Over the last few months, I’ve been drawn towards looking for ways people can create visualizations of data they own that can help them better understand their participation and habits on the Web. In my own research, I’m using a free web-based data visualization tool to understand how grantees of the TACT program are reporting their experience working with OER. The app I’m reference … Continue reading
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
Peer to Peer University (P2PU) and Crowdcrafting are both ways in which we can better leverage the potential of our numbers and make a difference in the world. I’ve been known to evangelize a tool or idea before, but these two are different: they’re as open as it gets. P2PU Last March at the Digital … 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
Billy Meinke 