Students will identify and create open and closed figures using labeled cards and pipe cleaners.
A brief guide to authoring in Connexions. This module provides links to existing Connexions documentation modules and highlights resources for new authors participating in the Open Education Cup contest (http://OpenEducationCup.org).
This module provides an introduction and links to several exemplar modules that illustrate how to make effective use of Connexions and highlight various CNXML features.
An introduction to the Open Education Cup collection as distributed at the SC08 conference in Austin, TX. This module briefly describes the purpose of the booklet and the competition.
A brief introduction to OER and its importance in the Open Education Cup contest (http://OpenEducationCup.org).
The International Schools of Singapore present TeachIT 2007, our second biennial conference held for IT and Classroom teachers from K-12. The main focus is integrating IT into teaching.
This module serves as the introductory module for the Open Education Cup contest (http://OpenEducationCup.org) collaborative book. This introduction outlines the primary focus of the contest and provides examples to help authors get started with their contest entries.
The world has experienced an explosion of openness. From individual artists opening their creations for input from others, to governments requiring publicly funded works be available to the public, both the spirit and practice of sharing is gaining momentum and producing results. Creative Commons began providing licenses for the open sharing of content only a decade ago. Now more than 400 million CC-licensed works are available on the Internet, from music and photos, to research findings and entire college courses. Creative Commons created the legal and technical infrastructure that allows effective sharing of knowledge, art and data by individuals, organizations and governments. More importantly, millions of creators took advantage of that infrastructure to share work that enriches the global commons for all humanity. The Power of Open collects the stories of those creators.
The new training handbook: "ict@innovation: Free your IT-Business in Africa!"
A starting point for new businesses and Open Source in Africa:
The ict@innovation programme is happy to announce the launch of the handbook: "ict@innovation: Free your IT-Business in Africa!" and its release for free download. The handbook is a compilation of open training materials and includes numerous successful business models suited to the African context are presented and explained, such as Software Selection, Software Installation, FOSS Training, Maintenance and Support, Software / Systems Migration, Consultancy, Software Localization and Internalization, FOSS Customization as well as Technical / Legal Certification. Eight in-depth case studies of successful African IT-businesses give concrete avenues for Free and Open Source business models that work in Africa. Other key sections focus on Knowledge and Skills for FOSS Entrepreneurs such as communication and business skills and on FOSS Training as a Business in Africa.
The training handbook has been collaboratively developed by more than 50 FOSS experts from Africa and beyond, who have contributed their expertise and helped put together this wealth of knowledge. The United Nations University Maastricht Economic and Social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) and the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE) have been overseeing this process and in charge of the thematic guidance and organisation. The hanbook has been developed as part of the initiative ict@innovation, a partnership of FOSSFA (Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa) and InWEnt - Capacity Building International of Germany, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
