Wikibooks
While exploring for wikis related directly to the high school curriculum, I came across wikibooks. This wiki is a free collection of open-content textbooks that any person can edit. If you browse wikibooks by subject you will find a list of just about any subject that can be taught in any school. For example, if you click on mathematics, you get an entire list of textbooks that cover math in one form or another. It may not be a book devoted only to math; it could be a science book that covers some type of math in the area of science. Wikis, like wikibooks, could be an excellent additional resource to all teachers in supplementing their current curriculum.
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Shansen: I took a tour of Wikibooks and it is a wonderful resource. After reviewing some of the entries I wonder who has the rights to the intellectual property found on the site and found their disclaimer interesting... a good definition of collaborative sharing...
"Wikibooks is for writing and improving on new books collaboratively, and Wikisource to publish books already published and in a final or almost final state. If you feel your book is of publishing quality, you should take it there; if you don't think it is publishing quality, feel free to place it on Wikibooks for improvement so that it can become what you envisioned it to be.
Regardless of which project you take your book to, please ensure that you do have full rights to reproduce/publish the book yourself, for if it was produced in a short-run you may have signed a document saying only the company can publish it.
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