Category: OpenEducationResources
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Try Open Source Software Before You Install It
Recently I found myself wanting someplace I could point users to test software without me installing it. Not that I mind a great deal, but sometimes it is just useful to practice or kick the tires. I ran across click2try a “Community site where it’s easy to try Open Source software–for free.” This solved my…
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Open Educational Resources
OER Commons Open Educational Resources are all about sharing. In a brave new world of learning, OER content is made free to use or share, and in some cases, to change and share again, made possible through licensing, so that both teachers and learners can share what they know. Browse and search OER Commons to…
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Fair Use in Today’s Learning Environment
I am catching up for the summer, right before vacation, and reading Bryne’s Free Technology for Teachers, an excellent resource. Check out the full article on Fair Use and the Remix Culture for use in class next year.
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Top Tools for a Free Online Education
Try educating yourself online. Go and check out LifeHacker’s article on the Top 10 Tools for a Free Online Education. You will find a host of things to get started with from them. I have reprinted the article below only in the event it disappears.
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Volunteer at 4th Annual Maker Faire Bay Area
4th Annual Maker Faire Bay Area Re-Make America Following on President Obama’s call to “begin again the work of remaking America”, Maker Faire 2009 will be organized around the theme of Re-Make America. Held in the San Francisco Bay Area on May 30-31, Maker Faire celebrates what President Obama called “the risk takers, the doers,…