Openness = transparency, accessible, flexible

Classrooms have traditional been a closed type of environment.

But we have the opportunity to see what someones day is like:

Konrad Glogowski - Teacher -  http://twitter.com/teachandlearn

Catching up on rss and e-mail 09:30 AM April 28, 2007 from web

Had a very productive class with the eights - they're blogging their research - great energy in the room - lots of discovering and learning 10:52 AM April 27, 2007 from web

Getting ready to chat with the sevens about their poetry assignment 08:15 AM April 27, 2007 from web

Gray morning here in Toronto ... getting ready for a busy day in grade eight 08:09 AM April 26, 2007 from web Just finished talking to one class of grade eights about their research - the progress chart seems to be working well 11:22 AM April 26, 2007 from web just finished reading some new student entries - good progress generally speaking 09:45 AM April 26, 2007 from web

Looking over the progress reports that the eights filled out today 06:50 PM April 26, 2007 from web

Tim Lauer - Principal - http://twitter.com/timlauer

Heading home soon.. pizza night tonight... 05:47 PM April 27, 2007 from web

Covering chess club 03:30 PM April 27, 2007 from txt

Working in the tech lab with 4th and 5th grade students 10:56 AM April 27, 2007 from txt

Designing a new egress map... 07:43 AM April 27, 2007 from web

Updating lewis web page... file upload seems to be busted... 05:48 PM April 26, 2007 from web

Watching first grade drama production... 02:52 PM April 26, 2007 from web

 MIT's Open Courseware

OER - Open Educational Resources - http://cnx.org/

Openness is related to open source and is a philosophy that is being used as the basis of how various groups and organizations operate. It is a relatively new term to describe this general way of doing things.

It is typified by communal management, and open access to the information or material resources needed for projects; openness to contributions from a diverse range of users/producers/contributors, flat hierarchies, and a fluid organisational structure.

Teacher Created Wiki Projects

International projects that are organically generated by educators, in order to facilitate their own, curricular, and student needs to help prepare students to be globally effective, technologically literate, and collaborative savvy.

Classroom examples:

Flat Classroom Project - The Flat Classroom project is a genuine assessment project between Julie Lindsay'sgrade 11 ITGS class at International School Dhaka(ISD) in Bangladesh and Vicki Davis' 10th grade Computer Science class at Westwood Schools in Camilla, Georgia.

Horizen Project - This is a joint project between five classes ranging from grades 10-12 at the International School Dhaka, Bangladesh, Westwood Schools in Camilla, Georgia, Presbyterian Ladies College in Melbourne, Australia, the Vienna International School in Vienna, Austria and the Shanghai American School in Shanghai, China to research, discuss, and envision the education and society of the future according to the six trends outlined in the Horizon Report 2007 Edition.

Wiki Projects that Involve Mass Collaboration

This project "Global Village" connects students from around the world, and encourages them to tell their story of life from where they live.http://www.wikiville.org.uk/index.php/Main_Page

This project is a multilingual vocabulary resource. Mulivo is a non-profit, uncopyrighted, volunteer wiki project for creating a multilingual dictionary.http://mulivo.pbwiki.com/

The MemoryArchive, as an encyclopedia of memories. There motto "Everyone has a Story. Make Yours History."http://www.memorywiki.org/en/MemoryArchive

Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Education_bookshelf