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Creative Commons changed its pictogram for Attribution and adjusted the pictogram for Noncommercial to European needs, so Bazaar has been updating their Bazaar Pins set too! See also: Show that you Share.
For those who are not familiar with these pins: to stimulate the sharing and reuse of content, the Bazaar project supports Creative Commons and came up with the idea to wear pins to Show that we Share to conferences, seminars, our Show-me days and every other (non-)Bazaar event. Pinning the ones we find important on our rugsacks and jackets makes showing that we share an everyday thing. And we wear them proudly.
The new Bazaar Pins set:
The ol’ set has now really become a collectors item. The new set will be available at the Bazaar Stand at the Online Educa in Berlin, Germany, next week (November 28-30, 2007).
Every attendee to the free Bazaar Conference on December 14 2007 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, will receive their own Bazaar Pins set, to Show that they Share. For more information on the Bazaar conference, see: Networks, Communities & Learning: Show that you Share!.
We hope to see you there, we hope to see you wear.
November 23rd, 2007
a European Conference
Organised by the Bazaar project and IVLOS, the Institute of Education of Utrecht University
Download the conference flyer here
14 December 2007, Utrecht, the Netherlands
9:30 - 16:00, Boothzaal, Utrecht University Library on the University Campus de Uithof, Heidelberglaan 3
Conference Objectives
- To provide a space for participant-driven discussion and debate
- To promote critical enquiry and discourse
- To allow for the presentation of ideas in progress
- To provide access to peer expertise and opinion
Main Themes
These five main themes are based on key and emergent issues identified by Bazaar
- Hey Dude, Where’s my Data? On data security, privacy and sustainability
- Social Software, Tools and Content Creation
- OERs and the Culture of Sharing
- Interoperability and Metadata and OERs
- PLEs, ePortfolio’s and Informal Learning
Workshops and Round Tables
Social networking services & social search – led by Josie Fraser, EdTechUK, UK
THINKing and UNDERSTANDing the internet – led by Helen Keegan, Salford University, UK
Building an infrastructure for lifelong competence development – led by Wolgang Greller, Open University, NL
Developing Open Educational Resources – led by Marco Kalz, Open University, NL
The use of wikis and open architecture spaces to promote a culture of sharing – led by Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, UK
Creating and sharing Open Educational resources – led by Veronika Hornung, Salzburg Research, AT
Personal Learning Environments – led by Graham Attwell, Pontydysgu, UK
How can we use IMS Learning Design? – led by Raymond Elferink, RayCom BV, NL
The future of Learning Management Systems – led by Geoge Bekiaridis, Ergon KEK, GR
Conference format
The major aim of the conference is to promote dialogue and exchange between ‘experts’, researchers, developers, practitioners and learners. We are particularly keen that learners and junior researchers are given an opportunity to discuss and exchange their ideas. We aim that the content of the sessions is driven and created by the participants rather than the traditional ‘presentation and five minutes questions’ format with content determined in advance by a single organiser, or a small group of organisers.
How will the format work?
The conference will start with a short scoping session. The main space will be for participants.
How the conference works is up to you!
To make the most out of the space available for the conference, the room will be divided into the following six areas, that can be dynamically allocated to one of the conference themes and to one of the following approaches:
- Round table area (1) - for open discussion, meetings, project presentations, requests for comments and so on. This area is a useful space for those in the community that are already progressing with ideas and projects and research to spend face-2-face time discussing and formulating ways forward. This is your space. Feel free to use it as you wish.
- Discourse space (2-5) - we outline here four different kinds of activities that you might like to try:
- The Ten Minute Slot -Ten minute presentations of work and ideas in progress, to be followed by ten minute discussion.
- Critical Enquiry - Present an idea for a project, a software tool etc. and be prepared for a critique from our expert panel (made up of other participants).
- Ask an Expert - Request that someone else introduces on a topic you wish to learn something about.
- Discussion Circle - Introduce a discussion in a maximum of three minutes, each participant gets two minutes to contribute.
- … anything else you would like to do
- Poster time (6) - one area will be available for posters with another ten minute slot for you to explain your poster.
We will leave free spaces for ideas to be presented. If you have ideas already, it would be great if you could send us a short note suggesting the thing you would like to do or present at the conference. We will then add it to the conference web space to be launched shortly as part of the main Bazaar website www.bazaar.org.
The conference is free. Coffee and lunch will be provided for all participants. If you are interested in attending, please register in advance by sending an e-mail to Raymond Elferink - raymond@raycom.com
When registering, please provide us with the following information:
Name:
Organisation:
E-mail:
Website:
- I would like to run a Round Table / Ten Minute Slot / Critical Enquiry session
- I would like to present an idea in a Discussion Circle / Poster Session
- I would like to present a question to an Expert
- I would like to lurk at the conference and might decide to participate there and then
My topic will be:
November 2nd, 2007
We are a bit late with this edition of Sounds of The Bazaar. But to make up for it we have a jam packed bumper edition.
First off I give an update on the development of Open Educational Resources and what I think the major issues are. This follows from discussions at the Hewlett Foundation conference on OERs in Houston, Texas in March.
Web Site of the Month features Cwmglas Primary School in Wales. It is a great site - make sure you check it out. And there is a visitors book to sign to show the students who is visiting their web site.
Continuing the Open Educational Resources theme we feature a short interview with Andrea Mulrenin from Salzburg Research about the OLCOS project on OERs. Salzburg Research has recently published the OLCOS Roadmap 2012 for the further development of Open Educational Practices and Resources. It is a 130KB PDF download and well worth a read.
And then we have an interview with Patrick Mac Andrew form the UK Open University Learning Space project. Learning Space is a fast evolving repository of Open Educational Resources. It also features great tools for free use. Patrick talks about future planned developments with Learning Space.
You can listen to individual items or listen or download the full version. The full version features music by Jampy, an artist from Italy. It contains blues, jazz and also experimental elements. The featured tracks are from Jampy’s album “Nghzk!”.
You find this album and a lot more music published under a Creative Commons licences on the great music site Jamendo.
Many thanks to Dirk Stieglitz who has done the sound engineering on this issue. I think regular listeners will notice the improvement in quality.
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May 12th, 2007
A Show-me-day « Creation of Multimedia Learning Modules form Open Content » was offered by the Cologne Bazaar team at the Edumedia conference in Salzburg, April 16, 2007. The major aim of the workshop was to inform teachers about where open content is already available and how it could be used. While creating their own learning modules the teachers should learn what has to took into consideration when using open content for their own learning material.
15 teachers from four countries attended the workshop.
The « Show-me-day » was hold as a four-hour session. In the first part the participants were introduced to Open Content and what ideas are behind this concept. Manifests and political implications of Open Content were presented, but also about the tension between Open Access and Intellectual Property. The participants learned about popular Open Content licenses like Creative Commons and GNU FDL and how to use these licences for own created content and what has to take into account when using contents of others.
During a second part there was talked about how one could use Open Content for the own teaching. The following tools and resources for finding and sharing contents were presented briefly: Flickr, Internet Archive, Connexions, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, CC Search and CC Directories. Other resources were mentioned as well. For every of the presented tools or resources some minutes were reservered for exploring and trying out. The participants discussed also practices for re-using Open Content and didactical and organisational aspects of the re-use.
In the hands-on-tutorial after a coffee break, teachers created multimedia-enhanced learning module using Open Content found on the Internet. Some teachers have cooperated in groups, others preferred working by their own. One suggestion for the practical work was to create a short module about Open Content for their colleagues. Also a tool for creating the modules was suggested (OpenOffice with eLAIX extension to export a document as multimedia module to the LMS ILIAS). But some teachers preferred to work with their own environment and tools which was accepted as well.
The working atmosphere was very intense and all participants have tried out several tools and resources to find appropriate open content for their modules. During the entire workshop participants could ask for additional information or clarification. Most of the questions raised by the participants were about how marking an open content item with a licence correctly. Several participants asked for the easiest way to find open content lincenced images or textes. Most of the participants were astonished about the variety of resources the might use. But several of the german speaking and teaching participants were disapointed about the small amount of open content in German.
The evaluation of the event showed that open educational resources are not yet that important in daily work for the participants as their own produced materials. The majority of the teachers do not control the property rights of the content they use. And they pay only seldom for copyright. Unfortunately, there is still a lack of knowhow about IPR handling amongst them. But even if the knowledge about open content licences was different, the majority of the participants declared to invest further time to learn more about these licences after the workshop, even if they feel secure or partly secure in using open content licences. So the « Show-me-day » stimulated the participant’s interest in this issue - which can be seen as another step for establishing the use of open educational resources in e-learning.
May 2nd, 2007
To give everybody the opportunity to Show that you Share, Bazaar has created a set of seven pins depicting the Creative Commons pictograms, the Bazaar logo and the Sounds of the Bazaar podcast logo.
No need to tell you all that these are collectors items!
The pins are rapidly becoming mighty populair throughout Europe; read this testimony by Dutch edublogger Pierre Gorissen: http://www.gorissen.info/Pierre/item/2007/3/29/the-bazaar
If you think you too need a set of pins, please let us now why…
April 15th, 2007
With the success of Wikipedia, Open Content has become a popular concept for publishing any kind of creative work like texts or images and allowing to copy and to modify them by anyone. The Bazaar team offers a workshop about Open Content and IPR-handling at the EduMedia conference in Salzburg, Austria, the 16th April of 2007. In this workshop we try to explore the new opportunities offered by Open Content in combination with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for blended and distance learning.
In the first part, we talk about Open Content and which ideas are behind this concept, about the manifests and political implications of Open Content, and also about the tension between Open Access and Intellectual Property Rights. The variety of popular Open Content licenses like Creative Commons and GNU-FDL will be presented. We will show how to use these licences for content created by participants and what has to be taken into account when using Open Content of others.
During the second part, we talk about how authors could use Open Content for their work. Therefore valuable tools and resources for finding and sharing contents (like articles, pictures, audio files etc.) will be presented. And we will analyse and discuss practices for re-using Open Content. Special emphasis will be put on didactical and organisational aspects of the re-use of Open Content.
Finally, in the hands-on-tutorial, we will attempt to build a multimedia-enhanced learning module using Open Content found on the Internet. This will give participants the opportunity to use the different tools and to identify the appropriate presented licences for their content production. For the tutorial we will use OpenOffice as content editor and export these OO-documents to the Open-Source-LMS ILIAS by using the OO-extension eLAIX.
More information about the workshop and the EduMedia conference can be found at the EduMedia web site: http://edumedia.salzburgresearch.at/
April 12th, 2007
The Sounds of the Bazaar March edition has some great features.
‘e-Portfolios in action - the issues’ is based on the work of the European Commission funded MOSEP project.
It features interviews with staff from Wolsingham School in the UK. Wolsingham has developed an e-Portfolio - called an EME - for for Careers development by students.
News from the Bazaar features the forthcoming Bazaar Seminar on Personal Learning Environments in Athens.
This months Bazaar interview is with Helen Keegan from the University of Salford in UK.
Helen is researching the potential of Second Life for learning (although it sounds as if she is also having a lot of fun). And Blog of the month features Helen’s Second Life Blog - called Troubleandslife. Helen says “it’s for fun rather than research (although as times go on the lines will no doubt become increasingly blurred). Pay it a visit - its a great read.
A short quote of Helen’s Blog:
“… MY BUM WAS STUCK!
“Oh the shame… I quickly exited the ride and detached the Zebra avatar, which unfortunately led me back to freaky avatar part 1. At this point I decided to call it a night …”
All the jingles in this issue are produced by Dirk Stieglitz.
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March 7th, 2007
Amongst other activities, the Bazaar project is organising a series of seminars on key and emergent issues in Open Source and Open Content for learning.
These seminars intend to be explorative and participative events and to raise issues for future policy and funding by the European Commission and national Member States.
The first of the seminars – entitled ‘Hey Dude, Where’s my Data?‘ was held in Barcelona in October 2006.
We would like to invite you to the second of the seminars – ‘Social software and web 2: a challenge to the future of schooling?‘ The seminar will be held in Athens on Friday 27 April 2007 (venue to be announced), hosted by Ergon KEK, and will take place between 10:30 and 17:00.
Download the flyer in pdf: Flyer Bazaar Seminar Athens 2007
Seminar Theme: Social software and web 2: a challenge to the future of schooling?
In a recent blog post Rita Kop says: “There is currently a vast array of communications options available on the Internet. Especially young people have grasped the potential offered to them by blogs, web pages and increasingly personal spaces such as ‘My Space’ and ‘youtube’ to make links with like minded people and to invite comments and messages to their postings. The speed in which communities are being formed has surprised most observers. Participants in these developments, though, take them for granted as expressing themselves to the wider world has increasingly become part of their life style.
The education world has not grasped yet the revolution that is taking place outside the class room. The discrepancy in the way technology is being used inside and outside the class room seems to be growing.
The availability of blog and web authoring tools and their ease of use have made that a vast number of people are now engaged in interacting on the Internet. It has created a huge leap forward in moving people on from being consumers to becoming producers of information.
As educators know, the pace of change within institutions is a lot slower than outside the brick walls, which raises questions about the ability of formal education institutions to keep engaged the generation that lives in a technology saturated world and has grown up with technology.”
Personal Learning Environments
At the same time researchers have begun to explore the idea of Personal Learning environments or PLEs. Rather than access a single learning application or a walled institutional learning area, the idea of a PLE is that learners can configure different services and tools to develop their own learning environment, bringing together informal learning from the home, the workplace as well as more formal provision by education institutions. The PLE is controlled by the learner and as well as offering an environment for accessing different information and knowledge allows access to web based publishing and other opportunities for creating content and expressing and exchanging ideas.
The idea behind the PLE is to harness the power and potential of social software and web 2.0 applications for learning.
As Graham Attwell has pointed out PLEs may be a seriously disruptive development, challenging the present model of schooling. The seminar is intended to examine the changing ways in which we are using technology for learning, to look at the potential of Personal Learning Environments and to discuss the implications for the future of our education systems.
This could include (but is not limited to) the following issues:
- Young people are increasingly using social networking sites and social software applications - but are they learning?
- What do the new uses of technology for learning imply for pedagogy and the future role of teachers?
- What is the role of school in the future when more and more learning takes place over the internet?
- How can technology supported informal learning be recognised?
- How disruptive are the new technologies to the education system - is it just a bubble?
- How can Personal Learning Environments be reconciled with the social nature of learning?
- What are the implications of technology supported learning and PLEs for social equity within education?
- What sort of technological infrastructure should the education system be providing for learning?
- If content is increasingly created by teachers and learners and is open for access, how will we guarantee quality?
- Does increasing learner control and autonomy spell the end of centralised curricula?
- Hey dude, where’s my data?
Attending
We would like all participants to prepare a position paper prior to the event.
The paper should be no more than 2 pages A4 and should contain the following type of information:
- Your name and your affiliation (company, university, etc)
- An overview of how you see the current situation regarding the theme of the seminar
- What you see as the key issues at stake and the obstacles to progress
- Your initial thoughts on what needs to be done
- Your initial recommendations, if you have any, for possible actions by the European Commission or national governments in terms of policy and/or actions to be funded
- Web links to reports, studies or other information you feel is worth referencing
We regret no funding is available for travel and accommodation. However we are happy to say we will provide lunch for all those attending!
If you are interested in attending please email Graham Attwell, who will be coordinating this event for the Bazaar project: graham10@mac.com
For more information about the Bazaar project: http://www.bazaar.org
February 25th, 2007
Welcome to the first Sounds of the Bazaar in 2007.
Sorry for the winter break - have been horribly busy. But we are back now - and I have had the very kind offer of technical assistance in producing the programme - so I am more confident of keeping up the monthly schedule. However hard I try to improve the workflow Sounds seems to take about five or six hours to produce and upload - and i guess there is no real way to reduce that other than by more people working on it.
If anyone else would like to contribute to Sounds of the Bazaar just give me a shout.
Anyway, this issue focuses mainly on e-Portfolios.
First up is the by now traditional introduction from me.
This is followed by a exploration of some of the issues involved in developing e-Portfolios - including the question of ownership, difficulties over assessment and the different media to be produced. The main focus of the broadcast is however, the different skills and knowledge needed top develop and maintain an e-Portfolio and how that might be attained.
The following short feature is about the new slang kids in the UK are using to describe older techies and not so techies.
Do you know what am ‘i-screamer’ is? Thanks to Jen Hughes who emailed this contribution and to Owen Grey who came clean with the jargon.
This months interview is with Peter Rees Jones form the UK. Peter works on various e-Portfolio development projects and is also leading the efforts by JISC to develop an e-Portfolio reference model.
Web site of the week features Helen Barrett who describes herself as the grandmother of e-Portfolios. Her web site is called Helen Barrett’s electronic portfolios.
This weeks featured music is called Anna dub style remix and is by cdk.
The music is form a competition on the ccmixter web site. The site says:
“Creative Commons, Modiba Productions and Global Beat Fusion are pleased to present the Vieux Farka Touré / “Ana” Remix Contest. Vieux Farka Touré — a highly talented guitarist, singer, songwriter, and percussionist from Mali — is offering the audio source files from the song “Ana” online under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, so that producers worldwide can use the sounds in remixes and new compositions.” Who knows - I might have a go myself.
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February 5th, 2007
Here is the November 2006 edition of Sounds of the Bazaar. 
I have spent quite a lot of time trying to improve the quality - better editing and better leads in and out of items. I hope you like it - I think this is the best issue so far.
I’m going to aim at a monthly schedule for the next few months and work on the quality - I want Sounds of the Bazaar to be the leading podcast in education.
Anyway in this months issue -
Graham Attwell (that’s me) in the first of a three part special series on Personal Learning Environments. In this part - entitled ‘The Industrial Revolution and the Challenge to Education’ I argue that education systems and institutions are in danger of becoming irrelevant through ignoring the changing ways in which young people are using technology for communication and knowledge sharing. Addtionally, the present curriculum organisation is looking increasingly outdated. PLEs offer a new way to organise education but it will require profound reforms both to systems and institutions.
The Sounds of the Bazaar interview is with Ellen and Lydia - two young school students from the UK. They are pretty disappointed with the use of technology in school. They see the main factor in the digital divide as to whether or not kids have parents who can help them with computers.
Web Site of the Week - features the newly launched ELGG Spaces site which is offering free access to the ELGG social software for groups of up to 50 users.
December sees the third of the annual EduBlog awards. I talk to Josie Fraser about the awards and how you can participate.
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November 19th, 2006
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