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The Orange Grove's Text Plus (& Smarthistory.org)

The Orange Grove, Florida's K20 digital repository and the University Press of Florida have teamed up to created Text Plus an open textbook repository. I thought this was important work even before they vetted and accepted Smarthistory.org—now I thi…

September 29

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Smarthistory.org, an art history web-book, picked as one of the top 100 web sites of 2009 by PC Magazine

Smarthistory.org

July 30

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Smarthistory.org Wins Webby for Best Education Website!

May 5

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Please vote! Smarthistory.org has been nominated for a Webby!

Smarthistory.org is a Webby nominee!!! This is a REALLY BIG DEAL (for us) since we are one of only five education sites nominated by the official judges (there were nearly 10,000 entries overall). Go to pv.webbyawards.com and scroll down to "society…

April 18

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Please visit the Smarthistory.org/blog

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March 28

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At 7:53am on September 8, 2009, Jacky Hood said…: Hi Steven -- The article about our new grant in the Mountain View Voice includes a link to smarthistory: http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=1913
Also, Dr. Kate Jordahl's review of smarthistory is now posted at http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/artreviews.html

At 1:17pm on April 20, 2009, Jacky Hood said…: Steven,

Welcome to the Open Textbook Ning Group. Your experience as the co-developer of an open textbook will be very valuable to this community.

Regards, Jacky Hood,
Director, Open Textbook Project http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
Director, Open Educational Resources Consortium http://oerconsortium.org/

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How have you used open textbooks?

I co-developed Smarthistory.org with Dr. Beth Harris. Smarthistory.org is a free, award-winning, multi-media art history text aimed at the Western survey course and for the museum visitor and informal learner. We use a creative commons 3.0 non-commercial share-a-like license.

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http://smarthistory.org

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The Orange Grove's Text Plus (& Smarthistory.org)

Posted on September 29, 2009 at 5:32pm —

Smarthistory.org, an art history web-book, picked as one of the top 100 web sites of 2009 by PC Magazine

Smarthistory.org

Posted on July 30, 2009 at 9:34pm — 2 Comments

Smarthistory.org Wins Webby for Best Education Website!

Smarthistory.org Tops the Shortlist for International Web Honor
The 13th Annual Webby Awards today named Smarthistory.org as Best website in the Education category.

Smarthistory.org is a free, award-winning, multi-media web-book designed as a substitute for the traditional art history textbook. It is based on informed conversation and is used in higher education and by informal learners s… Continue

Posted on May 5, 2009 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments