[p2p-research] Fwd: FlossedBk, "Free/Libre and Open Source Solutions for Education" this weekend in Bangkok

Tue Oct 27 09:22:43 CET 2009

Thanks to Ryan for his excellent thoughtpiece, which I'm publishing on
November 5. Sam, I'm adding your comment as well,

(
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/beginning-to-rethink-the-ethics-of-higher-education-in-light-of-p2p/2009/11/05
)

Michel

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wish I could come to it. We're doing some work next month on
> http://socialmediaclassroom.com/ release to bring it to Drupal 6, plus
> I am working on supporting some other tools beyond Drupal (like ELGG,
> Moodle, Wagn, insoshi, and some extensions to all) within coming year.
>
> http://socialmediaclassroom.com/ is a collaborative inquiry based
> learning system (and it is not just software, but also a curriculum
> for collaborative inquiry using face 2 face and social software
> mediums). Many who have been interested in guiding collaborative
> inquiry based learning in the classroom have found both social media
> classroom and the curriculum developed by Howard to be really
> effective and time saving. So,  Social Media Classroom as it is
> currently configured covers a significant amount of emerging needs
> that people simply cannot get out of their current IT departments at
> universities, K-12 edu, etc  Universities and schools are paranoid
> about uncontrolled access. Plus, in University cases, they are more
> focused on "records management" in the US these days, and so this is
> why they are blocking access for educators to the tools they need
>
> I am also interested in how social software can address other learning
> approaches. Learning management systems like moodle seem to cover the
> classic pedagogical approaches.
>
> For instance: Some believe that social network clones like insoshi and
> ELGG are good bases for addressing "Hanging out, messing around,
> geeking out" http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/report needs,
> and they may be right.
>
> The point that I think I am making is that the nature of the type of
> learning going on guides the creation and deployment of supporting
> tools and systems, and I am really starting to see things through this
> lens after experience with Social Media Classroom
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Chris Smith <csmith at csmith.info>
> > Date: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:54 AM
> > Subject: FlossedBk, "Free/Libre and Open Source Solutions for Education"
> > this weekend in Bangkok
> > To: WOICT at googlegroups.com
> >
> >
> >
> > FlossedBk
> > Free & Open Source Solutions for Education -- KIS, Bangkok Oct 31-Nov 1,
> > 2009
> > http://flossedbk.flossed.org/
> >
> > Here is the information quoted from the website ....
> >
> > FlossedBk, "Free/Libre and Open Source Solutions for Education" is a
> two-day
> > gathering of both new and experienced users of FLOSS, Free/Libre, Open
> > Source Software, for education.
> >
> > During the two days, there will workshops on everything from why schools
> > should consider using FLOSS, to what the options are, and how best to
> make
> > the transition, partial and/or full.
> >
> > This is our first conference, but we are calling for representatives of
> as
> > wide a range of needs as possible: teachers and principals, secretaries
> and
> > technicians are invited to share and learn, as well as computing
> teachers,
> > system administrators and programmers
> >
> > All workshops are presented in both Thai and English (with the help of
> > translators). Thus each workshop is listed twice, once in English and
> once
> > in Thai. Sign up for the one in your language to help us plan for
> > translation help.
> >
> > http://flossedbk.flossed.org/
> >
> > Hope of interest .... please pass on to any education colleagues who may
> be
> > interested.
> >
> > Chris
> >
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> > Based in Thailand, working across S.E.Asia
> > The Education Project Asia www.shambles.net
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> > -----------------------------------------------------------
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