Notebook as Textbook

Notebook as Textbook

by suzyq2463 - 06:03PM, Aug 24, 2008

Hi,I’m a professor of Old Testament and Hebrew, and every semester I teach a course called Survey of the Old Testament. I teach at a Baptist University that requires Old and New Testament for all its students.I used to print up an unpublished textbook that I wrote for my students. But this summer, I converted that textbook into Notebook format and published it as a web document. Not only has this saved lots of trees (no printing required), and lots of money (the students don’t have to purchase anything), but now what was once a static, boring, black and white textbook has come alive. The book is in color, has active web links, I’ve created illustrations for it, and I can include all sorts of pictures. So now, the students have a document with which they can interact.Of course, this is my first attempt, so there’s lots of room for improvement, but I thought I would share it with the Notebook community as an idea others might like to incorporate.Here’s a link to the textbook on my .Mac site if you’re interested in looking at it:http://homepage.mac.com/suzyq2463/Overview/I’d welcome any suggestions you have for improving the book.Thanks,Susan

pdm32

Member

02:20PM, Aug 30, 2008

Susan,

I just joined, happened across your post and then took a look. What a terrific use of NB and, more importantly, what terrific substance. Great work!

pdm32

Kyotocutie

Member

06:23PM, Nov 06, 2008

Hello!

I just wanted to thank you for showing off what Notebook can really do! Thanks for also sharing the contents of your textbook. I you don’t mind, I’ll be reading it, too!

anne giraud

Member

07:25AM, Nov 07, 2008

This is great!!!! A good idea of how a teacher might use the notebook

Andy

Member

10:43AM, Nov 20, 2008

Susan, I took a look at your textbook and was really impressed. What a lot of work and a great resource for your students. I learnt a lot about how to use notebook too! Thanks

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