rtsp://barboursville.ed.usu.edu/oslo.sdp in your QuickTime player Also, jump on chat and send in your questions. iChat as educommons@mac.com or MSN as educommons@hotmail.com

Below is the rest of the info for the Friday meetings. We will spend the majority of the meeting on OLS, our MIT/OCW partnership. The Quicktime stream will be available at rtsp://barboursville.ed.usu.edu/oslo.sdp starting around 9:00am MST. I will be logged into iChat as educommons@mac.com and into MSN as educommons@hotmail.com to facilitate question asking by folks at a distance. If you need some other chat client, please let me know ASAP! Agenda below. ...

Due to the great response we had with people wanting to attend the meetings we’re holding this Friday, we will be broadcasting the meetings live via QuickTime. You can watch and listen to the meetings from the comfort of your own office and drop questions / comments to the moderator via iChat (or other IM) who will bring them up for discussion in the group. If you intend on participating, please drop a comment below and let me know what IM client you’ll be using so we can prepare appropriately. Preparatory documents will be available Wednesday.

There’s been some downtime with the blogs over the weekend. I’m sorry to everyone for the delay in service. We suffered a severe hard drive failure which has caused me to migrate everything to a new server. However, reusability.org blogs should all be working again now. If you have any problems, please let me know. (PS, if you’ve emailed me anything important in the last 5 days, you should do it again!)

In three parts: First, what are OLS and EduCommons? Second, what is the status of the projects? And third, what is the purpose of the January meetings? ...

We’ve been talking for months about having a meeting to get people with vested interests in Open Learning Support and EduCommons together to talk requirements. We’re now ready to hold these meetings and want to do it during the last week of January. However, we want to hear from people before the specific dates are fixed. Would those interested in coming prefer M-W or W-F? Please let me know in the comments below if you intend on coming and what days you prefer. We’ll be sending out an agenda and preliminary documents for your plane reading pleasure the week before the meetings. ...

Many individuals and institutions are now teaching online. Many instructors have tried to do “the responsible thing” and use “proven, battle-tested” classroom teaching methods in their online courses. And at first this seems the only ethical, responsible thing to do… ...

Over the holiday break, which has been absolutely fabulous, my son David Enoch and I built our first igloo. It was a blast, and we’re looking forward to getting a couple more shots at igloo building before winter’s over.

So I had to move the announcements, but the advertisements for our two full-time software engineers are back online, now at “http://oslo.usu.edu/jobs.html":http://oslo.usu.edu/jobs.html

Here are the results of the survey on “what would ‘free for educational use’ mean to you?” There were fifteen (15) responses I could interpret. I did not respond. I counted answers like “possibly” as a yes vote, and those like “probably not” as a no vote. If you care to, you can check the data from the comments and trackback section of my blog. Spoiler: we’re back to where we started. ...