Hello,<div><br></div><div>Sorry about the typo - the correct day is today, March 30th, 9:30pm Eastern US time.</div><div><br clear="all">Cheers,<br>Maria Droujkova<br><br>Make math your own, to make your own math.<br><br> <br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Maria Droujkova <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:droujkova@gmail.com">droujkova@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Join Joel Duffin and Justin Ball, creators of the <a href="http://www.oerglue.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OER Glue platform</a>, in discussing the latest in open course design architecture.<br>
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<h2><a name="12f0378aa494d298_OER Glue-How to join" style="display:inline-block"></a><strong>How to join</strong></h2>
<ul><li>Follow this link at the time of the event: <strong><a href="https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.FCAF787B38E30D58F943EB7232EE27" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/math20event</a></strong></li>
<li>Wednesday, May 30th 2011 we will meet in the LearnCentral online room at 6:30pm Pacific, 9:30pm Eastern time. <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=3&day=30&year=2011&hour=21&min=30&sec=0&p1=207" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WorldClock for your time zone.</a></li>
<li>Click "OK" and "Accept" several times as your browser installs
the software. When you see Elluminate Session Log-In, enter your name
and click the "Login" button</li><li>If this is your first time, come a few minutes earlier to check
out the technology. The room opens half an hour before the event.</li></ul>
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All events in the Math 2.0 weekly series: <a href="http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events" target="_blank">http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events</a><br>
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<h2><a name="12f0378aa494d298_OER Glue-About OER Glue" style="display:inline-block"></a>About OER Glue</h2>
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OER Glue is a <span style="font-size:20px"><strong>uniquely open approach</strong></span>
to online learning that lets content be used where it already resides
rather than requiring it to be copied into a new system. OER Glue can be
used to <span style="font-size:20px"><strong>efficiently assemble courses</strong></span>
and teach online by “glueing together” open education resources (OERs)
and integrating with popular online services including Google Documents,
Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and discussion and assessment tools. OER
Glue’s web browser add-on approach allows it to wrap context and
navigation tools around online content and to <span style="font-size:20px"><strong>integrate content and services from multiple sources in a coherent manner</strong></span>.
In order to ensure that resources remain available, OER Glue integrates
with services such as internet archive. The following scenarios
describe the experience of using OER Glue:<br>
<a href="http://blog.oerglue.com/student-use-of-oer-glue/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Student Use of OER Glue</a> | <a href="http://blog.oerglue.com/teacher-use-of-oer-glue/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Teacher Use of OER Glue</a><br>
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Key aspects of OER Glue are:<br>
<ul><li><strong>Student engagement</strong> – OER Glue increases student
engagement and satisfaction by supporting online instruction that
utilizes timely, authentic content and popular Web 2.0 tools.</li><li><strong>Instructional effectiveness</strong> – OER Glue supports
effective instruction by helping teachers find and develop learning
activities and assessments that are aligned with their instructional
goals.</li><li><strong>Teacher efficiency</strong> – OER Glue helps teachers efficiently assemble, deliver, and update online courses.</li><li><strong>OER</strong> – OER Glue helps authors easily find and adapt relevant high quality free online resources for their courses.</li>
<li><strong>Glue</strong> – People are frustrated with the poor user
experience of existing systems that require you to copy your content
into them, but enthusiastic about the new Web 2.0 tools that continue to
emerge. OER Glue lets you use content where it already is and to easily
integrate third party tools in a coherent manner to teach online.</li></ul>
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<h2><a name="12f0378aa494d298_OER Glue-Event Hosts" style="display:inline-block"></a>Event Hosts</h2>
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<img alt="Joel_Duffin.jpg" title="Joel_Duffin.jpg" align="left"><img alt="justinball.jpg" title="justinball.jpg" align="right"><span><strong>Joel Duffin</strong>, CEO</span>
of OER Glue, is a entrepreneur and software developer with a love for
designing software and understanding how people learn. Joel enjoys
scheming about how to design and leverage software systems and online
content to encourage youth to engage in science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics. <a href="http://www.joelduffin.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Joel blogs</a> about technology and STEM education. <br>
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<span><strong>Justin Ball</strong>, CTO</span> of OER
Glue, is an entrepreneur with several successful startups and one major
failure under his belt. He became involved in the OER space under the
direction of David Wiley at OSLO and then COSL and participated in the
construction of the various projects generated there. He used to write
C++ and .Net then moved to python and finally found Ruby. In the rare
moments when he isn't writing code, talking about code or measuring his
code productivity in profanity per hour, you can find him on his bike in
the mountains or on the roads surrounding Cache Valley. Justin can be
found pontificating at <a href="http://www.justinball.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.justinball.com</a><br><br> <br>
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