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TLDR 68

Too Long; Didn't Read Issue 68

Published: 2016-10-21 • 📧 Newsletter

Welcome to issue 68 of the TL;DR Newsletter. In TL;DR I'm synthesizing what I read and learned this week in literacy, technology, and education. Bonjour.

This week we discuss possibilities for opening up your practice.

You can review archives of the newsletter. Alternatively you can also check out TL;DR on Medium. I'm also testing the reposting of these issues after a short delay on LinkedIn to see what happens.

This week I worked on a post for BadgeChain, guidance for online researchers, as well as a series of posts for Stoic Week 2016:

🔖 Key Takeaways

📺 Watch

Incredible video documenting the Airportraits project, a photo series from Mike Kelley. In this project he shot thousands of photos of aircraft taking off and stitched them together to create one composite image. He also used light painting to blend natural and artificial light to create the composite image.

The end result is a series of photos, and one exciting video that documents the possibilities that exist as you play with digital media.

📚 Read

We talk a bit about open and open education here in TL;DR. It can sometimes be a challenge to unpack all of the strands of open and identify how they may work for us.

In this video, Robin DeRosa details everything you'll need to know about open education, open access, open educational resources, and open pedagogy.

This video provides a good primer as you (and your students) move toward open as an attitude.

This post from Alan Levine documents his thought process as he considers, and then starts moving his flickr images to CC0. This is a Creative Commons Zero License, or indicating that your materials are in the public domain. I also recommend reading the responses to Alan's piece from Doug Belshaw and Maha Bali.

I have a series of posts on Creative Commons if you're looking for more guidance on the subject.

My Creative Commons license of choice is CC BY-SA 4.0. This means that I don't care if you use my work, even for commercial purposes...please just give appropriate credit...let people know where you got the ideas from. I also ask that you also share what you create from my work. I do this primarily to share the idea of CC-licensing online, and push the idea of copyright online with my colleagues and students. I will consider moving my license to a CC0 in the future.

Great post from Matt Thompson providing some granular advice about why and how to work in the open. He also recounts some of the challenges involved in the process.

I will take away several key points from Matt's piece.

First, there are several possible goals for open:

Second, there are many "gears" for open. Open is not an on/off switch. It can be viewed as a series of levels of open that progress from closed to open to "shout it from the rooftops."

Post from George Couros identifying and defining ten characteristics he views as crucial for educators now and in the future.

You can read the full definitions for each characteristic on George's post. I think this is important as a heuristic as we consider our own qualities as an educator. It is (perhaps) even more important as we consider how we prepare, develop, and evaluate educators.

A Domain of One's Own (DoOO) is another topic that we talk a lot about here on TL;DR. I'll soon have a column on this topic coming out in JAAL, and with this I'll add a series of interviews to my podcast.

This post by Lee Skallerup Bessette shares a collection of resources and articles on DoOO as well as a list of schools currently experimenting with DoOO. This research informed their earlier post on a brief history of DoOO and an infographic.

Terribly exciting stuff.

🔨 Do

I've recently started using handwritten notes as I journal in a Moleskine for meetings, research, and general ramblings. One of the challenges is that I have a series of notebooks for different purposes. As you search for the "perfect" journal, you'll realize that it doesn't exist. If it does, the price is usually exorbitant for something that you'll (hopefully) fill up in a couple of months.

My current system uses this version of Moleskine, either lined or plain version. I can make my own midori notebook as detailed here and use that to hold everything together. When I'm finished with a journal, I draw something on the cover to remind me of the contents...and then add a new notebook.

By spending the time to create something nice for you to use...I think you'll value it, and your note-taking time even more.

🤔 Consider

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness." — Seneca

This week: possibilities for opening up your practice.

BadgeChain vertical teams open organizational structure, protecting from online harassment Data and Society guidance for researchers, Stoic Week 2016 posts on Seneca Epictetus Marcus Aurelius impressions good life. Airportraits Mike Kelley composite photos - the end result documents possibilities that exist as you play with digital media. Robin DeRosa on open education good primer for moving toward open as attitude. Alan Levine CC0 flickr images - my Creative Commons license of choice is CC BY-SA give appropriate credit share what you create, I will consider moving to CC0 in future. Matt Thompson on how to work open - open is not an on/off switch, viewed as series of levels gears from closed to shout from rooftops. George Couros ten essential educator characteristics relationship builder learner inclusive reflective networked innovator leader storyteller designer artist. Lee Skallerup Bessette DoOO resources and schools experimenting - I'll have column in JAAL and interviews for podcast, terribly exciting stuff. DIY Midori notebook draw something on cover when finished, value note-taking time even more.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

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