Hello! This is my first experience of OE Global, I am currently studying Online and Distance Education with the Open University. I work in commercial education so the concept of OE is very new for me. As part of my MA I have been researching OEP, which has led me here. I’m looking forward to learning from everyone and seeing where openness could take me.
Hello and welcome Sarah,
You are studying in one of the best places, where Open is in their name. I have had the pleasure of visiting Milton Keynes once and been on campus.
I’m curious how you found OEG Connect- this is a very new effort to develop an active community space for open educators, and we hope you use it to ask questions as you research OEP.
And it would be interesting as well to hear some input on how the commercial education sees the open education world, especially on the “P” part.
Thank you Alan 
Yes I did my undergraduate degree with the Open University and now continuing my studies.
I found OEG Connect after searching for Open Educators, so your google rankings are working well. I have shared the link with my fellow students via our course forum, and you can find us using the #H818 on twitter.
We are all creating a project / presentation for our course conference “Open Education in an Open Landscape” which will be held next week. Following this I’d love to share my project with this community to carry on the conversation about how commercial education can be open.
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Hi Ron,
You can join the CCCOER community anytime by visiting our website under Get Involved. Our community email list is free and open to all interested educators, students, etc.
Hi Stephen, it’s great to see you exploring here. I seek people here who can stimulate good conversation, and I think you have some experience here 
We hope you can drop in next week when we are planning Three Day Focus asynchronous discussion on Curricular Alignment, the Reusability Paradox, and Offline OER – there is a guy named “Wiley” who we hope to draw in here, he is someone you may enjoy talking with!
And thanks for sharing the feedback on the signup process, much to be improved…
Guten Tag from Heidelberg, Germany.
Why / how is open education important to my work?
I want to learn more about the needs of Open Education because the tool I am working on is supposed to be useful for education and it’s free, i.e. it lends itself to OE.
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And welcome Matthias so glad to see you here! Feel free to share about your tool and other interests, of which I know you have many.
A good place to describe the tool might be here OEG Practical - OE Global Connect
Dà net’e is a standard Tłı̨chǫ greetıng what Canada calls the Northwest Territories. It is often translated “how are you” but more literally asks, how are you being. Of course we also have more informal greetings depending on the season. Nı̀hts’ı natso is an appropriate one today - it’s quite windy, causing difficulty getting to fish nets. One of my favourites is not quite suitable today when the wind is actually keeping down our hordes of mosquitoes and black flies - kw’ı łǫ to which one replies kw’ı łǫ dı̀ı̀ affirming that there are indeed too many mosquitoes.
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Wow, Jim! Dà net’e and thanks for sharing such descriptive greetings. I hope your fish nets are doing well and the mosquitos are keeping away (here on the prairies there ought to be ones about wood tics).
Thank you for joining OEG Connect, please explore. I am confident we lack mosquitos.
Živjo from Slovenia. I teach EFL at a local college and I’m here to broaden my horizons. I have been appreciating open education from the user end (moocs, oers) and hope to make a step forward in including it in my teaching practice as well.
A personal experience: Once upon a time there was a little project called Listen to the walls talking… probably the closest thing to my open education experience as an educator. We basically took photos of interesting graffiti pieces and shared thoughts about them… more or less to see how we see them and compare our thoughts. Then I happened to share this little project with the internet (webheads CoP and others) and it pretty much got a life of its own for awhile. The original website is unfortunately no longer up (required no registration, was open to anyone to share cc-licensed images and comment contributions) - its main idea was to encourage intercultural discussion around individual pieces in English. The wiki and the flickr group are still out there though. For example here’s a student photo (unfortunatelly small) of a lovely piece with a nice description from my hometown in Slovenia and another (unfortunately also small) one from Romania. And then we sometimes also played with these photos, creating posters and other things. It was a lot of fun! 
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Welcome Saša, we are glad to found this community space.
Your story of a creative project of open sharing that reached maybe beyond your expectations are the ones I enjoy the most. And that is a clever name for your project, “Walls Talking” – I did find the site in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110211101225/http://wallstalking.org/
Please feel welcome to use OEG Connect to share current projects or ask questions or just join conversations.
Thank you Alan. 
Lots of handy resources and interesting conversations around here. Also thank you for the link - I haven’t thought of the Wayback Machine…
I must be dreaming! Great to see @Downes here! My whole research is based on theory of Connectivism. I hope I will catch my breath and interact once the butterflies and excitement settles!
Hello everyone, I’m the new lead for the MoodleNet project for open educational resources. 
Paul
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Welcome, Paul! I saw a very early version of Moodlenet, please feel welcome to share more about the project or let others here know how to be involved
We are about to release v2 for testing after going back to the drawing board. Lots of work to do but it promises to be a great open source platform that you can use yourself and connect to other installations to share content.
I’m regularly editing the MoodelNet Dev docs and this will include how to test and get involved once we’ve released.
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Thanks Paul. We will keep an eye on the Dev docs and if there’s anything we can help with as a community, let us know.
Dia Daoibh (Hello/God be with you all). In Irish God is kind of woven into the language which can seem a bit odd in this more secular age but I think of it as more of a feature than a bug.
My name is Eamon Costello and I work in Dublin City University Ireland.
I am interested in all things open as I work mostly working with distance learning students.
where you benefited or experienced something unexpected from an act of openness.
Not sure, but maybe feeling connected to a group of creative people who have strong values centred around helping others.
Look forward to participating (mostly probably by lurking!)
Deleted my previous post as I messed up the formatting 
Eamon