A rollicking tale of open source adventures presented December 7 at the TIES 2010 Education Technology conference in Minneapolis, MN.

2. PROLOGUE

4. Focus on Minnesota teachers

5. Wordpress Multi-User + BuddypressThe Backstory

7. Technology vs. magic SMACKDOWN

8. Time travel! Solar eclipses! Battles!

9. Need a refresher?The OtherBackstory

10. CONNECTIVIST

11. Connectivism “At its heart, connectivism is the thesis that knowledge is distributed across a network of connections, and therefore that learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those networks.” ~Stephen Downes

12. YANKEE

14. KING NING’S COURT

15. http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/08/last-day-of-free-ning-networks-what.html

17. 12:16pm: Earth trembles, panic ensues, riots, etc.

18. 2:37pm: Alec Couros to the rescue!April 15, 2010: The Day the Networks Died

20. 3:42pm: Ning network creators move from denial to anger. Later stages of grief will include bargaining, depression, and acceptance. April 15, 2010: The Day the Networks Died

22. What responsibility do network organizers and creators have for ensuring that they are choosing to build sustainable spaces? Why is that some third-party’s responsibility?Shouldn’t folks who are totally reliant on Ning, and angry with them, be upset with themselves, if at least a little? ~Bud Hunt, April 16, 2010 http://www.flickr.com/photos/deano/60196814/

23. Hosted Software

24. Freemium vs. F/OSS Easy; packaged. Portability: who owns the data? Ads or fees. Customizable? Sorta. DIY; gotta learn it. No question: you own the data. Pay for hosting. Mucho customizable. Hosted/freemium F/OSS

25. http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardmscott/2180833265/

26. TRUE ADVENTURES IN OPEN SOURCE

27. http://www.flickr.com/photos/never_surrender/839508117/

29. 150+ users

30. Willing to learn (and pay to learn)Tirarmea la pileta

31. pdminnesota.org

32. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thesheriff/2244505263/

33. Spambots! Sploggers! Comment spam! Zombie attack! http://www.flickr.com/photos/lamentedejko/4683472692/

35. Akismet

36. Safe Signup

37. WPMU Super CAPTCHA

39. "The whole purpose of Web 2.0 is user-generated content," [founding developer of Wordpress Matt] Mullenweg says. "To make that happen, you want the system as easy and transparent as possible. But that just lets the spammers in. So you put in hurdles for them to jump over. They jump over them, so you put in more hurdles. And at the end of the day, you have a system that's not nearly as easy and open and transparent.“ Wired

40. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/83093271/

42. Compare original text to scanned OCR

43. Uncertain words used in CAPTCHA challenges

44. 99.5% transcription accuracyRelax & reCAPTCHA

46. UMW Blogs

48. Scott Schwister email: sschwister@gmail.com twitter: @sschwister blog: higheredison.wordpress.com website: pdminnesota.org Thanks