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Last week I read in the elgg blog of my student that he had been listening to the news on radio and it was about debate in the Icelandic parliament. One of the senators ended his speech be citing me and quoting one paragraph from my blog salvor.blog.is.

I am amused that blogging is now such a hype in Iceland that both that blogs are cited in the parliament. 

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Right now I am busy testing two kind of tools with my students. Most of my energy is devoted into wikimedia projects and I especially am trying to use Wikibooks + Wikipedia + Wikimedia Commons to form together a playground/learning field for teachers. If you understand how things are done in the wikimedia world and then you are better prepared for the world to come in education.  I like wikibooks not because it is fancy wiki system but because link it able you to link  wikipedia articles to you wikibook thus saving you the time for all kinds of definitions of terms  and the ability to include multimedia material and pictures from wikimedia commons saving you the time to look produce your own picture and/or getting legal rights to display pictures. There are now over 1 milljon objects in Wikimedia commons. But very few wikibooks use these possibilities, Most wikibooks seem to be something learners are supposed to print out and the wikibook system are only a tool for the authors while they are working on the final pdf version of the book.  Here is an example of wikibook on Communicaton Theory. This wikibooks uses some links into wikipedia articles but not any material from Wikimedia Commons. Here is one of the wikibooks that I have made as demonstration for my students  about Copyright and the Internet

and another wikibook I am working on about historic color dyes  where I link to articles such as article about Indigo. My problem is however that there are so few articles in Icelandic Wikipedia. Perhaps I should start writing wikibooks in English to demonstrate my ideas. 

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