Dear All,

I guess it is now common knowledge that I am more or
less addicted to using the KEEP technology to assist
teachers in representing research!
So - in the happy intention of spreading the word
about how brilliant KEEP Toolkit templates are, I am
forwarding the latest KEEP newsletter,

Warm regards,

Sarah


--- Knowledge Media Lab
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: "Knowledge Media Lab"
> <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Sarah Fletcher <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Open Knowledge News. Summer Issue 2007
> (formerly KEEP Newsletter)
> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:33:00 -0700
> 
> In This Issue:
> 
> Welcome
> T & L Commons
> KEEP Toolkit 2.0
> KEEP Statistics
> KEEP in New Ways
> The KML Community
> 
> 
> Contributing to the Community
> 
> February 14-15, 2007: Toru Iiyoshi gave an invited
> plenary talk "Open Educational Resources for the
> Sustainable Advancement of Teaching and Learning:
> From a movement to cultural and institutional
> transformation" at the 3rd GLOBE-NIME International
> Seminar in Tokyo. 
> 
> February 16, 2007: KML Associate, Olga Trusova,
> presented "KEEP Toolkit for the Moodle Community" at
> the Moodle Moot conference in Albuquerque, NM. Her
> session covered an overview of current open source
> efforts in the field of educational technology
> including Moodle and Sakai projects as well as KML’s
> KEEP Toolkit, and an exploration of possible
> collaboration with existing communities such as
> those of the KEEP Toolkit, Moodle, and Sakai.
> 
> March 21-23, 2007: Toru Iiyoshi gave a keynote talk
> "Accelerating Educational Innovation and
> Transformation through Learning Communities and
> Knowledge Networks" to 600 faculty, staff, and
> administrators from the University of North Carolina
> System campuses at the UNC’s Teaching and Learning
> with Technology Conference in Raleigh, NC. 
> 
> May 8, 2007: Peter Spangler, Olga Trusova, and Toru
> Iiyoshi presented KML’s perspective on "Balancing
> Acts: Leveraging Open Content, Tools, and Processes
> to Support Learning and Teaching Communities" at the
> EDUCAUSE Western Regional conference in San
> Francisco, CA.Welcome to the New KML Newsletter
> 
> Welcome to the inaugural issue of Open Knowledge
> News! This newsletter, brought to you by the
> Knowledge Media Laboratory (KML) of the Carnegie
> Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, brings
> you the news about our newly created educational
> knowledge exchange space called the Teaching and
> Learning Commons, the Knowledge Exchange Exhibition
> Presentation (KEEP) Toolkit, and other related
> efforts.
> 
> 
> The Teaching and Learning Commons
> 
> 
> 
> As some of you know, since we launched the KEEP
> Toolkit website in 2004, over 20,000 educators and
> students from all over the world have created over
> 100,000 online representations and collections that
> documented their efforts in educational
> transformation, course and curricular improvement,
> and experience in effective teaching and learning.
> Building upon this remarkable collective work, we
> have developed the Teaching and Learning Commons to
> further promote and support knowledge building and
> sharing in education. We would like to invite you to
> participate in this global effort with your
> experience in and passion for good and more
> effective teaching and learning, and hope this
> newsletter will stimulate and guide you in doing so.
> Be a part of the greater community at:
> commons.carnegiefoundation.org
> 
> 
> Find KEEP Toolkit Work in the Teaching & Learning
> Commons
> 
> In addition to having a KEEP Toolkit page associated
> with your user alias, simple URLs for snapshots,
> stitched groups, and galleries, as well as the
> ability to share them within the KEEP Toolkit, the
> new publishing function enables our Google appliance
> to index and make your published work searchable by
> others in the Teaching & Learning Commons. This
> creates a new venue for you to share and exhibit
> your work. Yet another exciting area to check out
> here is the Community Favorites where the most
> popular items and a tag cloud from the KEEP Toolkit
> are featured.
> 
> 
> Social Bookmarking
> 
> In a true Web 2.0 fashion, we now offer visitors to
> our new T&L Commons the ability to use other Web
> services such as social bookmarking services like
> del.icio.us, and more. We are working to continually
> enhance your experience of this exciting space with
> the interaction of services like Digg and
> educational playlist tools like H2O.
> 
> 
> 
> New Features in KEEP Toolkit 2.0
> 
> 
> The KEEP Toolkit Version 2.0 is Here!
> 
> New Dashboard functions allow KEEP Toolkit users to
> license their work with Creative Commons licenses,
> and to share and make them searchable with easy to
> remember URLs. Viewers can now see published KEEP
> account pages without the need to login. To learn
> more about this, please read our Splash page >>
> 
> 
> Publishing
> 
> Now you can publish your work! This function
> announces the work to Google and T&L Commons. This
> makes the work more easy to find by others! Select a
> number of snapshots, stitched groups, and galleries
> from your Dashboard and click "Publish." As a bonus,
> for each item you publish, you may choose a short
> URL. The short URL is easy to remember and send to
> colleagues. For example:
> http://www.cfkeep.org/users/youralias/portfolio
> (using a short title) or
> http://www.cfkeep.org/users/ youralias/tags/yourtag
> (using a tag)
> For more information, see the help files.
> 
> 
> Licensing
> 
> We have included Creative Commons licensing that you
> may select for your work when you publish it with
> the KEEP Toolkit. There are six licenses, in
> addition to traditional copyright, available for use
> if you publish snapshots. The selected license will
> appear at the bottom of your pages. Learn more about
> the Creative Commons licenses >> 
> 
> 
> User Alias & Simple URL
> 
> In order to more easily view your published work, we
> ask you to select a user alias. This will enable you
> to browse your Dashboard. For example:
> http://www.cfkeep.org/users/youralias. 
> This link only shows your published work and is
> viewable by anyone. View our new tutorial on
> publishing and licensing >>
> 
> 
> New Templates
> 
> We have added two new Case Study templates for our
> KEEP Toolkit users: HP Technology for Teaching and
> the Goldman-Carnegie Quest project templates. To
> find and use these as well as other templates
> offered in the KEEP Toolkit, visit our template
> gallery >>
> 
> 
> 
> New Ways of Using the KEEP Toolkit
> 
> 
> Integrating Learning and Sharing Widely
> 
> Teams of faculty from Carnegie's Integrative
> Learning Project's (ILP) 10 campuses used the KEEP
> Toolkit to compile their ongoing documentation of
> pedagogies, programs, faculty work, and campus-wide
> initiatives that promote integrative learning. At
> the end of the 3 year project, ILP staff created
> their final report using the KEEP Toolkit in order
> to have an easy-to-compile and share document.
> 
> The KEEP Toolkit as a New Academic Genre in Teacher
> Education
> 
> Over the last several years, Tomás Galguera of Mills
> College has experimented with various uses of the
> KEEP Toolkit - from documenting his Scholarship of
> Teaching and Learning projects, to sharing
> pedagogies of working with multimedia records of
> teaching. In this case study, he shares his ways he
> has used the KEEP Toolkit to support his preservice
> teachers' language awareness. His innovative use has
> helped his students collaborate, consider the
> environment needed for language development, and
> record their teaching practice.
> 
> 
> Jack Mino: 
> Making Interdisciplinary Connections
> 
> Jack Mino, of Holyoke Community College, used the
> Toolkit to capture and make interdisciplinary
> student learning visible to himself and his
> colleagues. By carefully creating a format called a
> "Link Aloud," Mino has been able to see and
> understand some of the connections that students in
> the College's Learning Communities Program made
> between courses, disciplines, and subject matter.
> 
> 
> 
> Cultivating the KML Community
> 
> 
> Learning to Learn, Learning to Teach
> 
> On May 29th 2007, KML Director Toru Iiyoshi and
> former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation John
> Seely Brown took part in the Carnegie Foundation’s
> Community Event Series for a community conversation
> on "Engaged Technology-empowered Communities of
> Practice: Learning to Learn, Learning to Teach." The
> discussion focused on how knowledge sharing and
> social networking technology enables communities of
> students and instructors to better learn and teach
> by harnessing a growing number of open educational
> tools and resources. Enthusiastic audience
> participation and a general discussion on
> technology-enabled open education and new cultures
> of learning and teaching followed the presentation.
> 
> 
> Community Showcase
> 
> COPPER: A Multi-institutional Community of Practice
> 
> The Knowledge Media Lab would like to highlight this
> exceptional KEEP stitched group created by COPPER,
> entitled, "Pooling Educational Resources to Support
> the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning." COPPER is
> a leadership cluster participant of the Carnegie
> Foundation’s CASTL program, with eight diverse
> institutions that have partnered to create an
> evolving interdisciplinary community of practice
> focused on the scholarship of teaching and learning.
> Their mission is to create communities of practice
> that are vital, collaborative, connective, and
> communicative within and across institutions.
> 
> 
> The Keep Toolkit Development Community
> 
> One of the goals of the KML has been to cultivate
> interest in further developing the KEEP Toolkit. 
> Recently, Sonya Zhang and Steve Curtis used the
> 1.9.8 version of the KEEP Toolkit as the basis for a
> research project. After a pilot study and
> prototyping, three months of coding, and two rounds
> of usability tests, Sonya Zhang of Claremont
> Graduate University (CGU) and Steve Curtis of
> Curtiscomp.com proudly announced the KEEP Social
> Learning Suite (SLS) version 1.0 on the KEEP Toolkit
> community forum on May 22, 2007. New features were
> added to the KEEP Toolkit to enable users to easily
> search and browse public snapshots and stitched
> groups, comment on snapshots, connect to external
> blogs, and collaborate in groups. 
> 
> "In June, the School of IS & Technology at Claremont
> Graduate University has recommended KEEP SLS to all
> its doctoral student to create a required doctoral
> qualifying portfolio. As of June 20th, there are 61
> registered users at the KEEP SLS site, of which 46
> are CGU students. Users can testdrive the software
> at our site, keep.curtiscomp.com." 
> - The KEEP SLS Team
> 
> The KML team would like to congratulate Zhang and
> Curtis on a wonderful extension of the KEEP Toolkit,
> and encourage our users to take the testdrive. We
> are currently investigating the possibility of
> including some of Zhang and Curtis' new features in
> future KEEP Toolkit releases.© Copyright 2004-2007
> The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
> Teaching.
> All Rights Reserved.
> 


Sarah Fletcher
http://www.TeacherResearch.net