http://www.k12opened.com/blog A blog for reflecting on the opportunities and challenges in open education Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:20:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en COSN has published a new report that includes a chapter called "Creative Commons and Open Content: What K-12 Schools Need to Know." It' s a good concise discussion of the relevant issues. http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/93 I had a weird experience today. I was at NECC, sitting at the back of a big room waiting for a session to start. It was on open content, something I am very passionate about and am always looking for new information and perspectives on. The time of the presentation came ... http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/92 In working on the kids open dictionary, I expected to find out a lot of interesting things. (This is one of the things I love about working in education.) Here's one that came up today. Our eating habits have changed enormously in the last 80 or so years. These are ... http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/90 The Kids Open Dictionary builder is now live! Please try it out and enter a word or two. Whatever you do doesn't have to be perfect; others will jump in and refine as we go. In case you missed it, this is the first completely open, public domain-licensed dictionary designed with kids ... http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/88 I've been thinking a lot about how to record information about an image's license, attribution, etc. In the past, I have used not-very-efficient techniques such as recording this info separately in a text file and sometimes trying to include it in the file name. A friend recently recommended storing this in ... http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/86 I am facilitating a series of hands-on workshops to help educators to learn about the value of OER. What topics do you think are most important to spread this movement? Licensing issues? Available resources? Wiki editing skills? Open source tools? http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/84 We've released the beta of the kids dictionary builder. Yay! The tool is a sort of combined database and wiki, with functionality to "freeze" final definitions at some point and output the actual dictionary in a variety of formats (ebook, web, PDF, etc.). It was written in a combination of ... http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/82 | View | Upload your own Lesson plan http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/81 [This is cross-posted from Mobile Musings. I don't usually cross-post, but I think this is one of my most important posts and learning experiences of the year. I hope every classroom teacher who reads this will incorporate some of this into his/her classroom.] As a part of a project in which ... http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/80 A group at COSL and WikiEducator is working on an OER Handbook for educators. As a part of that, we are looking for stories from educators or learners who have used or created open educational resources. If you or anyone there would be able to contribute a short blurb for ... http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/76