Orginally posted at Ed-Tech Insider...Ed-Tech Insider: Safari U: Create Your Own Technology Textbook Safari U Imagine you are asked to teach a class or workshop about a particular technology topic. Immediately you think of all the books and texts you have read about the particular topic and think of the best sections or chapters that you would like to share with your students. You wish you could just pull the relevant information for your students and produce a text that allowed you to share with them the best of what you have found...

Well now you can. O'Reilly Publishing has recently introduced a technology that allows a teacher or professor to pull information relevant to their particular course and produce a unique book that captures the information that needs to be shared in the course. While currently this is limted to O'Reilly content, other publishers are to be added to the system to allow teachers and professors to produce textbooks that pull content from a variety of sources that meet the needs of the course. I have recently created one such book for use with my staff. As O’Reilly adds additional publishers to their system, I look forward to using this service for both in-service classes with my staff, and for workshops and classes I teach.