http://openedweb.com/blog Education and Technology Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:54:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/07/10/how-about-a-summer-of-oer/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/07/10/how-about-a-summer-of-oer/#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 23:26:10 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1535 In general, teachers love freebies and actively seek them out. These free things range from blogs to web apps to lesson plans. I’d like to challenge teachers to go beyond just consuming freebies to producing them as well. Teachers create great resources all the time in the course of their practice. We could go a [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/07/10/how-about-a-summer-of-oer/feed/ 2 http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/24/rethinking-cc-licensing/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/24/rethinking-cc-licensing/#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:16:44 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1438 Working with open educational resources (OER) and sharing, I constantly grapple with copyright. I have come to a greater appreciation of explicitly stated licensing. As a consumer of such resources, I often must search, parse, and decipher to determine whether they are OER. This has caused me to reconsider my practices as a content creator. [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/24/rethinking-cc-licensing/feed/ 7 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/07/29/nysed-goal-1-accessible-digital-content/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/07/29/nysed-goal-1-accessible-digital-content/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:01:03 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1319 The NYSED Technology Plan’s first goal addresses digital content: Standards-based, accessible digital content supports all curricula for all learners. Accessible is defined as: content available anywhere, easy to retrieve using multiple technology devices, and content is universally designed. Aligning digital content to the New York State learning standards is how we will ensure quality and relevance [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/07/29/nysed-goal-1-accessible-digital-content/feed/ 3 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/12/creative-commons-licensing/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/12/creative-commons-licensing/#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:15:32 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=781 You may have noticed the new symbols on my sidebar. That’s because I finally woke up and decided to start thinking about copyright issues for my blog and other content that I put on the Internet. I was moved by the NYSCATE conference to consider Creative Commons Licensing. Creative Commons licenses allows creators  to share [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/12/creative-commons-licensing/feed/ 9