OSGeo WikiEd Presentation

Work in progress, expect frequent changes. Help and feedback is welcome. See discussion page.

A Call for Freedom: Desmond Tutu

Check out this video address by Desmond Tutu, to the opening of a Digital Freedom Exposition conference (2007) at the University of the West Cape, South Africa. Pretty inspiring!

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Using WikiEducator

• Video - Creating an Account on WikiEducator (from India with Love)
• Video - Link WikiEducator video on YouTube, Declan McCabe, St. Michael's College ~ Biology in Elementary Schools

Key Principles

• Values of Openness and Freedom - WikiEducator's focus: Free and Open Educational Resources
• Free Cultural Works licence (see: Free Cultural Works Definition, and What is Free Content? (including Essential Freedoms}
• Open Collaboration Model
• Open File Formats

Other

• Projects & Content (re: purpose and organizing)
• Free Wiki Skills Training - Learning4Content
• Free Help Tutorials
• Community Discussion Groups - WikiEducator (on Google)]; Community Media
• History TAB, Revisions & Flagged Revisions) - coming soon
• Testbed for Innovative OS Technologies
  • Kaltura - collaborative editing
  • Print-to-PDF...and soon: to_Open Office
  • Collections
• Community Service Learning
• Community Media node
• Quality & Assurance Review Framework
• Open Community Governance, and upcoming WikiEducator Council Elections
• Monitoring & Evaluation

Partners, etc.

• Commonwealth of Learning, Canada
• Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand
  • Otago Case Study on Terra Incognita Blog (Penn State)
• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation