Feliz Ano Novo!, Šťastný nový rok, 新年好, Bonne Année, Frohes neues Jahr, नव वर्ष की शुभकामनाएँ, Buon anno!, 明けましておめでとう!, ¡Feliz Año Nuevo!, Gott Nytt År! and the many more ways to say Happy New Year (I had help from Duolingo) and sending Hello to all …
Hello Hand flickr photo by osiristhe shared under a Creative Commons (BY-ND) license
We are almost a week into 2023, how is it so far? My grand end of year ambitions to do some needed remodeling here in OEG Connect have now been evolved to new years resolutions! But I do want to send appreciation to all who have increased the level of activity here over the last few months.
Looking ahead at a minimum of things that will happen here:
- Yes! More Pulses! We will resume the weekly Monday Pulse / poll discussions on the first Monday of the year. We are eager for suggested topics.
- Ramp Up for Open Education Week! This year Open Education Week is March 6-10. The call for participation opens January 23, so we hope you are getting ready to share details on whatever events you are planning on offering or considering what open assets/resources you want to share. Again we will offer a space here in OEG Connect to talk about what is happening ask questions about participating, and even offer a spot for you to host some kind of discussion activity right here.
- Ongoing Open Topics! We saw spikes of interest at the end of 2022 in evolving Fediverse concept and if you are reading following news or commentary there is much attention on the implications of ChatGPT for educators-- we’ve been following a number of topics since June on Artificial intelligence, I’m curious to explore more about what we can coordinate or focus on through the lens of Open Education.
- Share Your Announcements! We like seeing the use of OEG Connect for job announcements (see a brand new one for an opportunity at Creative Commons) and Open Education Events
- OEG Voices Podcast! We have a series of new episodes for our podcast slated to be published very soon including 4 already recorded and to be released soon with recipients of the Individual OEAwards for Excellence. We invite you to extend the conversations with each episode automatically added here in OEG Connect. As my last task of 2023 I published a short episode with some previews for our 2023 series.
That’s just things off the top of my head… I’d love to hear your plans, hopes, big open education goals for 2023… hmm that might make a good pulse topic.
Hello, 2023!
PS- That image of the hand came from an Openverse search on hand hello for CC licensed images– we encourage you to make use of and share the resource of the Openverse tools for finding, reusing and easily attributing image and audio content.
