About the Workshop

Create open learning on the same principles that underlie the internet... the way the web was won. Agenda 'n presenters 'n stuff like that.

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Why (and how) of the Open Web?

An overview of what we mean by "open" and why we're here jawing about it. And some places we've been that you should see.

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Explore Open Web Courses

Before you go galloping off, let's ride up to a plateau and take a look at the frontier. Woah.

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Setting Up on State U

A "subdomain of your own"? In this workshop you will use a trial platform offered that provides a sandbox for installing a pile of web stuff. We have cooked up custom installs of a suite of ones that may give you a head start on building a connected course.

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A Quick Calling Card

Let's see what kind of landing spot you can make in five minutes.

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Round Up Activities

Get on your web horses and get building your own bit of open web ranch land. Yippee Yi Oh!

Twitter Connecting

Without having to build any web sites, some approaches for using that twitter bird to connect your courses.

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Mightiest GIF in the West

You know them from playful social media messages, but what about meaningful use of short-form video? Create one from video in a few minutes.

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Better Calling Cards

That Site Publisher is pretty much a lame horse, we have some better stallions for you.

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SPLOT Image Pool

Build a place for your class to build and organize a shared collection of images, without logins. Y'all also get features to require source and attribution as well as submission via email.

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SPLOT Writer

Create a site for submission of media enabled writing-- for essays, creative writing, a journal, or other places to toss around written words. It sure looks pretty too.

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SPLOTpoint

Powerpoint meets a Wordpress SPLOT and gets crushed.

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Course Hub

Build a course aggregation hub to corral all of the activity published in a distributed course network.

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The Daily Blank

Wake up an make something every day! Automatically publish a small challenge every day where responses are submitted via twitter.

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The DS106 Open Assignment Bank

Barn raise a pile of assignments or challenges where responses are submitted and attached as examples; users can rate items as well as submit their own.

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Movie poster mashed up from an original one for The Big Country found on the Art and Artists blog post on Saul Bass film posters. This post has no attribution for the images, and this remix is obvious parody done in the name of an academic endeavor used under a claim of fair use.

Animated GIF created with Giphy GIF Maker from YouTube video The Big Country - Blanco Canyon Sequence