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]]> By: Cristina http://www.pontydysgu.org/2007/12/show-that-you-share-a-first-report/#comment-506 Cristina Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:00:52 +0000 http://www.pontydysgu.org/2007/12/show-that-you-share-a-first-report/#comment-506 I just wanted to add to this post that, as a participant of the Bazaar conference, I really enjoyed the informal aspect of it, which was introduced by the event's loose agenda and the meaningful involvement of the organizers, round table moderators and also the audience. I really liked the approach and could only wish organizers from other conferences had been there to learn from you. This is really a good format. Re: OER... You really said it all. Although I am all for Open content and sharing, I can't really picture myself using content from an "impersonal, community-less repository". I think the sharing culture is developed with the community activity and it is also there that it becomes more relevant. Also because I am not very convinced that there are that many people wanting to use each other's content just like that...and that is the argument of many against it... Although I wouldn't have any problem if someone wanted to use a ppt I created or other online activities I developed for students - and the latter has already happened, at least once, as far as I was told, I think the open sharing of content could be more useful in the sense that people share what they developed within the communities they belong to, benefiting what others are doing in that subject area. I always need to adapt the content I have access to to my personality and the way I teach/learn. Accessing content in repositories and using it like it has been submitted it not of that much use to me. I need to personalize it and sometimes it helps if I have the help of others to help me make sense of that content so that I can call it "my own" too. Of course, in return I would be sharing the results if that too. And so yes, we need to develop systems where communities of PEOPLE can work on content that interests them and share it with others...not only the result, but also the process. In this sense it takes more than to create the software and find a way to make in available to people. It takes people to engage in the culture of sharing and collaborating with others, in the same way they want others to share and collaborate with them. It is always a 2 way road...Always! Looks like the tone of this comment is getting too philosophical...I will stop now! :P I just wanted to add to this post that, as a participant of the Bazaar conference, I really enjoyed the informal aspect of it, which was introduced by the event’s loose agenda and the meaningful involvement of the organizers, round table moderators and also the audience. I really liked the approach and could only wish organizers from other conferences had been there to learn from you. This is really a good format.

Re: OER… You really said it all. Although I am all for Open content and sharing, I can’t really picture myself using content from an “impersonal, community-less repository”. I think the sharing culture is developed with the community activity and it is also there that it becomes more relevant. Also because I am not very convinced that there are that many people wanting to use each other’s content just like that…and that is the argument of many against it…
Although I wouldn’t have any problem if someone wanted to use a ppt I created or other online activities I developed for students - and the latter has already happened, at least once, as far as I was told, I think the open sharing of content could be more useful in the sense that people share what they developed within the communities they belong to, benefiting what others are doing in that subject area.
I always need to adapt the content I have access to to my personality and the way I teach/learn. Accessing content in repositories and using it like it has been submitted it not of that much use to me. I need to personalize it and sometimes it helps if I have the help of others to help me make sense of that content so that I can call it “my own” too. Of course, in return I would be sharing the results if that too.
And so yes, we need to develop systems where communities of PEOPLE can work on content that interests them and share it with others…not only the result, but also the process. In this sense it takes more than to create the software and find a way to make in available to people. It takes people to engage in the culture of sharing and collaborating with others, in the same way they want others to share and collaborate with them. It is always a 2 way road…Always!

Looks like the tone of this comment is getting too philosophical…I will stop now! :P

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