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Eleonora Panto

OER Handbook for Educators 1.0 - WikiEducator - 0 views

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    David Wiley's handbook for OER
anonymous

Open minds, open tools, open education | melanie mcbride online - 0 views

  • As you can see, this is a truly inspired project that combines big picture vision (open education as a movement) with practical outcomes (using Mozilla/CC to create applied tools and resources) supported and realised by a great group of open minded educators. But great ideas are nothing if they aren’t transformed into action (Paolo Freire’s idea of “praxis”). I have proposed the following project as my own goal and outcome:
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    As you can see, this is a truly inspired project that combines big picture vision (open education as a movement) with practical outcomes (using Mozilla/CC to create applied tools and resources) supported and realised by a great group of open minded educators. But great ideas are nothing if they aren't transformed into action (Paolo Freire's idea of "praxis")
anonymous

Institutional Repositories Should Be Built on Open Source Software - 0 views

  • Institutional Repositories Should Be Built on Open Source Software
  • Open source [1] developers and users are unusually passionate about their work, unusual in ways that make things work well. So let me begin passionately as we talk about open source as the solution for support of institutional repositories.
  • Now that we have that behind us, let's discuss some of the myths and some of the reasons for dedicating your institutional repository to the use of open source software, open standards and open formats which, I contend, are inseparable.
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  • Institutional repositories have taken a few knocks in the six years since Cliff Lynch's “Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age” appeared in ARL 226 [4]. But I'm concerned more here about the upcoming crashes than the bumps we hit on the road to more settled standardizations. 
  • Proprietary software vendors often try to finesse the open source access promise by offering small customizable ports of entry into their code, usually as application program interfaces or APIs.
  • For a long time, it has been argued that the market, as represented by proprietary software solutions, is more responsive to the needs of users, to new requirements and to innovations. Open source is now seen as a diverse infrastructure of solutions each in competition while also free to borrow from each other.
  • The ends and the means of institutional repositories are one and the same. The infrastructure that supports open access needs to be open itself.
  • A quick glance at the most recent statistics produced by the OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories suggests that the vast majority of existing institutional repositories are currently built upon open source software.
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    Proprietary software vendors often try to finesse the open source access promise by offering small customizable ports of entry into their code, usually as application program interfaces or APIs. Like software escrow promises, this is a short-term solution to our long-term problems in curation of our valuable materials within our repositories.
anonymous

Education/EduCourse/Participants - MozillaWiki - 0 views

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    This is the list of course participants. We selected just over 20 people from the list of sign-ups.
anonymous

[slideshare] Digging Deeper With Diigo - Education - 0 views

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    This is a nice intro presentation on the benefits of Diigo for educators. relevant reference points and citations.
Philipp Schmidt

Home - Pencil Project - 0 views

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    Sketching tool that runs in Firefox.
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    This looks like a great tool for sketching those project ideas!
kfasimpaur

Open Ed Syllabus - OpenContent Wiki - 0 views

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    For anyone interested in more background on the foundations of OER, licensing, etc. this is David Wiley's course. Lots of good readings and excellent discussions.
kfasimpaur

The Kids Open Dictionary Builder - 0 views

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    This is an open (PD) dictionary intended to be simple for students, EFL students, etc. It has a glossary builder that exports to wikitext, rtf, etc.
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    If you see a use for this in a project you're doing, feel free to contact us to priorize your glossary lists.
anonymous

Bookmark Shortcuts (and, optionally, Foxmarks/Xmarks) - 0 views

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    Firefox's bookmark shortcuts are criminally underused. It just makes sense to me to hit CTRL-L (or CTRL-T and then CTRL-L if I want a new tab) and type "g chris lott" to ego surf or "flickrcc dancing monkeys" to search for Creative Commons licensed images on flickr, etc. Here's a list of my current collection of bookmark shortcuts and the key words I use, some of which you might find useful
anonymous

[video] Lorna Earl: Rethinking Classroom Assessment - 0 views

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    Lorna Earl unpacks the ultimate approach to assessment AS, OF and FOR learning. NOTE: skip the opening statements and go directly to Earl. She is the star of the show.
anonymous

Kaltura | Open Source Video Platform - 0 views

  • free downloadable video packages, online video player & video editor for wikis, blogs and leading web platforms
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    This is not just another video embed tool - it includes every functionality you might need for video and rich-media, including the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content, create playlists and much more
anonymous

[publishing] Giving It Away | Cory Doctorow - 0 views

  • I've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money.
  • Most people who download the book don't end up buying it, but they wouldn’t have bought it in any event, so I haven’t lost any sales, I’ve just won an audience
  • The thing about an e-book is that it's a social object. It wants to be copied from friend to friend, beamed from a Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) device, pasted into a mailing list. It begs to be converted to witty signatures at the bottom of e-mails
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  • I've done this with three novels and a short story collection (and I'll be doing it with two more novels and another collection in the next year), and my books have consistently outperformed my publisher's expectations
  • perhaps the most social of all literary genres. Science fiction is driven by organized fandom, volunteers who put on hundreds of literary conventions in every corner of the globe, every weekend of the year.
  • As publisher Tim O'Reilly wrote in his seminal essay, Piracy is ProgressiveTaxation, "being well-enough known to be pirated [is] a crowning achievement." I'd rather stake my future on a literature that people care about enough to steal than devote my life to a form that has no home in the dominant medium of the century.
  • t's good business for me, too. This "market research" of giving away e-books sells printed books. What's more, having my books more widely read opens many other opportunities for me to earn a living from activities around my writing, such as the Fulbright Chair I got at USC this year,
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    I've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money.
anonymous

Metamedia: The Adventures of Bollywood Blackboardwala - 0 views

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    Here's a small series of humorous episodes related to recent Blackboard and Open Source Learning Management Systems. The mashups are made with snippets of classic Hindi Bollywood films, overlaid with user created subtitles
Philipp Schmidt

Openness and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education - 0 views

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    Wiley's presentation on the disaggregated future of education. Open education let's us look under hood and tinker, one result is that people take things apart and re-assemle in new ways. Good background for seminar 1.
Philipp Schmidt

YouTube - A Vision of Students Today - 0 views

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    Good background for seminar 1. Michael Wesch says about it: "a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what... "
Philipp Schmidt

Mozilla Corp. WebEx Enterprise Site - 0 views

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    This is the mozconcept space for webex. All our seminars will be hosted here.
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