Category: open source
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Let’s build openly licensed, digital curriculum together – but where?
This week I’ll be brainstorming with other Oklahoma educators working on a Race To The Top (RTTT) federal grant application. When it comes to technology integration and STEM, one of the best ideas I can suggest is providing opportunities for teachers to build digital curriculum together. If these online curriculum materials are published on the…
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Do District IT Staff Spout FUD at Macs, Linux, or BYOT Proposals?
School district IT staff can be very closed-minded when it comes to alternative computing platforms. To be fair, however, as HUMAN BEINGS we can all be closed-minded when someone suggests changing fundamental aspects of our daily lives or worldview. photo credit: Amy Mud Pie I frequently visit with teachers who say things like the following:…
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Openness is the only means of doing education
Open education, open educational resources, and open source software should be household names. I just finished watching David Wiley‘s TEDxNYED talk on YouTube via my iPad, and I am inspired as a result. I loved his image of the 2 year old having a tantrum, and comparing that to our tendency as educators and citizens…
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Podcast345: Open Educational Resources (OER) – Iowa 1:1 Institute
As more schools embrace 1:1 learning on a variety of platforms, the importance of digital curriculum will grow. Open Educational Resources (OER) are licensed under terms which permit other educators to both use and (in some cases) remix content to fit the standards, context, and needs of their classrooms. This podcast is a recording of…
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Iowa 1:1 Institute Presentation Resources
These are the presentation resources for the two sessions our Storychasers board members / representatives will be sharing on April 7, 2010, in Des Moines, Iowa, at the CASTLE Iowa 1:1 Institute. Note both sessions are shared as Google Presentations with embedded hyperlinks. OER: Open Educational Resources Storychasing Literacy Technorati Tags: education, i11i, iowa, laptop,…
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Install alternate operating systems and software on a netbook via a USB flash drive
This is a guest blog post by Sherman Nicodemus. This is my fourth post in a series this week on “Moving at the Speed of Creativity.” If you have questions about this post I’ll be glad to answer them via comments here. If you purchase a netbook computer, don’t simply use the pre-installed operating system…
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Unplugging from the Commercial Software Grid: A Strategic Path by Kent Brooks #heartlandconf10
These are my notes from Unplugging from Kent Brooks‘ presentation “Unplugging from the Commercial Software Grid: A Strategic Path” at the 2010 Heartland eLearning Conference hosted by the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The Heartland eLearning conference is on Twitter, has a conference blog, and a…
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Writing Essays and Creating New Games: Things We Should Do on Netbooks
Walter Bender, former president of software and content for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation and founder of Sugar Labs, granted an interview in December 2009 to Wade Roush. Wade’s article is titled, “Sugar Gets Sweeter: Former OLPC Exec Walter Bender on Netbooks, E-books, Blueberry, and Cloudberry.” Bender gave the opening keynote address in…
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Podcast338: Bring Curriculum Alive with SCRATCH by Susan Andrews and Students
This podcast is a recording of Susan Andrews’ presentation, “Bring Curriculum Alive with SCRATCH” at the 2010 METC Conference. The official program description was: Are your students ready to meet 21st Century skills using a fun, simple and free computer programming language to create curriculum related projects? SCRATCH was designed to allow students to use…