Re: [WikiEducator] Abridged summary of wikieducator@googlegroups.com - 1 update in 1 topic

[Valerie Taylor]

DeAnza College funded the development of a course called Digital
Learning Literacties.
http://wikieducator.org/User:Vtaylor/Learning_literacies

The Digital Learning Literacies course not offered as a stand-alone
course. The activities and resources are used within other courses
with great results.

We have been surprised by the feedback. Our students live, work and
study in the heart of Silicon Valley, California, and yet, many have
little or no prior knowledge or experience with many of the concepts
and tools. For many, the notion of a Personal Learning Network (PLN)
is an abstract concept.

The course resources are update continuously - great app smashing
thanks to Jim Tittsler. As new resources are identified by the
instructors and students, they are bookmarked and tagged in diigo.
With the clever little one liner in WikiEducator, the most recent
items in the diigo rss feed get plopped into the resources page list!
Older, less appropriate resources are removed based on student
recommendations. Great critical thinking activities.

The proposed outline for the Learning in a Digital Age course
specifically addresses many of the same issues that we cover as
objectives. Looking forward to seeing this course develop as it will
provide the broader framework for taking more personal responsibility
for learning now and in the future.



On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 9:53 PM,   wrote:
> wikieducator@googlegroups.com Google Groups
> Crowdsourcing topics for new 1st year course: Learning in a Digital Age
> Wayne Mackintosh : Apr 29 11:02PM +1200
>

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[WikiEducator] Professional Development for STEM

[Valerie Taylor]

I volunteer with the New Smyrna Beach Boys  Girls Club. We have been
awarded a NASA Summer of Innovation mini-award.
http://www.soi-mini-awards.com/

Over the next 8 weeks we will be doing hands-on STEM activities with the
middle school kids (going into grades 5-9). We will be recording the
activities - pictures, drawings, and having kids blog about their ideas.

As part of our proposal, we want to provide professional development
workshops for other educators - teachers, parents, community volunteers,...
As most of the material is available online, we can extend our educator
workshop to the virtual community through WikiEducator. This will be a
Professional Learning Community or Network. We are working out the details
now, and would love to hear from you.

Do you teach STEM to middle school kids? Are you interested in
participating in a virtual workshop? What can we provide to help you in
your teaching and learning? How would you like to participate?

We are planning to use
* Google Groups - email updates, notification
* WikiEducator - activities, schedule, links to resources, teaching ideas

Still thinking about how to have discussions - Twitter, discussion forum,
WE Talk, links to participant blog posts, ?? we are open to suggestions.

We will be starting in the next week or so. Please join us on this
adventure.

..Valerie

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[WikiEducator] Fwd: You Tube applications and OER use?

[Valerie Taylor]

Jim is doing some great work on Math resources.

He has a question that I'm hoping someone else can answer better than I can.


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From: Jim Kelly k-12m...@sbcglobal.net
Date: Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 2:08 PM
Subject: You Tube applications and OER use?
To: Valerie Taylor vtay...@gmail.com


 Is a You Tube math demonstration like KhanAcademy.org’s lesson on
subtraction of whole numbershttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNqG4ChKShI
  considered an OER resource?


Since CK-12 changed the content under the URL links that it used for the
2010 6th – 11th grade materials to “create” its 2012 materials, I will need
to redo all the links in http://www.K-12math.info . At the same time it
might be a good idea to keep track of the distribution of Khan (or James
Sousa ) materials.


Appreciate your thoughts. Thanks.


jim kelly

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[WikiEducator] BYOD Bring Your Own Device working group?

[Valerie Taylor]

Perhaps now would be a good time to set up a BYOD Bring Your Own
Device working group to address using mobile, personal and pocket
devices in open learning.

I'm looking into smartphones and tablets in education. I teach at a
community college and I am working with a K-8 science and technology
school, so that pretty much covers the education spectrum. I see kids
with these wonderful learning environments in their pockets at school
and everywhere they go. I want them used as much for learning as they
are for entertainment. Sooo much potential! Now if we can just figure
out how to make it happen...

There are plenty of challenges but that's what WE are good at!
WikiEducators are a very resourceful lot so collaboration on this
topic seems like a natural thing to do.

With over 650,000 apps out there finding the good ones is a big job.
Figuring out how best to use these devices to support learning is
really interesting and important.

Are you working on specific projects? Have you resources, lists,
information that you would be willing to share? Have you prepared
guides, tutorials for students and/or faculty? Have you thoughts,
ideas about pedagogy that we are going to need to think about?

Perhaps there is an opportunity to compare notes and/or pool
resources. I'm open to suggestions.

..Valerie

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[WikiEducator] Apple does eTextbooks

[Valerie Taylor]

This was announce by Apple yesterday January 19.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/19/apple-textbook-event/

How will this impact WikiEducator and Open Textbooks?

If the major publishers are getting involved at the outset, perhaps
they think some money via Apple is better than no money and no
control. But this is just the beginning.

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[WikiEducator] Apple does eTextbooks

[Valerie Taylor]

Here is a post from the folks on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) list.
Their concerns are similar about content, and different as there are
non-Apple hardware concerns / considerations as well.


Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:19:31 +
From: Aaron Baca ab...@partnerasp.com
To: olpc-o...@lists.laptop.org olpc-o...@lists.laptop.org

Subject: [Olpc-open] E-Textbooks good, now is a time to speak


As many here are aware, Apple has made recent annoucements regarding
e-Book textbook initiatives.  I urge the OLPC community to act quickly
with respect to this matter.  I feel that e-Book textbooks can be a
great source of knowledge for the OLPC project to give to developing
nations.  The issues though, I feel the OLPC community could uniquely
address.

1) Apple's EULA for publishers requires books authored with their
software remain distributed ONLY via Apple channels.  Hopefully
officials at OLPC have some contacts with the US FTC (Federal Trade
Commission) which can begin steps to remove such restrictions, such
that publishers could donate professionally produced materials to the
OLPC project, as well as private citizens making donations of licensed
materials.

It should be noted that Apple uses the ePub open format wrapped in
their Fairplay DRM.  Essentially, publishing e-books created with the
Apple software to other platforms only requires the removal of the
wrapper, and if necessary, the addition of a new one.  Content would
remain 100% usable with capable reading software.

2) OLPC is at an interesting juncture where the pricing of their
devices as well as the rugged qualities thereof better meets the needs
of school systems in the US as well as the rest of the world.  This
presents an enormous opportunity for a device such as the XO-3 tablet
to not just get more widespread recognition, but for partnerships with
better funded US school districts to be formed.  Such partnerships
would allow wider production of the XO-3 and other models as well as
well as create large bulk orders of devices with matching hardware
donations to developing nations.

3) OLPC as a charity organization enjoys positive press such that if
the community and it's leaders spoke out about iBooks and other
proprietary Apple practices which affect education, their voice would
carry stronger political and social weight.  The benefits would not
only be to OLPC, but would trickle down to other platforms and greater
openness of information and knowledge.  Such a movement could also be
leveraged equally against publishers who ransom knowledge at the
highest margin they can accomplish.

The idea of e-book textbooks is nothing new, but if there is to be a
significant scale revolution to the use of e-books in the classroom,
everyone should be included.

I have also copied Jimmy Wales on this correspondence, as I hope some
of this message coicides with his ideals at Wikia.

I appreciate your time,
Aaron Baca


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[WikiEducator] Accredited Online Colleges

[Valerie Taylor]

http://www.accreditedonlinecolleges.net/

I just heard about this - is anyone familiar with the group? Does your
institution participate?

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