First, I want to share a really cool presentation tool that a co-worker passed on to me recently. For a while now, I’ve been very much into finding ways to create engaging presentations and workshops, and this new tool is the latest addition to my kit. Here’s a presentation I gave at the end of … Continue reading
This article cross-posted from the Creative Commons blog, link here An Education Sprint The future of Open is a dynamic landscape, ripe with opportunities to increase civic engagement, literacy, and innovation. Towards this goal, the Science Program at Creative Commons is teaming up with the Open Knowledge Foundation and members of the Open Science Community … Continue reading
…nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people. -Mark Twain, 1867 Recap The last three months have gone by so quickly, I’ve barely had the chance to stop and breathe. This is not to say that the next few … Continue reading
No Surprise The world is getting younger, in terms of young people that make up our 6.9 billion-person population. I’ve seen figures estimating that nearly 1/3 of the world’s population is under the age of 15. The number of youth who will be entering college or skills-training courses, and inherently producing the very content that … Continue reading
Scrolling through my social media feeds, I stumbled across a Google+ post shared with me asking how I was able to attach a Creative Commons license to my blog. I am stoked (yes, I said stoked) to see more people looking into alternative forms of copyright that allow increased sharing, remixing, and collaborating far beyond … Continue reading
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