http://www.k12opened.com/blog A blog for reflecting on the opportunities and challenges in open education Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:32:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The P2PU School of Ed is happy to announce a new round of free, open-licensed professional learning groups for educators that will start March 5. These courses are available for sign-up now: Student Grant Writing – A group for high school teachers and students interested in writing a grant to fund ... http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/944 This week Utah announced a major initiative to use open textbooks in K-12, thanks to the efforts of Dr. David Wiley. This move is significant for a number of reasons. It saves money. This isn't trivial in these times of budget crisis and cutbacks. Less money spent on instructional materials can mean ... http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/937 The pilot phase of the P2PU School of Ed was completed in December, and we are now on to 2012! For more information, you can sign up here for periodic updates. What We're Planning for 2012 We are planning two new launches of courses for 2012: Spring courses beginning March 5 (to coincide ... http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/924 This is an article about the benefits of sharing under Creative Commons licenses, originally published in ISTE's Learning and Leading with Technology. by Karen Fasimpaur This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. (printable pdf version of this article) Good citizenship is not just about things that participants in a ... http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/916 This is a guest post from Harry Brake, an Assistant Librarian and Media Specialist at the American School Foundation in Mexico City. Harry participated in two P2PU courses this year. He is also a NaNoWriMo winner for 2011. Spending more time with students out of the classroom in Delaware as an ... http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/888 Here's an article I wrote for OnCUE, CUE's journal, about building online and blended learning environments using free, open resources. The article itself is open-licensed so feel free to redistribute if you like. http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/884 The Global Education Conference is a fantastic free, online event going on all this week. On Thursday, Nov. 17 at 11:00am Eastern Standard Time, Anna and Chris Batchelder and I will be presenting a session on the P2PU School of Ed. You can tune in to our session here on Thurs. Hope ... http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/879 I've mostly been too consumed with the pilot of the P2PU School of Ed to think much about what comes next, but here are two interesting things that have bubbled to the surface. First, the idea to remix an open math textbook into an interactive Moodle course (and perhaps more) has ... http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/872 Here's a short presentation on some of the best sources for open-licensed clip art, photos, sound effects, music, and video that I did for our P2PU course on OER in the classroom. [iframe: src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/31256209?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="265" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen] http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/867 FreeReading is a great site for all kinds of early literacy resources. One of my favorite parts is the decodable reading passages. Unfortunately, to date, these have only been available as pdf files. Pdfs are good for printing, but not much good for other uses, like putting on mobile devices, interacting ... http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/854