I am writing to nominate Jeff Lebow as T&L's 2007 Leader of the Year. I have had the pleasure of knowing Jeff since 2006 when I was first a lurker and then an active participant within EdTechTalk.com, the online educational community founded by Jeff and Dave Cormier. Jeff has been devoted to growing online communities…
Join us at EdTechWeekly on Sunday nights at 7:00 p.m. ET on the EdTechTalk.com channel of the WorldBridges network. Here are the links we will be discussing during this week’s live webcast. Feel free to add your suggestions by adding a del.icio.us tag of “for:edtechtalk” to your favorite links. See you Sunday night! EdTechWeekly Links…
Interested in following along and participating in the Open Ed conversation this week? Grab your PDF reader and download the file Open Educational Practices and Resources by the Open eLearning Content Observatory Services. Also, don’t forget to update your feedreader with blogs of the class participants found in the latest OPML file located on the…
This week's reading for Introduction to Open Education is a May 2007 report entitled Giving Knowledge for Free – The Emergence of Open Educational Resources. It is a 140+ page summary of a recent project by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to study the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. The project's web…
Join us at EdTechWeekly on Sunday nights at 7:00 p.m. ET on the EdTechTalk.com channel of the WorldBridges network. Here are the links we will be discussing during this week’s live webcast. Feel free to add your suggestions by adding a del.icio.us tag of “for:edtechtalk” to your favorite links. See you Sunday night! EdTechWeekly Links…
Note: The following reflection is based on the readings and discussions being conducted during Week 1 of the Introduction to OpenEd course. In your opinion, is the "right to education" a basic human right? Why or why not? In your opinion, is open *access* to free, high-quality educational opportunity sufficient, or is it necessary to…
As noted in an earlier post , I will be using this blog to host my reflections in my OpenEd class. For those in the class who only want to get a feed of the OpenEd content, here is the RSS feed for my OpenEd tag only. I have also attached an OPML file of…
Bad first day back to school for On-cursed … Technorati Tags: lms, sakai
Today is back to school Monday for me (and for many here in the US). Just wanted to point to an Introduction to Open Education course I am taking from Dr. David Wiley at Utah State University. As a participant in the course, I will be posting regularly on this blog to reflect upon the…
To all the 40+ edtech chicks out there, go get your ANNUAL mammogram. I got my annual screen today and want to remind my edtech sisters to make that appointment. It isn’t my favorite experience, but a heck of a lot better than the head in the sand altenative! Squish, squish and you’re outta there…