Author: karen

Curriki has a new group feature that I’ve been playing with at a few Open Ed workshops I’ve been doing. If you’d like to see it, visit the K-8 Math Collaborative Project I set up. After you join the group,

K-12 schools have some unique circumstances that can make using OERs a challenge. Among these are concerns about inappropriate content (prompting the need for a pre-screened “frozen” version of materials) and extensive filtering and blocking systems that make accessing some

OK, I’ve given a close read to the Capetown Open Education Declaration. (If, like me, you’ve put off doing so because of time constraints, take 5 minutes and look it over. It is neither long nor complex.) For all the

 Ahrash Bissell, Executive Director of ccLearn, sent this message out about the recently issued Capetown declaration on OER: Dear friends and colleagues, Some of you may already know that I have been working with the Shuttleworth Foundation, Wikimedia and other

In the United States, schools are in a constant battle to try to keep cell phones out of schools. Districts issue policies that ban cell phones; parents protest the rules as a “safety issue”; court cases result. Few are seeing