Posts filed under 'Culture of Sharing'
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
While it is widely accepted that life experience which elderly people bring with them is very relevant in senior education, recent research indicates that this is also true for ICT and specifically to design effective learning technologies, methodologies and content for the elderly.
Taking this into account, the APADIS project has initially explored learning technologies to foster group activities instead of individual ones, and strengthen specific social relationships. Social Web 2.0 technologies can play a key role in that.
At the Ágora School of Adult People in La Verneda-St. Martí (Barcelona, Spain), which is based on participation, in fact we have built:
- A virtual gallery based on Yahoo! Flickr, an online photo sharing system, that allows the elderly students to store and browse previously downloaded pictures and to share them with their friends at the school, and with grandchildren and adult children at home, online.
- A blog based on WordPress which enables the elderly to work collaboratively with other students on the same or different projects online.
Both technologies enable old people to demonstrate their ability to use computers to their social circles (namely, their grandchildren who are a source of motivation and adult children, who can play a negative role) by using the Web, which we have found to be one of the most relevant indicators of digital literacy amongst the social networks of elderly people. These technologies also support online group-related educational activities, which are much closer to the elderly than those individually-centred activities fostered by traditional learning methodologies.
More information:
What is APADIS? APADIS is a project funded by the Spanish IMSERSO intended to design and develop an online virtual learning environment using open source technologies that meet the educational needs of elderly people in both online and traditional learning. APADIS builds upon ABE Campus, an online campus for Adult Basic Education, open source (http://www.basicampus.net/), currently being used in a broad array of courses at Âgora. The project is coordinated by CREA, http://www.pcb.ub.es/crea
The paper accepted for publication at the ACM Crossroads, Meeting some educational needs of elderly people in ICT: Two exploratory case studies. by Sergio Sayago, Patricia Santos, Maite Gonzalez, Miriam Arenas, and Laura Lopez, provides more detailed information and analysis. Contact Sergio Sayago at his e-mail address at upf dot es.
Sergio Sayago, Josep Blat and Toni Navarrete. Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)
November 2nd, 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
This week I am participating in an on-line conference organised by JISC in the UK on the use of Web 2.0 for content sharing in learning and teaching. Its an interesting conference. I was much taken by a comment on the Web Forum by George Roberts who said “I am musing as I listen.
We are distributed, listening to someone speak and with whom we largely agree. It is a lunchtime seminar so we eat our sandwiches quietly. The slides are variously beautiful or informative. We share an aside with a colleague. So far so the same. Different: the presenter can see our aside so we censor or heckle with intent. We are online so we multi-task: a little e-mail, a quick f2f chat with a colleague who assumes I am listening to music and therefore interruptable, a comment here, a quick search on Flickr for a May morning image.
My question is whether we are simply using new technology to do what we have always done in the way we have done it? Or, are we doing something new? The distribution is new. What else? Maybe distributed co-presence is enough.”
That has started quite a discussion which I will try to come back to tomorrow.
You can view the slides from my presentation. And here is the audio.
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
No longer is the material used in education kept inside the walls of universities, schools and institutions, but it can be seen (and downloaded) on Internet via the websites of these institutions. More and more material is becoming organised in repositories that gather the information from various sites and improve the chance of finding the stuff we are looking for. Various models of sharing are possible. We propose…
Continue Reading July 3rd, 2006
Creative Commons Organisation provides you with a valid legal text in the jurisdiction of the country you want to allow users to use your work without committing an infringement of the copyright law.
Continue Reading June 29th, 2006
At May 15, 2006 the first “Show-me day” of the Bazaar project took place successfully at University of Cologne. Fourteen teachers were introduced in creating, exchanging and re-using e-learning materials with Open Source software tools. The participants came from schools and institutions for further and vocational training of the Cologne region.
The Show-me day started with an introduction to open content by Carsten Kozianka from the Cologne team. Carsten explained how one can safely copy, modify and redistribute Open Content in combination with its own learning material. Equipped with an own computer and online connection every participant could verify how easy it is to add a creative commons licence to an own image or text file.
The second part of the Show-me day was dedicated to hands-on experience in creating e-learning content. Matthias Kunkel demonstrated how to turn a simple text file into an multimedia-enhanced e-learning module by using OpenOffice with the add-on iLEX and the learning management system ILIAS. At the end of the event Carsten presented how to create and format WIKI pages as an alternative way to create content for educational purposes.
Due to the deep interest of the participants and their wish to continue this exchange of information and experience, the Bazaar team Cologne decided to open an ILIAS stall for all participants of the Show-me day and for all people interested in creating e-learning content with ILIAS.
June 7th, 2006
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