A presentation given during the fall 2009 meeting of the National Association of District Supervisors of Foreign Languages. My presentation described the ways in which open source learning opportunities can engage our students in authentic, meaningful learning environments.

1. Open Learning in a Hyperconnected World
Barbara Lindsey
November 18, 2009
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2. researcher
Open Learning in a Hyperconnected World
learner
educator
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3. Imagine taking all the worlds’ books ... liberating these
pages ... digitizing them ... storing them in a vast
interconnected global repository ... making it all open,
so that people could modify it, play with it, improve
it ... making it free so that anyone in the world can
have access to this knowledge ...
Richard Baraniuk on open-source learning
http://j.mp/wC4Lc
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6. Berkeley
Yale Cornell
Columbia Duke
Georgetown
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7. The academic uses of realtime search follow the
pre-Web pedagogy of seeking timely references to
a classroom topic.
Bryan Alexander
Social Media is Killing the LMS Star - A Bootleg of Bryan Alexander’s Lost Presentation — Open
Education Conference
http://j.mp/zM47A
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10. MANAGING INFORMATION
is MANAGING CATEGORIES
IT REQUIRES EXPERTS
and it is still HARD TO FIND
Michael Wesch
Information R/evolution
http://j.mp/JI5Q1
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15. These new tools are transformative tools.
They are particularly useful
for publishing students’ work online.
Graham Stanley
Web 2.0 & Language Learning
http://j.mp/E6bJj
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22. Sources
Slide 3: Richard Baraniuk on open-source learning http://j.mp/wC4Lc
Slide 4: Connexions http://cnx.org/
Flatworld Knowledge http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/
California Open Source Textbook Project http://www.opensourcetext.org/
Flexbook http://www.ck12.org/flexr/
Textbook Revolution http://textbookrevolution.org/index.php/Main_Page
Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/
Slide 5: DigitalCommons@UConn http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/
europeana http://www.europeana.eu/portal/
Academic Earth http://academicearth.org/
Dash http://dash.harvard.edu/
MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/
Slide 6: Stanford on iTunes U itunes.stanford.edu
Slide 7: Bryan Alexander Social Media is Killing the LMS Star - A Bootleg of Bryan Alexander’s Lost
Presentation — Open Education Conference http://j.mp/zM47A
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23. Sources
Slide 8: newsmap http://newsmap.jp/
Twitter/Search - Samoa http://twitter.com/#search?q=Samoa
Jose Hernandez (Astro_Jose) on Twitter http://twitter.com/Astro_Jose
Google Maps with Street View http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/
Slide 9: Ustream on iTunes
Evernote on iTunes
Wikipedia on iTunes
Google Earth on iTunes
Animoto on iTunes
Slide 10: Michael Wesch Information R/evolution http://j.mp/JI5Q1
Slide 11: Zotero http://www.zotero.org/
Google http://www.google.com/
Diigo http://www.diigo.com/
Slide 12: Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/
Open Source Teaching http://www.opensourceteaching.org/
Ustream is Duke’s Latest Venture in Online Communication
http://news.duke.edu/2009/09/ustream.html
OER Commons http://www.oercommons.org/
Curriki http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/
University of the People http://www.uopeople.org/
Peer 2 Peer University http://www.p2pu.org/
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24. Sources
Slide 13: Florida Virtual School http://www.flvs.net/Pages/default.aspx
Colorado Virtual Academy http://www.k12.com/cova/
Open High School of Utah http://openhighschool.org/
Slide 14: Global Kids http://www.globalkids.org/?id=6
Think Global School http://thinkglobalschool.com/
Slide 15: Graham Stanley Web 2.0 & Language Learning http://j.mp/E6bJj
Slide 16: 9 Miles Media http://9milesmedia.com/
Matthew Bischoff http://matthewbischoff.com/
Zoe’s Kid-Powered Revolution http://bit.ly/hCezh
Slide 17: Open Source Cinema http://www.opensourcecinema.org/
CivWiki:Culturas de España http://civwiki.wetpaint.com/
Flat Classroom Project http://flatclassroomproject.ning.com/
ACTFL Video Podcast Contest http://www.actflvideocontest.org/
Spanish Connects Us http://www.spanishconnects.us/
The Mixxer | Language Exchange for Everyone http://www.language-exchanges.org/
Slide 18: Virtual Student Foreign Service http://www.state.gov/vsfs/
Facebook | Languages for Life http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=51255891386
Frontline SMS http://www.frontlinesms.com/
The Extraordinaries on iTunes
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25. Sources
Slide 19: MIWLA Connect - Connecting world language educators in Michigan and beyond
http://miwlaconnect.ning.com/
K12 Online Conference 2009 http://k12onlineconference.org/
Google Calendar http://www.google.com/calendar/
LearnCentral http://www.learncentral.org/
Slide 20: Kelli Marshall http://homepages.utoledo.edu/kmarsha9/
Future Kansas Teachers Scouting Site - Get Discovered! http://futureteachers.ning.com/
Slide 21: Ben in Japan http://www.benjaminwoodard.com
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