Thank you for your assistance in helping us launch the School of Open! Please see below for multiple (easy) ways you can help.
Gratefully, Cable Cable Green, PhD Director of Global Learning Creative Commons ----------- *(forward from my colleague, Jane Park @ Creative Commons) * Greetings All, As promised <http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/36078>, the School of Open is launching its first set of courses during Open Education Week, *March 11-15, 2013*. This means that all facilitated courses will open for sign-up that week, and all stand-alone courses will be ready to take then or anytime thereafter. The complete list of courses are available at the blog post <http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/36913>, in addition to the list of launch events that are being held around the world in Germany, Kenya, Sudan, the U.S., and on the web. Read more at: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/36913. As part of the School of Open community, here's what you can do to help us launch! Here are 4 simple things you can do to get the word out to as many people as possible and make this launch a success: 1. Tweet this: #SchoolofOpen will launch @openeducationwk (Mar 11-15). Preview courses & get notified: http://creativecommons.org/?p=36913 #OER 2. Blog and email this: The School of Open (http://schoolofopen.org/) is launching during Open Education Week, March 11-15. A community of volunteers from P2PU, Creative Commons, Open.Michigan, and Wikimedia will offer free online courses on copyright, CC licenses, Wikipedia, open science, open data, open video formats, and more. I think you would be interested in the course on *[insert course title here]*. Get notified when it is open for sign-up at http://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open-announce. Read more about the launch at http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/36913. 3. Add and hyperlink the School of Open logo<http://wiki.creativecommons.org/File:School_of_open_logo.png>along with the following blurb to your webpage: [image: school of open logo] <http://schoolofopen.org/> Starting March 11, School of Open is offering free online courses on what “open” means and how it can help you. Learn more at http://schoolofopen.org/ 4. Share/embed this video: YouTube <http://youtu.be/yRbgJzjrE5w> or Vimeo <https://vimeo.com/60035152> 5. Print and hand out copies of this one pager<http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/2/26/School_of_Open_One_pager.pdf>(pdf) For the next two weeks, we are reviewing and finalizing courses for launch. If you want to help with any of that, please join the School of Open discussion list <https://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open> and introduce yourself Until we launch! Jane http://youtu.be/yRbgJzjrE5w -- Jane Park Project Manager <http://creativecommons.org/staff#janepark> Creative Commons the School of Open, a collaboration with P2PU: http://schoolofopen.org/ Like what we do? Donate: https://creativecommons.net/donate/ -- http://schoolofopen.org --- -- Cable Green, PhD Director of Global Learning Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/education http://twitter.com/cgreen Creative Commons turned 10! Please give a birthday gift. https://creativecommons.net/donate -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
