Unconference Pitch Page
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We have one room during the conference which will be set up in a less formal fashion and in which we are inviting people who are interested in convening a discussion or some other activity to have at it there.
Please write a short pitch on your idea. This will help people decide if they want to come
For each submission, please include:
- Name: Jutta Treviranus
- Contact (email)jutta.treviranus@utoronto.ca
- Organization: Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, UofT and UNESCO
- Topic / Your Pitch: Open Source Accessibility Roadmap: Leaders in open source software and leaders in accessibility will be meeting prior to the conference to develop a roadmap for work in the open source domain to make desktop and Web applications including educational applications, development tools, mobile applications and operating systems accessible. This unconference will share the draft roadmap and discuss how this can be coordinated with open education initiatives.
- Preferred date/time for your discussion: Wednesday August 12th - 1:30 to 3:15
- Relevant links : http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Open+Source+Accessibility
- Name: Carolina Rossini
- Contact (email) carolina(dot)rossini(at)gmail(dot)com
- Organization: Open Educational Resources: Challenges and Perspectives - a project supported by the Open Society Institute
- Position: Coordinator of OER-Brazil and fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University
- Topic / Your Pitch: National Policies to foster Open Educational Resources
- Preferred time: any time on Thursday
- Insert here your name, if you want to participate at this OER Policy discussion!!!! :-)
- Name: Erica Frank
- Contact (email): efrank [at] emory [dot] edu
- Organization: Health Sciences Online
- Topic / Your Pitch: The goal of this discussion is to introduce an extraordinary new virtual learning center, Health Sciences Online (HSO), that provides free access to hand-selected medical resources to anyone around the globe. HSO offers users the ability to search a comprehensive collection of top-quality courses and references in medicine, public health, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing, basic sciences, and other health sciences disciplines. Funders and Founding Collaborators include the CDC, NATO, WHO, World Bank, and the World Medical Association. Since the website was launched a few months ago, third party online reviews have called it "in the top 4 health search engines... the internet at its finest... a boon... an incredibly worthwhile enterprise... a model of what health 2.0 and science 2.0 can be..." For more information, please see the Wikipedia entry on HSO, an article in UBC Reports about HSO, and our About HSO page.
- Preferred date/time for your discussion: Thursday, August 13, 1230-130 PM. Would also be glad to meet/follow up during the meeting any time except August 12 from 800-1100 AM.
- Name: Son Vuong, K. Balasubramanian (Bala)
- Contact (email): stvuong [at] gmail.com
- Organization: University of British Columbia, Commonwealth of Learning
- Topic / Your Pitch: Learning through Interactive Voice Educational System (LIVES), a learning tool using mobile phones focused on illiterate/semi-literate students in developing countries
- Preferred date/time for your discussion: Wednesday, August 12, 10:15-11:00 AM. Second option: Thursday, August 13, 2:30-3:15 PM or 3:30-4:15 PM, or Friday, August 14, 10:15-11:00 AM.
- If possible we would like to have one session each day, or one demo in the first day and Q&A sessions in the following sessions.
- Relevant links: http://lives.cs.ubc.ca/
- Name: Son Vuong
- Contact (email): stvuong [at] gmail.com
- Organization: University of British Columbia (UBC)
- Topic / Your Pitch: BlueCT, an interactive response system for learning environments. An alternative to clickers. This tool has been used in a variety of courses in Computer Science at UBC. Focused on both Laptops and cell phones to provide instant feedback and answers from students to the instructor.
- Name: Chris Clarke
- Contact (email): chris [dot] clarke [at] talis [dot] com
- Organization: Talis Group Limited
- Topic / Your Pitch: We are launching a fund to support Open Education projects - formal launch will be Sept 2009. Applicants can submit proposals for grants of between $2-$25,000 USD for projects. Grants can be used to create new tools, perform some research, assemble datasets or submit and present new papers - however all projects should be related to Open Education. All projects must be "open source" in the sense that they donate their IPR back to the community - Talis retains no rights on the output. We would like a session to promote the fund and outline to delegates how to apply.
- Preferred time: Thurs 2:30-3:15 would be ideal. Friday not good as one of our group has to fly back Thurs night.
- Name: Ali Asad Lotia, Pieter Kleymeer, Garin Fons
- Contact: lotia@umich.edu, pkleymee@umich.edu, garin@umich.edu
- Organization: Open.Michigan, University of Michigan.
- Topic: OERca - How I learned to stop worrying and create OER -- We'll discuss the current status and future direction of OERca, a web application for clearing and annotating OER (aka - an efficient way of taking care of copyright issues and adding licenses and metadata to your resources).
- Preferred Time: Wednesday, 3:30 - 4:15pm
- Name: Lila Bailey, Ahrash Bissell, Garin Fons
- Contact: lila [at] creativecommons.org, ahrash [at] creativecommons.org, garin [at] umich.edu
- Organization: ccLearn
- Topic: We will discuss the survey ccLearn has developed in conjunction with Open.Michigan to to gather information regarding the ways in which international copyright issues play a role in, and perhaps act as a barrier to, the practices of those who create or facilitate the production of OER. This survey is a follow-up to the panel on International Copyright Exceptions and Limitations that will be held on Wednesday.
- Preferred Time: Thursday, 1:30-2:15 or 2:30 - 3:15
- Relevant Links: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Cf7SBEwRDEhdXP3JOlrh7g_3d_3d, http://opened.creativecommons.org/Copyright_exceptions_(fair_use)_and_OER_production
- Name: Lorraine Motlhabane
- Contact (email)Lorraine.Motlhabane@nwu.ac.za
- Organization: North West University - South Africa
- Topic / Your Pitch: Topic Funding Transformation, Access, Equity and Redress in Higher Ed Instittuions: SA
- Preferred date/time for your discussion: THIS PERSON IS NOT ATTENDING THE CONFERENCE BUT LOOKING FOR MORE CONTACTS. PLEASE CONTACT THEM DIRECTLY Sleslie 19:36, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
- Relevant links : I am a PhD student & financial management lecturer without any form of funding. Purpose of my research will be to develop funding model for SA) More contacts, communication and possibility of funding and sharing information will be most welcome.
- Name: Brendan Guenther & Sunnie Kim
- Contact (email) brendan(hat)msu(dot)edu
- Organization: Michigan State University
- Topic / Your Pitch: Aggregating OER's on food safety (or any other niche topic) to allow for correlation to competencies, ratings, and social networking across numerous repositories. Concept being implemented based on CCLearn's DiscoverEd, Drupal 6, and our own modules for correlating resources to content standards. Will release all our work under CC license and open software licensing. Interested in illustrating our concept for others and exploring possible collaborations, how to make your repository compatible with our vision, and other niche areas that could benefit from an implementation of our system.
- Preferred date/time: Thursday morning ~10-11 or even better would be ~11-Noon.
- Relevant links: http://foodsafetyknowledgenetwork.org/
