Sunday, June 22, 2003

Open Resources in Education I spotted this resource in Stephen Downes' OLDaily. Anyone interested in open source developments will want to study these reports. The Introduction by Glen Bull and Joe Garofalo provides a valuable quick history lesson about seminal open source efforts. The focus of the reports is on K-12 open source materials, but the presentations speak to a wider audience. JH ___ Proceedings of the Fourth National Technology Leadership Summit: Open Resources in Education. Detailed discussion of the concept of an "Educational Source Forge," a free and open source repository for educational materials. As Glen Bull and Joe Garofalo write, "Just as Richard Stallman found it necessary to employ copyright law to codify and protect a longstanding tradition in the software community, a general public license will encourage a similar practice in the educational community." Several papers follow this introduction, looking at the mechanics of such a proposal in detail. By Various Authors, CITE Journal, June, 2003 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 7:20:35 PM    COMMENT []

American Women: Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for Study of U.S. Women's History & Culture I'm reposting this information from the Resource Shelf weblog. The Gateway is part of the American Memory resource at the Library of Congress. JH ____ New: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the U.S.. Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text DocumentsWomen--United StatesSource: The Library of CongressNew, American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United StatesFrom the site, "The site cont [ResourceShelf] 6:51:57 PM    COMMENT []