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Once Reviled in Education, Wikipedia Now Embraced By Many Professors

Edsurge

In fact, you definitely will find spotty quality. I hear more often these days about teaching with free online materials instead of traditional textbooks (known as OER). The OER conversation is very energized right now, and it's a complex conversation. I tend to focus on aspects of OER depending on the audience.

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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. Social media curation efforts can help us fuel participatory culture as we build and connect communities. Curating OER. Clearly, curation is not only about OER.

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ISTE Librarians’ Takeaways (Crowdsourced)

NeverEndingSearch

I was honored to join several esteemed colleagues to present on the panel: Leading the Charge: Leveraging Librarian Leadership to Support the OER Journey. And here is the sketchnote Margaret Sisler created during the session: #oer and teacher librarians! This year, I created an elective, Social Justice through Social Media.

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When an Edutechie's mind won't shut down.

Tech Helpful

There is such a great wealth of teaching ideas and strategies out there for us on social media but we have a responsibility to curate that information. Try accessing OER options like www.ck12.org, Technology definitely can add some depth to your lessons but there is a need to be intentional in it's use.

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Next Week's "Sustainability in Libraries" Mini-Conference and Schedule #library20 #sustainabilityinlibraries

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This mini-conference will center on the concept of "Sustainable Thinking" which aligns the core values of libraries with the "Triple Bottom Line" definition of sustainability--i.e. the intersection of environmental stewardship, social equity, and economic feasibility--to inspire investment and build support for your library in the future.

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10Q: Martin Weller - the battle for open

Learning with 'e's

blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. I think the hype is definitely over. social media developments of the late 00s this was quite small scale. I''ve stayed in it because it changes a lot and there are always new developments, eg I''ve been through VLEs, web 2.0,

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"Sustainability in Libraries" - Accepted Sessions Announced for Library 2.0 Mini-Conference #library20 #sustainabilityinlibraries

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This mini-conference will center on the concept of "Sustainable Thinking" which aligns the core values of libraries with the "Triple Bottom Line" definition of sustainability--i.e. the intersection of environmental stewardship, social equity, and economic feasibility--to inspire investment and build support for your library in the future.