Our mission is to provide easy access to high quality open source alternatives to well-known commercial products. And remember that open source software is also a freeware alternative.
RiP: A remix manifesto is an open source documentary about copyright and remix culture. Created over a period of six years, the film features the collaborative remix work of hundreds of people who have contributed to this website, helping to create the world's first open source documentary.
"K12OpenSource.com is a collaborative effort to organize and bring the benefits of Open Source Software and training to K-12 educational organizations--that is, to help build a more organized Free and Open Source Software "ecosystem" for K-12."
The Open Innovation Portal (U.S. Department of Education) is ready for contributors. The main idea is for educators to share what's working and what's not, and to find partners in innovation.
Mahara is an open source e-portfolio system with a flexible display framework. Mahara, meaning 'think' or 'thought' in Te Reo Māori, is user centred environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed. Mahara also features a weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online learner communities.
SnagFilms is committed to finding the world's most compelling documentaries, whether from established heavyweights or first-time filmmakers, and making them available to the wide audience these titles deserve.
SnagFilms.com is a website where you can watch full-length documentary films for free, but we're also a platform that lets you "snag" a film and put it anywhere on the web. With a library of over 550 films, and rapidly growing, you're bound to find films that resonate with your interests. We make it easy for you to find a film that shines a light on a cause you care about. You can then open a virtual movie theater on any web site, so any one can watch your favorite SnagFilms for free.
SnagFilms.com is a website where you can watch full-length documentary films for free, but we're also a platform that lets you "snag" a film and put it anywhere on the web. With a library of over 850 films, and rapidly growing, you're bound to find films that resonate with your interests. We make it easy for you to find a film that shines a light on a cause you care about. You can then open a virtual movie theater on any web site, so any one can watch your favorite SnagFilms for free.
Before the 1:1 rollout we spent at least six months on staff development. Going from 30 kids in a room opening textbooks to 30 kids opening computers is a significant shift.
Four years later we're still not there yet but we've definitely made progress. Getting to 100 percent is going to take a while.
"When you move an entire district into a digital environment a lot of things change. What doesn't change is the fact that everything revolves around academic achievement."
The Pennsylvania Online Learning Summit is a face-to-face conference on October 28, 29 and 30, 2010. We will bring together PA educators who have an interest in online and blended learning. We will concentrate on Moodle, an open-source learning management system, though many other distance-learning technologies will be shared and discussed.
"Tge NROC is a growing library of high-quality course content for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement.
NROC course content is an Open Educational Resource (OER) and is available at no cost for individual use here at our website. "
"As promised, we hereby release all the source code to EtherPad.
http://code.google.com/p/etherpad/
Our goal with this release is to let the world run their own etherpad servers so that the functionality can live on even after we shut down etherpad.com.
If you are just interested in running an etherpad server, these instructions should get you up and running."
Google Apps administrators can use a open source project, the Feed Server Client Tool (FSCT) to control which gadgets appear in the Google Sites gadget directory for their domain. Before beginning, make sure you are running Java 1.6 (you can check your version by running the "java -version" command)
Welcome to the Great Lakes Google Apps K-12 User Group!
This group is open to all K-12 schools within the states/provinces of Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Ontario, and Pennsylvania who use or are considering using Google Apps.
Our goal is to connect K12 Google Apps users within these states and provinces to learn and share from each other through community discussion forums, events and webinars.
"In August, the FCC clarified an earlier ruling that led to widespread blocking of social media networks by school districts receiving discounted internet access through federal e-Rate dollars."
Today, with digital networks and social media, this pattern is changing. Stories now are open-ended, branching, hyperlinked, cross-media, participatory, exploratory, and unpredictable. And they are told in new ways: Web 2.0 storytelling picks up these new types of stories and runs with them, accelerating the pace of creation and participation while revealing new directions for narratives to flow.
Center for Social Media at American University...Welcome to a code of best practices in fair use for online video, and to studies and other information that help you understand the importance of fair use in maintaining an open door for tomorrow's creativity.