Sunday, September 28, 2008

WIkiEducator Quality Assurance

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I formally announced the first draft of the WikiEducator (WE) featured works in the google group. After a considerable amount of discussion ...
Friday, September 05, 2008

Should twitter based spammers be called spitters

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Today I become fed up with someone I was following on twitter. I started following them and the tweets I got were great and full of nuggets ...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Most EduPunks are paid by the establishment

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I have been taken by this EduPunk term . I grew up in the 70's and associated with the music scene of that time. I listened to the Sex ...
Thursday, May 22, 2008

Do bounties work?

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The "work" I am doing with WikiEducator is in trying to fill out the the multimedia resources available for OpenOffice / Ubuntu ...
Thursday, May 08, 2008

ScoPE [SOF2008]

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This looks to be a very good conference; Shaping our Future: Toward a Pan-Canadian E-learning Research Agenda . I look forward to meeting pe...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Nature is a CC-BY-SA

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I just finished reading a classmates post which is titled " The truth according to wikipedia ". Their post embeds a great video ab...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

WEEK 7: Bowen Island, BC, CANADA

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For this weeks activity I took a photo from the window of my house, recorded a short description of the photo using audacity, save the audio...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

WEEK 6: IMHO, Canada is beautiful!

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It never stops to amaze me the number of top quality and creative photos that exist on flickr . All the licenses combined add up to over 65 ...
Tuesday, April 08, 2008

WEEK 5: An Adult Wikimedia?

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The work of the wikimedia foundation is exemplary when it comes to free culture, openness and creating free content. And the relationship am...
Friday, March 28, 2008

WEEK 4: Open Access Assessment and Accreditation

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I found this week postings quite amazing. I found myself very aligned with all that Nichthus said and appreciated the perspective provided ...
Monday, March 24, 2008

Open Access Accreditation

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I want to discuss if people think it is possible to create an international accredited institution that could give me a graduate level deg...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

WEEK 3: Shoulders of Giants

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During this weeks task we had a look at a number of sites / references that set the philosophical foundation for OER. The sites we visited i...
Saturday, March 08, 2008

WEEK 2: Introduction to Wikiversity

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This week we are exploring either LeMill or Wikiversity . We need to set ourselves up to be a contributor to one of these OER sites by creat...
Thursday, March 06, 2008

WEEK 2: Existing OER projects

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I’ve been familiar with all these open education projects for a while; Open University (UK) Open Content Initiative Rice Connexions MIT Open...

OER - Two important and relevant views

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This 2006 stream speaks to what MAY be coming with OER. This more recent 2008 stream that looks at the reality of the sharing we nee...

Models for sustaining OER

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Stephen Downes wrote a good article on approaches to sustaining OER. It's a good read if you have the time. http://ijklo.org/Volume3/IJK...

WEEK 1: Ilkka has created a valuable contribution

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I found this paper by Ilkka filled with a very good description of OER and some very important statements about OER and it influence on edu...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Lawrence Lessig Free Culture Video

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In my opinion this video is an accumulation of Lawrence Lessig's work. It shows his historical depth regarding the issue of freedom and ...

Peter welcomes everyone to composing OER

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Hello all participants, I am very excited about this wikiversity course. I have had an interest in OER and all things open and free for a wh...
Monday, December 31, 2007

Buy only what you NEED

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This is something that has kicked around in my head for many years and i try an practice it every day... This 20 minute flash video explain...