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When I started talking about the Zombies and Pirates course I was thinking along the lines of a syllabus, a series of texts, a schedule, and a unifying theme. In some ways a traditional approach, one which I am comfortable and actually enjoy to some degree. The real difference for [...]
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Zombies and Pirates: Let’s begin
Published by July 19th, 2009 in open education and piracy. 7 CommentsImage credit: TheFunkyman’s Photostream “Fuck Your Money Bitch”
Man, does the Open Education Conference lineup of presentations ever look good! And while some fragile souls might be find Dave Cormier’s session off-putting, I find it absolutely refreshing. And from what I understand it is not simply about shock value (which I have no issue with, mind [...]
Well, this past Friday was a real blast for me on many levels. First, I returned CUNY which was my old stomping ground for over 10 years, a place where I met some amazing people (many of whom are still there and leading the edtech charge), had way too much fun, and faced some of [...]
Pirates, Zombies, and P2P….Oh My!
Published by May 5th, 2009 in eduzirate, open education and piracy. 13 CommentsI’ve had an idea brewing for a little while, and I think I might finally try and act on it. I have missed the classroom a bit recently, but not so much the physical space and grading and all that. But just the organization of a series of texts and ideas around a more coherent [...]
Blogfesores 2009: Contenido Abierto!
Published by May 5th, 2009 in open education, presentations and publishing. 1 CommentIt’s a great honor to have been invited to talk at the Third Congress of Blogfesores in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, this Friday, May 8th. I’ve been following the work of a number of people in Puerto Rico for a while now, particularly Mario Núñez (a fellow early WPMu experimenter) and Antonio Vantaggiato , both of [...]
Beth Harris and Steve Zucker’s smarthistory is an exciting effort to re-imagine expensive Art History textbooks as open (as in free) web-based resources—with a Creative Commons share-alike license to boot. From what I understand from the original site designer, Joe Ugoretz, the first iteration of this project was built as a WordPress site under [...]
Well, because the “Crossing the Chasm” theme for this year’s Open Education Conference was a bit too hippie for my liking (especially the image), I decided to offer up an alternative theme/movie trailer for this event based on Roberto Rossellini’s masterpiece Rome, Open City, appropriately re-titled Vancouver, OpenEd City. I kinda think of this little [...]
“Open is always outward facing”
Published by April 13th, 2009 in Mozilla Open Ed and open education. 5 CommentsLast Wednesday I had a discussion with Philipp Schmidt, Ahrash Bissell, and Dave Humphrey for the second seminar of the Mozilla Open Education course. This discussion was designed to focus on four different case studies, but unfortunately Wayne Macintosh and David Wiley couldn’t join us due to technical difficulties. So, the discussion was divided in [...]
PSU Aggregates Democracy
Published by April 1st, 2009 in insructional technology and open education. 11 CommentsBrad Kozlek (of EDUSHIZZLE fame) posted about a little experiment they’re doing with aggregation on PSU Blogs. So when you search for the term “democracy” on PSU Blogs, not only do you get relevant posts from around the blogging platform, but you also get a series of related results from YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and delicious. [...]
Mozilla Open Education course
Published by March 21st, 2009 in UMW Blogs, digital identity, e-portfolios, eduglu, insructional technology, open education, open source, philosophy, plugins, rss, tags, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 8 Comments(Jan) Philipp Schmidt of Peer 2 Peer University has organized an open course (along with Mozilla and ccLearn) focused on designing the “open educational platform of the future.” It’s a great idea for a course (especially a free one!), and I was pretty excited when he asked UMW (by way of David Wiley-thanks David!) to [...]
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