[IAEP] [Fwd: Re: OERs and cataloging]

[mokurai at earthtreasury.org]

Allow me to introduce Valerie Taylor, an energetic volunteer who has just
joined the Replace Textbooks project and this mailing list. We have been
discussing software that we could use for cataloging OERs in order to help
teachers choose appropriate materials. This would cover not just our work,
but that of a multitude of other organizations and individuals.

I will let Valerie tell you whatever she chooses about herself, because I
don't know.

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Subject: Re: OERs and cataloging
From:    "Valerie Taylor" <vtaylor at gmail.com>
Date:    Mon, May 9, 2011 9:25 am
To:      mokurai at earthtreasury.org
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A couple more thoughts...

Activities pages have a share using Delicious - is it free and open
enough to use as part of an interim solution? There are lots of tools
and APIs for Delicious.

--I know almost nothing about Delicious. Anybody?

In addition to reviews and categories, having subscriptions is a good
way to get the word out. Diigo has this built in. The automatic
gathering up of newly identified and/or reviewed entries into an email
"newsletter" that is sent to subscribers is nice, especially if the
subscriber maintenance is mostly automated.

--Yes.

Another automation of links / reviews / commentary > subscription newsletter
http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm
As I understand it, his software gRSShopper does a lot of the work -
other than the monumental task of reviewing post, articles, software
and writing 5-10 reviews every single day for years
http://grsshopper.downes.ca/description.htm
He said he limits his comments to about 100 words - seems to be a
reasonable guideline. Using something like this to get people to
suggest / review OERs and/or provide high-level overviews of Activity
uses would create a network effect - what can I do? what is there to
do?

--Lots. :)
-- 
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