However, since a few folks were asking about good resources for Open
Source...Steve Hargadon has been a great advocate for Open Source in
education and is restructuring some of the communication venues around
this topic. This was greatly needed and I commend Steve for doing this.
He recently sent a request to folks to build up a better resource for
those of us using Open Source in education.
Alex Inman
Director of Technology
Whitfield School
St. Louis, MO
314.434.5141
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Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:29 AM
To: Inman, Alex
Subject: On Classroom 2.0: Help Build the New K-12 Open Source Community
A message to all members of Classroom 2.0
One of the professional hats I wear is as the director of CoSN.org's
K-12 Open Technologies Initiative. I also run the Open Source Pavilions
and speaker series at the CUE.org and NECC ed tech conferences.
Because I'm a passionate advocate for Free and Open Source Software in
K-12, I've been feeling for a while that the time is right for a
stand-alone social network around its use. There is a good K-12 Open
Source group within the Classroom 2.0 community, but groups don't have
the same full functionality as stand-alone networks, and also don't have
the same visibility. So I've done some reconfiguring with my
www.K12OpenSource.com domain, creating a collaborative site which I hope
will help to build the Free and Open Source Software ecosystem in K-12.
The wiki that was previously there is now at
http://wiki.k12opensource.com/, and I've set up a Ning community just
for Open Source in K-12 at http://community.K12OpenSource.com/.
I hope you'll come join the community and help to build it. I believe
that having an inviting and easy-to-use social network will increase
exposure, adoption, and idea-sharing around Open Source in K-12 at a
time when it is truly needed (both financially and pedagogically).
We'll also need some folks to start groups around favored
programs--please consider coming and doing that!
http://community.k12opensource.com
Steve
Steve Hargadon
Founder, Classroom 2.0
steve@hargadon.com
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