About Technotopia
Our goal is to provide a complete standalone educational resource,
for use by the general public, for free. We believe that education,
in particular the tools to develop knowledge and wisdom, should be
freely available to all. The first step we have taken is to build a
simple online book reading tool. Our readers span the globe!
However, the next stage of our plan will be much more difficult and
time consuming. We are now starting to work on a comprehensive resource
which will eventually provide self-directed access to educational
resources which approximate a high school or college curriculum. We
understand that this is a huge project, but the fact is that if we are
able to accomplish all of this, we still won't be finished.
We Need Your Help
Due to the size and scope of this project, we are simply going to open
the doors and turn this into a public
initiative. If you are a teacher
or professor perhaps you would be willing to share some of your subject
knowledge? In particular, what we are really going to need help to
develop is individual lesson plans that demonstrate or teach specific
items as part of a topic within a course.
| Online Virtual Books
While reading is just entertainment to many it represents a vital
means of education to others. The provision of well organized and easy
to access libraries of material helps to level the playing field a
bit. At the same time, an online book reader will allow us to present
large volumes of material, such as public domain text books, as part of
an online educational system.
Using The Virtual Reader
The main goal with this project has been to emulate the natural
simplicy of reading a real book. To begin reading a book online simply
click on the name of a book to open it. See our
books
page for a list of books currently available. More are on the way...
The reader is simply an HTML page that presents literary works as
two side by side pages. When you are done reading that page, you can
simply turn the page by clicking "next page". At any time you are
reading the book you can flip back and forth page by page. To save
your spot, simply bookmark your current page (using your browser). A
browser bookmark contains enough information to bring you back to the
same page again.
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