Monthly Archives: March 2007

CC Looking to Hire ED of New “CC Learn” Division

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It’s a much better name than cc.edu:

Creative Commons is seeking an Executive Director for CC Learn, a new division that will focus on education, broadly defined — from kindergarten to graduate school, to lifelong learning. The mission of this new division will be to promote vigorous networks of Open Educational Resources: materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use, modify and re-use for teaching, learning and research.

More details. Too bad that in this day and age the person has to be located in San Fran… Shucks.

CC Looking to Hire ED of New “CC Learn” Division

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It’s a much better name than cc.edu:

Creative Commons is seeking an Executive Director for CC Learn, a new division that will focus on education, broadly defined — from kindergarten to graduate school, to lifelong learning. The mission of this new division will be to promote vigorous networks of Open Educational Resources: materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use, modify and re-use for teaching, learning and research.

More details. Too bad that in this day and age the person has to be located in San Fran… Shucks.

UPDATED: Help Translate eduCommons

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Ever wanted to contribute to the eduCommons project, but don’t write code? No worries! It’s easy to contribute to the eduCommons effort with your language skills! The eduCommons translation files contain a list of English phrases followed by a place for you to type the translated phrase in your language. Here’s an example from the French translation of eduCommons:

msgid “Course Discussion Summary”
msgstr “Résumé de la discussion du cours”

There are five files altogether, and translating them should take a couple of hours. If you have some time you can contribute to the cause, download the eduCommons localization files, have at it, and then email the results back to me at david/dot/wiley/at/gmail/dot/com. If you’re willing, leave a comment letting me know which language you’re working on!

UPDATE: Richard Miller wrote in to tell me about poEdit, software that makes editing the eduCommons (and other Plone) localization files easier. Thanks, Richard!