The Call for Papers has been announced for Open Ed 2009! After five years in Logan, UT, the conference moves this year to Vancouver! UBC will be our conference host, and Brian Lamb will be our guide. Additional conference sponsors include the BYU McKay School of Education and BCCampus. This year’s conference will run from August 12-14.
Submit to present something today, and check out this year’s awesome keynote speakers as well!
Writing about how folksonomic approaches can combine with semantic web approaches to give us a less-expensive-best-of-both-worlds was some of the more useful stuff I did while at USU working with COSL. As a play on words, I called the resulting applications “folksemantic,” which became an active research line whose work was originally funded by the Mellon Foundation. Thankfully, Director Brett Shelton and the other folks at COSL are keeping the folksemantic dream alive, as well as several of the projects that were funded under that “brand name.” I received this invitation from COSL today:
Folksemantic is a project to create tools that increase the impact of open education resources by helping people find, filter, collaborate around, and remix them. As part of the project, work is underway to integrate the OCW Finder, OER Recommender, and Luvfoo. Plans are to improve these tools and add collaboration, personalized recommendation, widgets, and publishing features. COSL is holding an online meeting on March 26 to describe the Folksementic project and solict input. See http://oerrecommender.org/mtg to learn more.
If I may say so, the OER Recommender is probably one of the single most valuable pieces of OER technology in existence today. I hope to see you at the online meeting where we can learn where these tools are going next. If I know the COSL folks, they’ll be headed to incredible places…
Heard of ThruYou yet?
Lessig says, “Watch this, and you’ll understand everything and more than what I try to explain in my book [Remix].”
Writing for the Huffington Post, Timothy Karr says, “What ThruYOU tells us is that all bets are off. The DNA of our media system has mutated so completely that it’s only a matter of time before our society changes as well.”
Writing for this blog post, David says – Wow.
I suppose the lawyers will invent a new metric of “copyright violations per second” in order to figure out how to sue Kutiman appropriately. Maybe they already developed this metric for Girl Talk? Fortunately, since most YouTube users aren’t members of the RIAA, I guess the Association won’t be able to sue Kutiman under the terms of a membership contract but without the artists’ explicit permission.
Can you watch this and honestly believe that things haven’t changed?