OSGeo WikiEd Presentation

A Call for Freedom: Desmond Tutu
Check out this video address by Desmond Tutu, to the opening of a Digital Freedom Exposition conference (2007) at the University of the West Cape, South Africa. Pretty inspiring!



Using WikiEducator

 * Video - Creating an Account on WikiEducator (from India with Love)
 * Video - Link WikiEducator video on YouTube, Declan McCabe, St. Michael's College ~ Biology in Elementary Schools

Key Principles

 * Values of Openness and Freedom - WikiEducator's focus: Free and Open Educational Resources
 * Free Cultural Works licence (see: Free Cultural Works Definition, and What is Free Content? (including Essential Freedoms}
 * Open Collaboration Model
 * Open File Formats

Other

 * Projects & Content (re: purpose and organizing)
 * Free Wiki Skills Training - Learning4Content
 * Free Help Tutorials
 * Community Discussion Groups - WikiEducator (on Google)]; Community Media
 * History TAB, Revisions & Flagged Revisions) - coming soon
 * Testbed for Innovative OS Technologies
 * Kaltura - collaborative editing
 * Print-to-PDF...and soon: to_Open Office
 * Collections
 * Community Service Learning
 * Community Media node
 * Quality & Assurance Review Framework
 * Open Community Governance, and upcoming WikiEducator Council Elections
 * Monitoring & Evaluation

Partners, etc.

 * Commonwealth of Learning, Canada
 * Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand
 * Otago Case Study on Terra Incognita Blog (Penn State)
 * William and Flora Hewlett Foundation