Comments on: Sharing, not just planning to share – Crowdsourcing OER Search for Africa

By: Another 1/4-baked idea - OER “virtual reference librarian” at EdTechPost

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:17:10 +0000

[...] also be considering. One is the (disappointingly stillborn) Findanoerafrica twitter account that Dave Cormier setup at the Open Ed ‘09 conference. The other was the experience last night of watching a friend wonder out loud on twitter about good [...]

By: Alan Levine

Alan Levine — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:21:31 +0000

I agree and never intended to be a negative voice on what is a fantastic and elegant idea– Momentum is something one should leverage when it is there.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:32:57 +0000

yeah, I agree, though the nice thing about this and other such approaches that are 'pull' or subscription based is that adding the follow costs you nothing, and is part of your existing workflow - if and when the folks who own the @findanoerafrica account get it together to send out requests for help, those who have added it will see it and can decide to respond just as they would to anyone else in their network. So hopefully they will, but regardless I think the model still works.

By: Alan Levine

Alan Levine — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:02:28 +0000

Twas a brilliant idea– and flatlined for the last month with one announcement tweet. That’s the thing about social media, someone has to keep flogging the new beast to get ‘em rolling. If no one posts a request via the account, it seems like what it is now, a great idea.

By: Open Ed 09 – My debutants ball. @ Dave’s Educational Blog

Open Ed 09 – My debutants ball. @ Dave’s Educational Blog — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:54:00 +0000

[...] put on the conference. D’arcy Norman for giving me ideas for my server (and making me laugh). Catherine Ngugi for being so trusting. All the great questions in my session. The good people at the indian restaurant. Everyone who kept [...]

By: Using Community to Find OER for Africa «

Using Community to Find OER for Africa « — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:25:52 +0000

[...] 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment Scott Leslie has a new post on an effort to help OER Africa find open educational resources. A Twitter account has been created [...]

By: Cole

Cole — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:52:24 +0000

This really is a simple and wonderful solution to a huge challenge. I am thinking about how we could use this in lots of cases at PSU and beyond. I never really thought of using Twitter as a social bookmarking tool … I’ve thought a lot of it as an ad hoc recommendation engine, but pushing the notion that a twitter account is really just a place where content can be shared into (as opposed to out of) is simple and elegant. I’ll be watching this and following the account.