their work here or create links to their projects.
K12EdCom is a community project. We believe that education is an important and worthy endeavor. Creating resources for people who want to learn is a good way to spend one's time. That's why we do what we do. We hope you will enjoy the resources here and that you will find a way to contribute.
-- Paul Nelson
Web Based Word Processor
Rumor has it that today Sun and Google will announce a web-based version of OpenOffice.This would be a wonderful evolutionary step for personal computer users. I don't know and don't care what OS my telephone uses. I want to pick up the handset, push some buttons and have it work. Basic computer software should be just as easy. I'm hoping that Sun & Google will announce a free, open source product today. In looking at what is already out there for simple word processing I found Writely.com. They have a great solution for word processing. Users can save files and even share them.
What is a commons?
Here is an eclectic list of readings on the concept of a commons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons - Wikipedia's take on commons.
Tragedy of the Commons, and here, links to Garrett Hardin's famous article, first published in 1968 in Science Journal.
CreativeCommons.org - Find and publish works under the Creative Commons copyright license. This is a good place to start reading.