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Free and Open Content

January 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I want to consider a distinction between free open source software, and free and open content.  
Teemu Leinonen brings us this picture of the evolution of educational technology:    
Leinonen describes our current state as social software and free and open content. I think we confuse the issue be assuming that all social software is free open source software. [...]

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Tags: educational technology · open systems · social networking · social software

2008 has arrived.

January 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments

Can you believe the technologies available to support and enable learning today? I’m starting this blog, rather fittingly on the first day of a new year, to chronicle my journey through my M.Ed. degree in Educational Communications and Technology. I have been working in technology for 30 years, but only the last nine in K-12 [...]

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Tags: educational technology · open systems · parents · privacy · security