Old Media Text: books, encyclopedias, periodicals ...
Lesson 2: Text
Old Media text is often scanned and posted online and available for online learning purposes. In many cases these documents are not optimized for web delivery. Below are two great sources for free e-books.
Free Text-Based Content Sources
- Free ebooks at Project Gutenberg (these documents are carefully optimized)
- Internet Archive (these documents are optimized to some degree, but most are scans)
- See Resources Page for more
HTML and PDF are the most commonly used forms of optimized text for online teaching purposes.
HTML: Text on the World Wide Web
If you have taken an online class and submitted a forum post, you may have noticed that you can select text and make words bold or italic. You may not realize it, but the program is actually adding the HTML in the background when you are making changes. You can also make text into hyperlinks by selecting the text and clicking a link button.The text on this page is HTML text because this is a web page. HTML text is a very appropriate form of content for online instruction. For more information about learning how to write HTML, see this HTML introduction at Mozilla.org.
PDF: Portable Document Format; its everywhere
To learn more about pdf, see this online article at Adobe: PDF. Three letters that continue to change the world. Lesson 3: Images