Contexts abound ...

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All are challenging ...

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Technology's Promise

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Collaboration

Sharing is fundamental to teaching

Effective Sharing

Open everything ...

o p e n p r o c e s s e s – iterative, transparent and collaborative

o p e n c o p y r ig h t l i c e n c e s – freedom to distribute, adapt and enhance

o p e n s t a n d a r d s – formats that enable the freedoms

o p e n s o u r c e s o f t w a r e – freedom distribute, adapt and enhance

Cape Town Open Education Declaration

Required reading ...

Our Work

Increase the library of openly

shared resources (OERs)

Our Work

Identify innovative and engaging

ways of delivering curriculum

Our Work

Support communities and conduct professional development

A simple introduction to:

Social Media and Blogs

Skills 1 Recap:

Create a gmail account

Create a twitter account

Follow some interesting people

Siyavula's purpose: help you develop an appreciation for blogs and the feedback they get.

Benefit for you: passive consumption of great content and ideas.

What you could have missed since the first talk:

Dan Meyer on principles for engaging Maths instruction

PsyBlog on postures for creative thinking

Tim O'Reilly on African Robotics Network and latest research on risk to sharks

N o ob l ig

a t ion s /

N o pe n a l t ie

s / N o c

h e c k ing

Skills 2 Plan:

Create a Wordpress blog

Theme your blog

Link it to your twitter account

Siyavula's purpose: help you begin to author content and enage with your peers online.

Benefit for you: authoring content distills ideas, feedback drives enhancement and innovation.

Technology & Community & Openness

Dan Meyerwriter, speaker, learner, worker, go-getter

Technology & Community & Openness

Dan Meyerwriter, speaker, learner, worker, go-getter

Technology & Community & Openness

Dan Meyerwriter, speaker, learner, worker, go-getter

But blogging was the cheapest, most risk-free investment I could have made of my personal time into my job. You start by writing down things that are interesting to you, practices you don’t want to forget. And then you start trying new things just so you can blog about them later, picking them apart, and dialoging over them with strangers. Periods of stagnancy in your blogging start to correspond to periods of stagnancy in your teaching. You start to muse on your job when you’re stuck in traffic, in line for groceries, that sort of thing. That transformation has been nothing but good for me and it all began on a free Blogspot blog.

Our ultimate goal:

A community of educators confident and comfortable to author, review and openly share

content online.

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A simple introduction to:

Blogging

Wordpress.com

1

Wordpress.com

Passwords

Long – take a phrase and concatenate it

Complicated – mix CaSe, numb3rs, characters!

Write them DOWN!

Better to write down a hard password than make an easy one ...

Don't (my opinion) ….

Only blog in lists (those posts are done already)

Clutter the page with widgets

Rant

Do ….

Blogging is personal so write sincerely

Keep it simple

Develop your own style

Respond to comments

Respect others (even if they don't)

The internet is a dangerous place?

Anonymity

Invisibility

Stop/start communication

Voices in your head

Imaginary world

No police

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