Photos and thoughts on Creative Commons Salon NYC on opening education

Last night I sat on a panel with Dave Bill and Kerri Richardson Redding talking about how we use Creative Commons licenses in our school with students and adults. The event was the Creative Commons Salon NYC, and the theme was "Opening Education." The night started out with Eric Frank of Flat World Knowledge and Neeru Paharia of Peer 2 Peer University. Eric talked about how Flat World was publishing digital textbooks under Creative Commons licenses (non commercial) and had some interesting insight in what seems to be an awful industry in general. Neeru talked about the motivations for being part of an organization that believes that anyone should be able to take college-level classes online, for free.

Dave, Kerri, and I seemed to focus much more on why Creative Commons was important to students in particular whether giving them methods for publishing their own work, joining into something bigger (the commons), or using material from the Internet that wasn't entangled in potential legal folly.

I definitely have some more reflection to do on the event before I can blog more, but thought I should fire out the photos and the summaries. I had a great time with our NYCIST colleagues who were there, too. Thanks for the support!

What does "get organized" really mean?

David Allen is the guru of getting organized. Many of you know that I've read his book, Getting Things Done, countless times. Whenever I'm feeling organizationally lost I go back to the book and reread, and remotivate. I know I haven't put his system completely into place yet, or I wouldn't need to keep starting over. For those of you who have the stack of papers, the post-it notes, and the wallet full of business cards, read his most recent newsletter post about getting organized. It helped me, and I hope it helps you.

p.s. those are some photos from my desk and around my desk. Ugh, I need to clear my inbox!

Tell the White House what 21st century education means to you

The White House Asks

Posted by Kori Schulman on March 02, 2010 at 06:09 PM EST

Education in FocusAt WhiteHouse.gov we’re always looking for new ways to engage with citizens, whether it’s through a live video chat with a policy expert or an Open for Questions event with the President. As an extension of the Administration’s commitment to making government more collaborative and participatory, we’re trying something new this week. The White House will pose a question to our more than 480,000 fans on Facebook, 1.7 million followers on Twitter and 30,000 group members on LinkedIn. Later in the week, we’ll highlight some of the most interesting responses on the White House blog.

As part of this week’s “Education in Focus” series, the White House asks:

What does a 21st century education mean to you?

So, tell us on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. We look forward to your responses and want to give a hat tip to @GOOD for a good idea.

via whitehouse.gov

The White House blog has a post asking, "What does a 21st century education mean to you?" They're looking for responses via Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. Help them out and respond! Help us out and respond well.

Spotted this post via @vanessascanfeld retweeting @douglevin