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New Open Education Resources site

Friday, May 15th, 2009
OER Logo

OER Logo

Aptivate have launched a new site for developing and publishing Open Education Resources – particularly resources relevant to ICT training.

oer.aptivate.org

It is our intention to publish any training materials we produce on this site under a Creative Commons license so the can be re-used by others. The site is based on MediaWiki so it will others to edit and create their own materials on-line.  MediaWiki can export to OpenOffice and PDF document formats making it a good choice for collaboratively creating training resources.

We will be using this site to develop training courses in collaboration with participants.

We encourage anyone to re-use our materials, use the commenting function to leave us feedback and to submit their own ICT training materials to this site.

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The UnPresentation

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

Sitting in the audience of the Africa Gathering, a kind of unconference, I was struck by a thought – what would an untalk or unpresentation be like? (I wasn’t the first person to have this thought.)

So here’s one possible idea of what an unpresentation could be…

The rules of an unpresentation

  1. The unpresenter is allowed to start by saying only one short sentence followed by an invitation for questions eg.

    “Hi, I’m Alan from Aptivate, this unpresentation is on low-bandwidth web design. What would you like to know?”

  2. After that, everything the unpresenter says is in response to a question from the audience.
  3. The use of presentation software (powerpoint, OpenOffice presentation etc) is not allowed.
  4. If a computer and projector are used then only images are permitted and chosen in order to respond to a question.
  5. Images are chosen from a non-narrative list, like a grid view, thumbnails or file-system folder (ie. not from a presentation).
  6. Images are shown full screen with no banner, footer, logo or other unnecessary blemishes.
  7. Diagrams are drawn live.

I then started to wonder what unpresentation software would look like…

unpresentation sketch

unpresentation sketch

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