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Especially check out the 'A Look At Open Video' which I worked on
together with xm:labs. <br>
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If you are interested in open video and making an update of the
course please get in touch with me as we are making plans to do this
in April. The original of the course to make updats on is here -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://booki.flossmanuals.net/a-look-at-open-video/_edit/">http://booki.flossmanuals.net/a-look-at-open-video/_edit/</a><br>
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nice one - Mick<br>
<h1>Welcome to the School of Open, Class of 2013</h1>
<h4>Jane Park, March 11th, 2013</h4>
<p>Happy <a href="http://openeducationweek.org/" target="_blank">Open
Education Week</a>! We are happy to announce that the School of
Open community has launched its <a
href="http://schoolofopen.org/" target="_blank">first set of
courses</a>…</p>
<p style="text-align:center"><a
href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179890962/in/photostream/"
target="_blank"><img
src="cid:part3.02020303.02020901@flossmanuals.net" alt=""
border="0"></a><br>
<small><span></span> <span>The Library of Congress</span> / <a
href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html#noknown"
target="_blank">No known copyright restrictions</a><br>
</small></p>
<h3>Sign up for these facilitated courses</h3>
<p> this week (sign-up will remain open through Sunday, March 17).
These courses will start the week of March 18 (next week!). To
sign up, simply click the “Start Course” button under the course’s
menu navigation on the left.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Copyright 4 Educators (US)</strong> – <a
href="https://p2pu.org/en/courses/147/copyright-for-educators-us/"
target="_blank">Sign up</a> if you’re an educator who wants to
learn about US copyright law in the education context.</li>
<li><strong>Copyright 4 Educators (AUS)</strong> – <a
href="https://p2pu.org/en/courses/111/copyright-4-educators-aus/"
target="_blank">Sign up</a> if you’re an educator who wants to
learn about Australian copyright, statutory licenses and open
educational resources (OER).</li>
<li><strong>Creative Commons for K-12 Educators</strong> – <a
href="https://p2pu.org/en/courses/9/creative-commons-for-k-12-educators/"
target="_blank">Sign up</a> if you’re a K-12 educator
(anywhere in the world) who wants to learn how to find and adapt
free, useful resources for your classroom, and incorporate
activities that teach your students digital world skills.</li>
<li><strong>Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond</strong>
– <a
href="https://p2pu.org/en/courses/49/writing-wikipedia-articles-the-basics-and-beyond/"
target="_blank">Sign up</a> if you want to learn how to edit
Wikipedia or improve your editing skills — especially if you are
interested in and knowledgeable about open educational resources
(OER) (however, no background in this area is required).</li>
</ul>
<h3>All other courses are now ready for you to take</h3>
<p> at any time, with or without your peers. They include:</p>
<ul>
<li> <strong><a
href="https://p2pu.org/en/courses/3/get-a-cc-license-put-it-on-your-website/"
target="_blank">Get a CC license. Put it on your website</a></strong>
– This course is exactly what the title says: it will help you
with the steps of getting a CC license and putting it on your
work. It’s tailored to websites, although the same steps apply
to most other works.</li>
<li> <strong><a
href="https://p2pu.org/en/courses/5/open-science-an-introduction/"
target="_blank">Open Science: An Introduction</a></strong> –
This course is a collaborative learning environment meant to
introduce the idea of Open Science to young scientists,
academics, and makers of all kinds. Open Science is a tricky
thing to define, but we’ve designed this course to share what we
know about it, working as a community to make this open resource
better.</li>
<li> <strong><a href="https://p2pu.org/nl/groups/open-glam/"
target="_blank">Open data for GLAMs</a></strong> (Galleries,
Libraries, Archives, Museums) – This course is for professionals
in cultural institutions who are interested in opening up their
data as open culture data. It will guide you through the
different steps towards open data and provide you with extensive
background information on how to handle copyright and other
possible issues.</li>
<li> <strong><a
href="https://p2pu.org/en/courses/140/intro-to-openness-in-education/"
target="_blank">Intro to Openness in Education</a></strong>
– This is an introductory course exploring the history and
impacts of openness in education. The main goal of the course is
to give you a broad but shallow grounding in the primary areas
of work in the field of open education.</li>
<li> <strong><a
href="https://p2pu.org/en/groups/a-look-at-open-video/"
target="_blank">A Look at Open Video</a></strong> – This
course will give you a quick overview of some of the issues,
tools and areas of interest in the area of open video. It is
aimed at students interested in developing software, video
journalists, editors and all users of video who want to take
their knowledge further.</li>
<li> <strong><a
href="https://p2pu.org/en/groups/contributing-to-wikimedia-commons/"
target="_blank">Contributing to Wikimedia Commons</a></strong>
– A sister project of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons is a
repository of openly licensed images that people all over the
world use and contribute to. This challenge gets you acquainted
with uploading your works to the commons.</li>
<li> <strong><a
href="http://beta.p2pu.org/en/courses/8/open-detective/"
target="_blank">Open Detective</a></strong> – This course
will help you explore the scale of open to non-open content and
how to tell the difference.</li>
</ul>
<p>And more… check out all the courses at <a
href="http://schoolofopen.org/" target="_blank">http://schoolofopen.org/</a>.</p>
<h3>Join a launch event this week</h3>
<p style="text-align:center"><a
href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/p2puniversity/8550419058/in/set-72157632976395960/"
target="_blank"><img
src="cid:part18.07040107.01020505@flossmanuals.net" alt=""
border="0"></a><br>
<small><a
href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/p2puniversity/8550419058/in/set-72157632976395960/"
target="_blank"><span>School of Open at the Citizen Science
Workshop</span></a> / <span>Levi Simons</span> / <a
rel="xh:license license" href="https://creativecommons.org/="
target="_blank">CC BY</a><br>
</small></p>
<ul>
<li><strong><a
href="http://openeducationweek2013.sched.org/event/f2c34fd5507ea38a9d794e0af8a7bd51?iframe=no&w=900&sidebar=no&bg=no#.UT42HtHfZR5"
target="_blank">P2PU: A Showcase of Open Peer Learning</a>
(Wednesday, March 13)</strong> – Join this webinar to see a
showcase of some of P2PU’s best learning groups spanning topics
from education to open content to programming to Spanish and
more, and learn how you can participate.</li>
<li><strong><a
href="http://www.xmlab.org/events/workshops/openvideosudan/"
target="_blank">Open Video Sudan</a> (all week, March 10-17)</strong>
– Join the Open Video Forum in improving “<a
href="https://p2pu.org/en/groups/a-look-at-open-video/"
target="_blank">A Look at Open Video</a>” and creating new
courses and resources on open video in Sudan.</li>
</ul>
<p>And more events as part of Open Education Week at <a
href="http://www.openeducationweek.org/events-webinars/"
target="_blank">http://www.openeducationweek.<wbr>org/events-webinars/</a>.
</p>
<h3>Spread the word</h3>
<p>Just do these 3 things and call it a day.</p>
<ol>
1. Tweet this:
<blockquote>
<p>#SchoolofOpen has launched! Take free courses on #copyright,
#OER, #openscience & more: <a
href="http://creativecommons.org/?p=37179" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/?p=<wbr>37179</a></p>
</blockquote>
</ol>
<ol>
2. Blog and email this:
<blockquote>
<p>The School of Open has launched! Take a free online course on
copyright, CC licenses, Wikipedia, open science, open culture,
open video formats, and more at <a
href="http://schoolofopen.org/" target="_blank">http://schoolofopen.org/</a>.
Especially check out this course: [link to course of your
choice here]. Read more about the launch at <a
href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/37179"
target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/<wbr>weblog/entry/37179</a>.</p>
</blockquote>
</ol>
<ol>
3. Print out a copy of <a
href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/2/26/School_of_Open_One_pager.pdf"
target="_blank">this pdf</a> and pin it to the bulletin board at
your work, school, or local coffee shop.
</ol>
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