What’s going on at Bayanihan Books?
In the past 10 days, Bayanihan Books’ mailing list doubled to 43 members. Two books are now available for editing and volunteers have already started writing the outline based on learning competencies outlined by the Department of Education.
I would like to thank all volunteers who believe in this project and the people spreading the word and recruiting more volunteers.
Bayanihan Books has also been mentioned in other websites as well:
- “Pinoy uses wiki model to make textbooks for public schools” is an article that appeared in Inquirer.net. It was written by fellow group member Erwin Oliva.
- The Philippine Commons, the local proponent of the Creative Commons license has included Bayanihan Books as one of the pioneer project in open content and education. The Creative Commons Philippines (CC-PH) is headed by Atty. Jaime N. Soriano, CPA, MNSA. Jane Park of the global Creative Commons website has also written a post about Bayanihan Books. Jun Asis, a proponent of elearning, also mentions Bayanihan Books in his post about Creative Commons.
- My former professor and friend Rommel Feria suggests merging Bayanihan Books with Curriki, a project by former Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy. Hmmn. Something to think about and discuss with the group one of these days.
- “Yearning to be Educated” is blog post by Anne (another member) who, just like me, is a product of public schools. We had the same experience with dilapidated textbooks but I think hers is worse because her surname starts with V. Through her blog, I found the blog of Sidney Snoeck that contains many touching photos of Filipino kids at school.
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Greg, just to clarify. Creative Commons Philippines (CC-PH) is headed by Atty. Jaime N. Soriano, CPA, MNSA. I am only the deputy project lead.
Further, Philippine Commons is us, who are proponents for the commons, and thus we are all part of it. CC-PH merely provides the avenue for people to get involved and existing proponents to be mapped, by hosting the site.
Hope this finds you well.
Hi Greg,
Cool post! You are creating quite a ripple with these. BTW, so nice to see you post Sidney’s photos on here, he is a wonderful person, and will no doubt be willing to plug for us through his powerful images. Hope you guys are already in touch! And thanks for the linkie to my site, hey.
I am so proud of you greg!
Berne, thanks for the clarification.
This appears to be a project close to my heart. I’ve been active for several years to add Philippine books to Project Gutenberg, which concentrates mainly on old books. Although very valuable and interesting, this leaves the urgent needs for contemporary materials open. I’ve been blogging about in a story on the OLPC and Philippine Education a few weeks ago: http://www.bohol.ph/article179.html.
It will be great to be in touch.
Keep this up, Greg! Very worthy endeavor. Hope to give this an active hand soon.
Alain