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What Art Forms Reflect the Culture You Want to See?
Yesterday an interesting video crossed my path that I ended up viewing last night It’s a biography of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, one of the most famous Buddhist teachers to come to the west after the invasion of Tibet. He is a major figure and yet very problematic for some people, and the film is wonderful [...]
Who will be the 3rd OpenEd 2012 keynote? You decide!
This being #openeducationweek, as organizers of this year’s Open Ed conference, we decided it made sense to speed up our process a bit so that we could announce the conference themes and keynotes during this auspicious week. And yesterday we quietly did; this year’s theme is “Beyond Content” and the first two of three keynotes [...]
Open Textbook Authoring Tools Part 4 – The Rest
Well, we are nearing the end of this series on Open Textbooks, just one or two posts to go. Before we leave off this section on Authoring Tools, though, I wanted to provide some annotated links to a host of others I have discovered in my travels in case they were of use to someone. [...]
Open Textbook Authoring Tools Part 3 – Book Sprints
In my first two write-ups, I framed the pieces around the tools, WordPress and Mediawiki specifically. Hopefully it was clear though that part of the impact of these tools in creating open textbooks is not simply about the products they can produce, but that they can also change the entire process of book authoring and [...]
Open Textbook Authoring Tools Part 2 – WordPress and Pressbooks
I moved this blog on to the wordpress platform in 2007 (I think.) I built a open learning search portal on wordpress in 2009. I have participated and helped organize a bunch of different “wordpress in education” events here in BC, and maintain wordpress installations for both BCcampus and etug. So I probably don’t need [...]
Open Textbook Authoring Tools Part 1 – Mediawiki
So my last post should have made it clear that what I am ultimately hoping to promote/support for BC is an authoring and publishing system for open textbooks that: can enable collaborative authoring if desired can be done “out in the open” to enable as much as possible the conditions for serendipity to emerge, so [...]
The Moving Target of Open “Textbooks”
As part of our efforts here in BC around Open Textbooks, I have asked those involved with the project to single out some of their favourite examples. You see, when we use the term “open textbooks” we all think we know what we mean by it, but like the blind men and the elephant, depending [...]
A Day in the life of an “OER Librarian”
OK, so “OER Librarian” is a bit of a stretch – much as I might secretly harbour a desire to be a librarian, I don’t even play one on TV. But recently I was asked to help find some suitable Open Textbook alternatives for a collaborative program in ICT here in BC, and I wanted [...]
Your Favourite Open Textbook Examples?
While I predicted that 2011 would be the “Year of the Open Textbook” (and I don’t think I got that wrong), for me personally it’s looking more like 2012 will be. BCcampus is hoping to help catalyze the production of a number of open textbooks here in BC. While we’re still working on the funding, [...]
A Short Poem about S.O.P.A
With sincere apologies to Martin Niemölle, and in no way meaning to diminish the seriousness of its original subject, I offer this short remix, prompted most recently by SOPA: First they came for the file sharers, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a file sharer. Then they came for the free content creators, [...]
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