Education Wants to Be Free
Dave Cooksey
Mike Zarro
Mayor’s Council on Literacy 2009 Technology Conference
Philadelphia Community College
May 8, 2009

Session Goals
‣ Have knowledge of various online resources
‣ Examine the use of other’s content
‣ Discuss copyright | Creative Commons
‣ Understand contributing content to social sites
‣ Create an e-learning resource

Dave Cooksey
Founder & Principal Consultant
saturdave UX Consulting
Affiliations
‣ Chair of PhillyCHI, the Philadelphia region’s chapter of the ACM SIGCHI
‣ Information Architecture Institute (IAI)
‣ American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)
Education
‣ M.S. Information Systems, Drexel University
‣ M.A. Political Science, University of Illinois
Previous Work Experience
‣ GSI Commerce, Inc.: User Experience Lead; Information Architect
‣ LandAmerica Financial Group: (Web) Application Developer

Mike Zarro
Information Architect and Digital Librarian
gsi interactive
Affiliations
‣ PhillyCHI, the Philadelphia region’s chapter of the ACM SIGCHI
‣ Information Architecture Institute (IAI)
‣ American Library Association
Education
‣ M.S. Library & Information Systems, Drexel University
‣ B.A. History, The George Washington University
Previous Work Experience
‣ Bryn Mawr College: Web Developer and Designer
‣ Animation Technologies: User Experience Engineer
‣ University of Pennsylvania: Web Developer & Project Lead

Building a Web Site for Education
“Computers, B&W” by Kevin Zollman - Taken from Flickr on May 8, 2009: http://www.flickr.com/photos/36144637@N00/159627089/

Content & Tool Providers
A mix of corporate, educational, and government institutions:
‣ Google (YouTube, Blogger)
‣ Yahoo! (Delicious, Flickr)
‣ The Library of Congress (Photo sets)
‣ Open University (Learning Space)

Creating an E-Learning Resource
Over the course of this presentation, we will create this website:
http://mcol2009.blogspot.com
‣ Website
‣ Hosted at Blogger
‣ Content
‣ Open University (United Kingdom)
‣ Flickr
‣ YouTube
‣ Delicious

For the Educator
‣ Relatively simple tools
‣ Engaging
‣ New and fresh content
‣ Takes learning outside the classroom

For the Student
‣ Students are extremely comfortable on the Web (generally)
‣ Encourages collaboration & transparency
‣ Serendipity
‣ Fun?

The Four Cs of Online Content
‣ Compelling
‣ Creative
‣ Collaborative
‣ Cost-Free

Step 1: Create a Site

Blogger – Setup
1. Name Blog 2. Design Blog

Blogger – New Post
3. Compose
4. Edit HTML:
you can cut &
paste image and
video code.
5. Publish:
or save for
later editing

Step 2: Content

Flickr – Homepage
http://www.flickr.com/tour/

Flickr – Photostream
Search
Photo Sets
Copyright Info

Flickr – Photo Collections
Photo Sets

Flickr – Photo Sets
Select a Photo

Flickr – Photo
Share Photo
Things you
can do with
this photo
Notes &
Comments Tags

Flickr – Sharing a Photo
Copy &
paste to
your
website

YouTube - Video
Embed
Code

YouTube - Customization
Customization
Options

Delicious Join or Sign In
(with a Yahoo!
account)
Search

Delicious - RSS Feed RSS
Feed
User
submitted
links
Related
Tags

Blogger - Add RSS Feed
Click add
gadget to
show a
pop-up
page of
tools.

Blogger - Add RSS Feed from to the Menu
Add the
RSS
gadget

Open University
This is a class from the Learning Space. We will link to an article used in their readings for week 2.

Open University - Class

Altogether Now...

Putting It All Together - 1

Putting It All Together - 2

Putting It All Together - 3

A Word About Copyright...

...and Creative Commons Licensing

Resources
“Computer Technology Fortune” by Dean Johnson - Taken from Flickr on May 8, 2009: http://www.flickr.com/photos/deanj/2398424227/

Resources
Blogger
‣ http://www.blogger.com/
Flickr
‣ http://www.flickr.com/
YouTube
‣ http://www.youtube.com/
Open University Learning Space
‣ http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

More Resources
Google sites, create websites and wikis
‣ http://www.google.com/sites/help/intl/en/overview.html
MIT Opencourseware
‣ http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
iTunes U
‣ http://www.apple.com/education/guidedtours/itunesu.html
TED talks on YouTube
‣ http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector

That’s All, Folks!
Mike Zarro Dave Cooksey
mikezarro.com saturdave UX Consulting
713 Pine Street 1R
Philadelphia, PA 19106
+1.215.219.8960
dave@saturdave.com
mzarro@gmail.com