Vancouver Day 2 and 3

Sunday: RAIN

Wandered along another part of Commercial Drive.  Supposed to be a carless day, but no, commercialism and realism  has won.

The cars were back on Commercial Drive yesterday, after four weekends of street closings, and Ed Wilkerson of Magnet Hardware is thrilled and relieved.

So is the owner of Café Abruzzo two blocks

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Open Ed Conf: last post

This is the final of the four posts on my topic at OpenEd 2009.  Just for the sake of completness.

Here is my handout/summary. Summary Notes (Word format)

An Approach to the Problems of Personalisation and Context Dependency in Open Educational Resources

We had some initial conversations: how are we going to move ahead in

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Open Ed contribution: it's not all bad news

This is number three in a series.  Some of the things I may not get a chance to share at OpenEd 2009.

These are some of the roadblocks put forward as real or perceived issues by teachers who expressed a keeness to share and to collaborate or work together on resources – or at least

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OpenEd contribution 2: the minuses

This is the second post in a series.  See the previous post.

(perceived ) Barriers to Sharing resources

After some of the conversations, here are some jottings of perceived barriers to sharing resources. I realize there are more types of resources than just written items [such as video, audio and images].

Some of the stated

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