Alec Couros at Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy made me aware of some scary legislation being proposed that would make anonymous posts to the Internet illegal. It seems to me that the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech implicitly guarantees
April is poetry month
April is poetry month and to celebrate, here are some open resources for poetry: Librivox poetry recordings Spoken Alexandria poetry Project Gutenberg poetry Poetry in Wikibooks Quotes about poetry from Wikiquote MIT courses on poetry Poetry ebooks for K-12 from
Podcast of Open Ed presentation
Wes Fryer recorded and posted a podcast of my presentation “Free Content + Open Tools + Mass Collaboration = Learning for All” at NCCE in Seattle last week. Thanks, Wes. I’ll be presenting this again soon at CUE in Palm
Licensing discussion and the whole libre thing
I participated in a group conversation today about Open Ed (part 1 and part 2). It was interesting. The first part of the conversation was really about copyright education, not open ed. When the conversation finally got around to open
Open Ed Hands On Activities
As a part of my interest in building awareness for OER in the K-12 community, I’ve been doing presentations at various ed tech conferences. I have been very happy with how enthusiastic the audiences have been about this topic. (Most