Irony of ability – how less helps you do more
Just wanted to highlight this interesting article, talking about an English professor at Oklahoma City University who has Lou Gehrig’s disease. She teaches her class via video conference, and of...
View ArticleObserve the operating room – wiki2xml sprint for FOSS textbook
There is a work sprint you might be interested in observing or participating in if you … Use MediaWiki for writing long works and want to see how it is to convert to DocBook XML. Want to know more...
View ArticleA better way to use Wikipedia in the classroom
This is an idea I’ve said in presentations and in person over and over again, about time I give it a home. Where Wikipedia is a useful information source and starting place for deeper exploration...
View ArticleTextbook released – Practical Open Source Software Exploration
After months of work and a last-weekend rush of conversion from MediaWiki to DocBook+Publican, the Teaching Open Source writing team has released version 0.8 of “Practical Open Source Software...
View ArticleNice round-up from Creative Commons of open source way content
Just caught a nice post by Jane Park on the Creative Commons blog about teaching open source software. In the post she highlights three new free and open content works that are for education...
View ArticleMy POSSE in Cali – Professors’ Open Source Summer Experience
Finally! This coming 05 to 09 July we are hosting Professors’ Open Source Summer Experience (POSSE) in Mountain View. And I get to participate as a full instructor in this coolest of programs to come...
View ArticleThree reasons POSSE attracts professors and other educators
College educators, read and pass on the word. POSSE may be the really great experience you’ve been looking for. The groundbreaker that suddenly makes sense and focus out of attending open source...
View ArticlePOSSE Cali schedule updated – now 06 to 10 July
Although a bit late in the game, we decided to move our POSSE forward by a day. This is to keep us from running against the July 4th weekend. We cooked up a poster and information packet you can read,...
View ArticleLooking for writers for Teaching Open Source textbook
Hey! Do you want to help us write the next version of the first textbook that teaches open source participation? We need writers, editors, reviewers, and researchers to find or create content on:...
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First fall textbook sprint
This Monday 8 November from 1600 to 2200 UTC we’ll be having the first writing sprint for the next version of the Practical Open Source Software Exploration textbook. Anyone interested in helping or...
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