It’s Time for the Educational Remix…

It’s time to catch up with some fantastic scholastic chats in #eci831… and there are a few weeks to share. During #eci831 Week 10, Brian Lamb & Scott Leslie discussed their experience in remixing education. In reviewing some inspiring media savants, examples, and ideas for open, remixed educational resources.In a true network environment – the application logic is relied onto the machines and built into the network itself. The open education movement introduced large quantities of formal education resources into the pool of content that can be mashed up and remixed for learners. Networks have evolved to the point where learners are no longer bound by space or time, which allows learners to direct and choose their personal learning environment objectives. There is now a “mashup of learning” medium to best support content knowledge and skill acquisition for learners. The process of remixing education is simply extending the existing concept. Mashing OERs as an Instructor (or DJ) includes this sample DJ workflow applied to education:

Image from Mashing OER Wiki

• Google Coop Engine http://www.google.com/cse/
• Google Marker http://www.google.com/cse/tools/marker
• Advanced Search in Google
• Google images, you can find creative commons pictures.
• Flickr http://www.flickr.com/
• Google images, you can find creative commons pictures.
• http://compfight.com/
• Google Reader
• RSS Feeds
• Blog Rolls
• Delicious Network
• http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/introducing-google-social-search-i.html
• Read Twit http://www.readtwit.com/
• Twitter http://twitter.com/
• Publisher networks http://www.lijit.com/
• Clip Marks http://clipmarks.com/
• Evernote  http://www.evernote.com/ & https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8381
• Feed2Js
• Grazr widget
• Delicious
• Google gadget
• Netvibes widget
• Wiki resources – more browser side manipulation
• Mashup OER Wikihttp://solr.bccampus.ca/wiki/index.php/MashingOER
  [shares many other resources]

More resources that inspire openness & remixing:

• The Work of Art in Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin
• TV Tropes http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
• The Definitive Negativland Essay on Copyright and Art: http://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=11
• Rip! A Remix Manifesto – http://www.ripremix.com/
• The Medium is the Massage – Marshall McLuhan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
• Discover Ed (creative commons) http://discovered.creativecommons.org/search/
• Free Learning http://freelearning.bccampus.ca/
• OER Commons  www.oercommons.org
• Find other learners and follow what they are following
  • Diigo http://www.diigo.com/
  • Delicious http://delicious.com/
  • Trailfire http://trailfire.com/
  • Folksomentic http://www.oerrecommender.org/
  • http://A.nnotate.com/
  • http://www.mystickies.com/