Scribd was featured In Curtis J. Bonk's new book, The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education. I'm excited to share with you the chapter about Scribd called "Tripping into Scribd". This excerpt is posted on Scribd with permission from the publisher and author.
More on this book: Bonk, C. J. (July 2009). The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, a Wiley imprint. For more information and many free supplemental resources, see: http://worldisopen.com/
To purchase the book: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470461306,descCd-buy.html
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Excerpt from The World is Open: "Tripping into Scribd"
Scribd was featured In Curtis J. Bonk's new book, The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education. I'm excited to share with you the chapter about Scribd called "Tripping into Scribd". This excerpt is posted on Scribd with permission from the publisher and author.
More on this book: Bonk, C. J. (July 2009). The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, a Wiley imprint. For more information and many free supplemental resources, see: http://worldisopen.com/
To purchase the book: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470461306,descCd-buy.html
Scribd was featured In Curtis J. Bonk's new book, The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education. I'm excited to share with you the chapter about Scribd called "Tripping into Scribd". This excerpt is posted on Scribd with permission from the publisher and author.
More on this book: Bonk, C. J. (July 2009). The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, a Wiley imprint. For more information and many free supplemental resources, see: http://worldisopen.com/
To purchase the book: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470461306,descCd-buy.html
Making a Contribution 243,
on any topic. Books, articles, white papers, thought papers, and other
flayors of the month will be placed there in an ever-expanding know!
alge pool, Someone will need to coordinate all these digital documents.
Bur who? And what would such a site look like? First, it would contain
the knowledge access possibilities of Wikipedia and its sister proje
Wikibooks. Second, it might also have the commenting, sharing, rating,
and subscribing features of YouTube, Third, it would be a portal of
resources much like Curriki and Connexions. In contrast to
those content-sharing sites, such a site would be a resource portal for free
hooks, documents, ane papers. After thinking about this, Iwas on the
lookout for such a learning resource or site. I did not envision, however,
that T would literally “trip” into it
lear
TRIPPING INTO SCRIBD
Soon after writing the above section, I discovered that such a site
actually exists, Iris called Scribd. [looked up Seribd and found that it
was located in downtown San Francisco, So after my visit to the
Wikimedia offices on March 7, 2008, I rook a short break and walked
«few blocks from my hotel room to the headquarters of Seribd at 211
Satter Street, just on the edge of Chinatown. The lobby entrance was
filled with balloons, banners, squirt guns, and skateboards, Not exactly
what [expected to see, bur I soon found out thar they were remnants of
the one-year anniversary party held at Seribel the day before. Though |
did not have an appointment, the receptionist told me that they were
willing to accommodace me in less than an hour. When I came back, |
imet with Scribd CEO and cofounder, Trip Adler.
‘Trip Adler was just ewenty-theee years old, full of energy, and open to
ew ideas, Trip was born and raised in the Silicon Valley, and the
valley's entrepreneurial spirit was clearly in his bones.
The idea for Seribx! was developed by Trip and his friends about the
time Trip was graduating from Harvard. He had experienced all too
often the numbing sensation that students at any level feel when they
pour their heart and soul into a prouct that is vead by just one person,
the professor, for perhaps thirty minutes and then is hurriedly graded! and
quickly forgotten or thrown into the bin, When it happens repeatedly
over a span of four oF five years, you start to fee! that your ideas «lo not