Exploring open education with Mozilla

This coming week I’ll be starting Mozilla’s open education course as a component of my ongoing professional learning and development with emergent digital pedagogies. From the course objectives:
“The course helps educators develop basic skills in three three broad areas — open licensing, open technology, and open pedagogy — to help them apply ‘open’ in their [...]

Remixing and mashing it up with RIP: A remix manifesto

Last week I taught my class about Creative Commons, Larry Lessig and remix culture. Over the weekend, still feeling inspired by remix culture, I checked out RIP: A remix manifesto:
“RiP: A remix manifesto is an open source documentary about copyright and remix culture. Created over a period of six years, the film features the [...]

Selected readings: 03-22-09

[video] John Seely Brown: Tinkering as a Mode of Knowledge Production
“I am what I create” says John Seely Brown addressing the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching – Stanford.

[publishing] Giving It Away | Cory Doctorow
I’ve been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me [...]

Selected readings: 03-20-2009

Young People and Emerging Digital Services: An Exploratory Survey on Motivations, Perceptions and Acceptance of Risks
young people’s perception of the risks that the new eID technologies may pose and b) young people’s acceptance levels of these risks, and their general motivation and intent regarding the use of these new technologies

Henry Jenkins: History and Fan Studies: [...]