I get this lucky perch to see new accounts being created in OEG Connect, and am trying a new strategy to have a semi regular greeting to those who signed up in the last two weeks.
Welcome here to a space for open educators. If you are new here, please reply with a hello and let us know what you are interested in here.
Welcome to opensource.com/education flickr photo by opensourceway shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license
Hello and welcome to @WHamilton who I can see is from Norquest College, our friends and hosts of the 2023 OEGlobal Conference. And a warm greeting to @subrachns IT expert from Bangalore plus @jennifermoore from Rio Salado College in Arizona, from where my career begain at the Maricopa Community Colleges District Office next door. Hi to @Anselm from Kampala, Uganda-- we are glad you signed up. And look, another Arizona connection to @Carrie_MF from Yavapai College-- how are things in Prescott? And welcome to @jcrbaeta in Portugal and @MarianTdG at Kassel University in Germany. Hola @rasikhtariq from a place we have many colleagues present from the TecnolĂłgico de Monterrey. And also a California sized welcome to @professorjuliej at the College of the Canyons.
All of these details are found when you click an OEG Connect users icon for a “mini profile” like @jennifermoore (I hope you are okay Jennifer I am using you as a demo!) which you can click again to see more detail their profile here (note that your email address is never displayed).
Many profiles are limited to the information entered when you created an account- and often people rush through that because they are so eager to get logged in, right?
We encourage all OEG Connect participants new or been here a long time, to add an image for their account profile (that link will take you to your own profile editor) and also fill out their public profile with a bio, links to social media, your geographic location (if not entered before).
But enough of how to use Connect, I hope we can generate more welcome spirit here, so anyone, not just our new community members, hope you can light up the conversation topics (so there is more than just me yakking).
I am working on some grand master plans to re-organize OEG Connect. We’d like more people, if possible, to make share conferences, webinars, activities in the OE Events area and/or if you participated in an event, leave a review.
Plus the other place to share I just set up, the OE Sharing Zone, the place I hope you think of dropping a link when you come across something of interest in your web travels, and get that feeling of, “I bet someone else would find this interesting”
Lastly, I usually tend to use images in many of my posts (I love photography) and I am trying to make sure folks are reminded there are so many photos and graphics that real humans have created and shared-- I went to one of my favorite sources of completely open licensed and attributed media Openverse (also winners of the 2023 OE Award for Open Infrastructure, and we are going to be doing a podcast with next week) and searched for Welcome. I found this rather old (2010) CC licensed image on Open Education from OpenSource.com– and naturally I had to click a link in the caption to find this organization’s 2010 invitation to open education.
Who needs artificial generated images of robots on horseback when we have so much exisiting media?
Alas, ignore my blabbing, and say hello to our new people here.