True+Stories+Open+Sharing+Sharefest

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//September 29, 2014 • Shar-E-Fest 2014, Hamilton, NZ//
 * Alan Levine • cogdogblog.com**

While the Open Education movement focuses on institutional issues, a large ocean exists of powerful individual accomplishments simply from tapping into content that is open for sharing and re-use. As colorful as old covers of “True Comics” magazine, this presentation shares moving, personal stories that would not have been previously possible, enabled by open licensed materials and personal networks.

We all start out in our educational careers (meaning when we were in kindergarten) knowing intrinsically the value of sharing. Somewhere between there and graduate school, we lose track of this simple concept, be it worrying about intellectual property rights or fearing theft.

The open ecology of the internet can undermine this learned and limiting stinginess. In this session we want to celebrate the True Stories of things that happen to educators when they share something openly on the web. We asked colleagues to share with us a video of their own stories of something surprising, valuable, powerful, or just plain inspiring that happened when that piece of media, that document, that video, that blog post, became valuable to someone they did not know before.

Resources Mentioned

 * How I feel about arguments over definitions of “open” http://giphy.com/gifs/M0F8XL7edqDkc
 * In which Google sanctions remixing of YouTube videos w/ attribution http://cogdogblog.com/28988
 * “Openness is an attitude” (Nancy White) http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/opened09/video/nancy-white-2.mp4
 * MOOC- every letter is negotiable https://www.flickr.com/photos/mathplourde/8448541815/
 * Amazing Stories of Openness (Open Education Conference 2009) http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/opened09


 * Death Valley Photo to cover of German CD http://stories.cogdogblog.com/german-band/
 * Random Walks in the Southwest (source of sea-level.jpg) http://dommy.com/alan/random-walks.html
 * The Sea Level CD Has Arrived http://cogdogblog.com/2005/11/12/the-sea-level-has-arrived/
 * My Dad's Drafting Table http://stories.cogdogblog.com/dads-drafting-table/
 * My Dad's Drafting Table on the Cover of Cell Magazine http://cogdogblog.com/28396
 * Create a Realistic Blueprint Image from a 3D Object http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/create-a-realistic-blueprint-image-from-a-3d-object--psd-232
 * Cell, Dec 2013 cover http://www.cell.com/issue?pii=S0092-8674(13)X0025-X
 * Amazing Story of Unknown Flower http://stories.cogdogblog.com/unknown-flower/
 * True Stories of Openness http://stories.cogdogblog.com/
 * True Story of Open Sharing by @jessmcculloch I Share Therefore I Go to Hollywood http://bit.ly/15hjWQv
 * True Story of Open Sharing by @jonathan_worth From Closed to Open Photographer http://bit.ly/YSsE1K
 * True Story of Open Sharing by @fryed Student video Seen Aboard ISS http://go.cogdog.it/1eD9rdU
 * True Story of Open Sharing by @draggin Sharing Sunflower Seeds and Ideas http://go.cogdog.it/1eD9Lt6
 * Share something and come back with an Amazing Story http://stories.cogdogblog.com/call-for-stories/