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 [log in to unmask] 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 > >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"