Allow me to introduce Valerie Taylor, an energetic volunteer who has just joined the Replace Textbooks project and this mailing list. We have been discussing software that we could use for cataloging OERs in order to help teachers choose appropriate materials. This would cover not just our work, but that of a multitude of other organizations and individuals.
I will let Valerie tell you whatever she chooses about herself, because I don't know. ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: OERs and cataloging From: "Valerie Taylor" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, May 9, 2011 9:25 am To: [email protected] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A couple more thoughts... Activities pages have a share using Delicious - is it free and open enough to use as part of an interim solution? There are lots of tools and APIs for Delicious. --I know almost nothing about Delicious. Anybody? In addition to reviews and categories, having subscriptions is a good way to get the word out. Diigo has this built in. The automatic gathering up of newly identified and/or reviewed entries into an email "newsletter" that is sent to subscribers is nice, especially if the subscriber maintenance is mostly automated. --Yes. Another automation of links / reviews / commentary > subscription newsletter http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm As I understand it, his software gRSShopper does a lot of the work - other than the monumental task of reviewing post, articles, software and writing 5-10 reviews every single day for years http://grsshopper.downes.ca/description.htm He said he limits his comments to about 100 words - seems to be a reasonable guideline. Using something like this to get people to suggest / review OERs and/or provide high-level overviews of Activity uses would create a network effect - what can I do? what is there to do? --Lots. :) -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
