Just as Wikipedia is undoing the encyclopedia industry with a high-quality, free product, so Wikibooks ( http://wikibooks.org ) is set to do to the textbook industry.
lets discuss this on the wikibooks website.. my user page is http://wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Karl_Wick and if you hit the "discuss this page" (I think that is what the link says) you will hit my user discussion page.
I am just trying to write about what I know in a way that other people can understand. Sometimes that means writing things like I read in a textbook and sometimes that means writing them much more simply and directly and with less irrelevant details.
If you start writing some pages on Chemistry I will help you form the pages into something we both think is helpful.
PS I totally aggree that one of the best ways to learn or refresh material is to write about it.
-Karl
http://wikibooks.org is the daughter site of Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org) and is dedicated to the development and dissemination of free, open content textbooks. There are a couple dozen incomplete books there now. The goal is to have complete textbooks there that people can use on line or print for free. The volume of content is growing quickly and all it takes is for a couple of people to keep donating a bit of time here and there, and we will eventually have a top-quality, free product that will put the textbook cartels on the defensive.
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Just as Wikipedia is undoing the encyclopedia industry with a high-quality, free product, so Wikibooks ( http://wikibooks.org ) is set to do to the textbook industry.
lets discuss this on the wikibooks website .. my user page is http://wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Karl_Wick and if you hit the "discuss this page" (I think that is what the link says) you will hit my user discussion page.
I am just trying to write about what I know in a way that other people can understand. Sometimes that means writing things like I read in a textbook and sometimes that means writing them much more simply and directly and with less irrelevant details.
If you start writing some pages on Chemistry I will help you form the pages into something we both think is helpful.
PS I totally aggree that one of the best ways to learn or refresh material is to write about it.
-Karl
check out the site wikibooks.org to see a free, open-source wiki textbook site we have already set up.
http://wikibooks.org is the daughter site of Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org) and is dedicated to the development and dissemination of free, open content textbooks. There are a couple dozen incomplete books there now. The goal is to have complete textbooks there that people can use on line or print for free. The volume of content is growing quickly and all it takes is for a couple of people to keep donating a bit of time here and there, and we will eventually have a top-quality, free product that will put the textbook cartels on the defensive.