Next week March 5-10 is the first annual Open Education Week! Open Education Week is a global event that seeks to raise awareness about the benefits of free and open sharing in education, especially Open Educational Resources (OER). OER are
Phonecasting and plagiarism
One of the challenges of Web 2.0 apps is that there are frequent changes to the business models, often resulting in services that were originally free going to a pay-per model or sometimes going away altogether. I understand that everyone
Open-licensed music for your multimedia projects
Engaging your students in creating standards-based projects is a great way to differentiate instruction. But what to do when your students want to rip their favorite CDs to include music in their project? If you are posting the work online,
A passion for content
Some of you may have noticed that through this summer, I’ve been writing a little less on this blog. The reason is that over the past year, I have gotten very involved in the area of Open Education (similar to
Throwing out the textbooks
I presented a keynote a couple weeks ago on Open Education. In talking about the reasons for open ed, I make the following points: We must differentiate instruction if we are going to engage and reach students who have increasingly
The first kids open dictionary
For months, I have been writing about our project to create the first kids open dictionary. I am very excited to unveil the first piece of this: a collaborative, wiki-based dictionary builder. If you have a second, check out the
Kids, copyright, and open content
(This seems like a long post, but it is about one of the most important experiences I’ve had in a classroom in a long while.) As a part of a project in which students are writing poems to be included
Free "copyleft" visual resources
Every day, I am becoming a bigger advocate for copyleft licensing options for content. Copyleft licenses lets the creator maintain ownership (and copyright), while allowing others to share the content under terms specified by the creator. If you are looking
Free audio resources you can use
The next episode of Karen’s Mashups is up, and this is my favorite show so far! In it, I highlight a variety of sources for “copyleft” audio content that can be used free of charge in your own podcasts, movies,
TCPMP video player
TCPMP is a great free mobile audio and video player for Palms that we’ve recommended in the past. You may have noticed that the old web page for the TCPMP hasn’t been up lately. Apparently, like other projects, TCPMP’s CoreCodec