Hello, Tbers,
Our group has responded with interest to questions of Open Educational
Resources, so I thought we might have some who would like to know about a
new opportunity to create an open textbook. The attachment describes
support and compensation available to those authors. There is a deadline
of January 15 for application for this program. I hope several of our
SUNY Oneonta authors will apply for this support.
Best wishes to all for good holidays.
Janet
Dr. J. Nepkie
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SUNY Distinguished Service Professor
of Music and Music Industry
SUNY Music Department
Oneonta, NY 13820
tele: 607-436-3425
fax: 607 436 2718
On 12/18/13 12:40 PM, "Fleisher, P. Jay" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>This thing (e-communications; call it what you will) is well underway and
>gaining momentum. Where will it go next? There is no way to know what
>lies in the creative mind. Just hang on and adjust as you go, hoping the
>useful can be separated from the trash. But, wouldnıt it be nice if
>capitalism were not part of the equation.
>Jay
>________________________________________
>From: Teaching Breakfast List [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>Greenberg, Jim
>Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 7:27 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Open Educational Resources (OER)
>
>Well said Harry. The Internet of Things and what that might mean for
>Higher Ed. moving forward is hard to conceptualize. This does a nice job
>of it.
>
>I find this useful in introducing this topic to students:
>
>Kevin Kellyıs TED talk on the Semantic Web
>http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web.htm
>l
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>Jimmy G.
>
>From: Teaching Breakfast List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf Of Pence, Harry
>Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 3:19 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Open Educational Resources (OER)
>
>Dear Fellow-TBers,
>I am writing a book chapter on the semantic web, mobile, augmented
>learning, etc. etc. and I just wrote the following paragraph as a summary
>of where the material up tonow has led me.
>
>"As Manovich has pointed out, teachers today have to deal with a new type
>of cognitive artifact that does not have physical reality, like a book or
>a movie, but exists only as a piece of software
>code1<https://vm-helios.oneonta.edu/owa/?ae=PreFormAction&a=Reply&t=IPM.No
>te&id=RgAAAADhOYBonv1GQ6XS6l%2bSksRQBwByB5kLJpVWRpqqiYFU24a7AAAAzO0WAADN5L
>QQgk6qTZLAHZFb9%2b0eAIUH8xqIAAAJ#_ENREF_1>. This creates unprecedented
>opportunities for linkages involving every aspect of modern life. The
>Social-Semantic Web is typical of this type of interaction, but it is
>symbolic of a more far-reaching reality. Everything and everyone is in
>the process of becoming connected to everyone and everything else.
>Thanks to their mobile devices, more and more students are carrying a
>virtual information commons in their pockets that is equivalent to a
>major research library, and the students are linked to other students all
>over the world, not just those in physical proximity. Augmented reality
>apps connect smart objects with the Web to provide an always available
>source of information and recommendations, and as the Internet of Things
>becomes an actuality physical objects will join this web of connectivity.
> Cloud computing represents a new set of linkages, which will probably
>manifest themselves through mobile devices. Chemical databases, like
>ChemSpider, are linked to other databases by means of Application
>Programming Interfaces (APIs). The world is moving beyond the World Wide
>Web to the Web of Everything. This is not the ravings of some addled
>futurist; it is already happening."
>
>
>1. Manovich, L., The Algorithms of Our Lives. The Chronicle of
>Higher Education Dec. 20,. 2013, 2013, pp B10-B13.
>
>
>
>I will not clog up your mailboxes with all of what I have written, but on
>the basis of this one paragraph, I am curious what responce you might
>have. Is it a total yawner that everyone already recognizes, a reasonable
>evaluation of where we are now, or the ravings of a mildly (?) deranged
>mind.
>
>
>
>And on that note, I'll wish you all aHappy Christmas and a Merry New Year
>(indicating that I am part of the war on Merry).
>
>
>
>Cordially,
>
>Harry
>
>
>
>
>Harry E. Pence
>SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
>SUNY Oneonta
>
>________________________________
>From: Teaching Breakfast List [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>Greenberg, Jim
>Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 2:18 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Open Educational Resources (OER)
>TBers,
>
>You either have or soon will hear about OER especially with the Open
>SUNY initiatives. Here is a short video about this:
>
>http://youtu.be/qVbsZUN20Qk
>
>
>
>Mr. James B. Greenberg
>Director Teaching, Learning and Technology Center
>Milne Library
>SUNY College at Oneonta Oneonta, New York 13820
>
>email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>phone: 607-436-2701
>fax: 607-436-3677
>Twitter: greenbjb
>
>"Ignorance is curable, stupidity lasts forever"
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