TrueStories

=True Stories of Openness = = = 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. Beyond my own tales, others have been culled from the net, and I ask you to share your own.

While open courseware is important, there is much more that happens to us as individuals as we break old conventions and actually freely share our content online.

I want to help promote the concept of wide open sharing by highlighting examples of True Stories of Openness-- things that people have gained from that were initiated from putting something they made, wrote into the open space of the web, stories of things that would not have ever happened without this space.

What the heck am I talking about? My own examples include ones outlined in [|Only on the Web]:
 * An HTML tutorial I shared in the mid 1990s was [|voluntarily translated into Icelandic] by a teacher in Isafudor, later leading to be being [|invited to Reykjavik to run a workshop for teachers].
 * A German rock band named [|"The Sea Level"] found an [|old photo in my web site of the sea level sign in Death Valley]-- they used it [|for the cover of their CD] and I got a copy of it!
 * During a workshop in Tasmania, Australia, I was telling the audience about the amazing thing on flickr where I had posted photos of flowers labeled "Unknown flower" and people on their own found the photo and helped identify it. [|I chose one at random], and [|the person who had commented on my photo was sitting in the room!]

Talkin' Bout Open // (conference teaser) //
Enjoy this teaser for my presentation featuring the voices of everyone who shared a story with me: media type="custom" key="4180651"

Call for Stories //(closed, ya missed the bus!)//
This is the //Tom Sawyer Fence Painting School// of building presentations! I'm looking for your stories to tell to an audience at the August 2009 [|Open Ed Conference] in Vancouver. **The call for stories closed July 31, 2009- so if you want to add, the venue still open is to reply below as a YoutTube response video.**

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How about it? It does not have to be super amazing, it might just be a colleague you discovered via open content, or a project that happened because of commons interests, or maybe something even more amazing.

Pixton Version of this Call For Stories
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This wiki is (not yet) a desperate plea for stories for a presentation at the August 2009 Open Education Conference by Alan Levine. The Amazing Stories image was modified from an original January 1935 issue [|found at the archive from Galactic Central]. This page was created on {$creationdate} by user:{$revisioneditor} and has been edited {$pagerevisions} times. The last change was {$revisiondate}.