I am doing some new open ed workshops for schools and am rethinking my approach a bit. (I am constantly revamping my workshops.) I’m leaning more toward focusing mainly on what I call open “building blocks” (photos, clip art, music,
Who controls our content, and what will be our reaction?
Last year at NECC (the largest ed tech conference in the U.S.), there was quite a stir when the organizing group, ISTE, issued a statement prohibiting audio/video recording without the written permission of both the presenter and ISTE. After a
“Creative Commons licenses legalize the sharing of content”
“By putting a CC license on your work, you are allowing people to share it easily with others and, at the same time, outlining the ways in which you want to be given credit. You are saying, ‘I would like
A marketing plan for OER
Well, my NECC proposals are in. This year everything I submitted is related to Open Ed. (Yes, I am that passionate about this subject.) Here are my submissions (both hands-on): Open-Licensed Content: The Missing Piece – Break free from proprietary
IP thievery
Have you seen any of the Web 2.0 applications that have a button to add an image to your document according to a topic you type in? They then go and search the web (Yahoo images, in the cases I’ve