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List:       textbook-l
Subject:    Re: [Textbook-l] getting to work
From:       Daniel Ehrenberg <littledanehren () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2003-06-27 22:52:12
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--- Karl Wick <karlwick@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have been playing around a bit on
> http://test.wikipedia.org building preliminary
> textbook
> structures and am noticing a tendency to build
> layers of
> links which organize the information down into
> bite-size
> modules. The style for this one, about organic
> chemistry,
> is not nearly as linear as the physics one that I
> had
> started earlier as a traditional text ... maybe it
> is
> because of the freedom allowed by hyperlinking. I am
> excited to see how all of this develops and
> facilitates
> non-linear learning. BTW I aggree that the modules
> will be
> much smaller than traditional textbook chapters. My
> plan
> for now is to refine each module down to one idea
> and send
> out any other ideas to thier own module unless an
> exceedingly short comment is all that is required,
> or one
> idea encompasses the relation between a couple of
> other
> linked modules.
> 
> PS Is it just me or does it seem like people are
> using this
> space to rant on non related subjects ? Maybe I am
> subconsciously taking it personally or something ..

I thought the reason for a textbook was for it to be
linear. Otherwise, people could just use the
encyclopedia.
-LDan

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