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Murder, Mayhem and Mystery – Wikipedia in the Classroom
Back in the summer I listened to Brian Lamb from UBC reference an amazing project at his university where students worked on Wikipedia articles and achieved the extremely rare goal of getting ‘featured’ on the homepage (less than 1% of articles manage this.) Today at Drumbeat I was lucky enough to hear about the project…
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The Story So Far..[#drumbeat]
It is now Friday morning and the last full day of the Drumbeat Festival and I thought I’d jot down some general impressions so far. It is certainly unlike any event I have ever been to before; part unconference, part hack day, some elements that feel like a proto-music festival or rave with just a…
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Building an International School of Copyright and Creative Commons with P2PU
At the moment there is a P2PU course called Copyright for Educators running in the US, South Africa and Oz and this session was about identifying ways of taking that course to the wider community considering all the differences from one jurisdiction to another. Currently the course is based around 3 case studies taken over…
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Open Discovery at the Open Content Studio [#drumbeat]
After the inspiring opening keynotes and a bit of shuffling around and organizing of rooms I found myself in the Open Content studio hidden away around the back of MACBA. The advertised Open Textbook hacking didn’t really materialise – instead there was a conversation about OER/OCW findability with representatives of Creative Commons, OCWC, Connexions and…
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Bathcamp 3 – The Tweed Knight
Yesterday I attended the third Bathcamp barcamp. This year it had returned to the Chapel Arts venue in the city centre rather than the departure to literally camping like last year in the middle of nowhere! It was also organised by the tweed-tastic Mr Julian Cheal this year – with Mike Ellis taking an advisory…
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