Welcome to day 2 of the Remix Challenges for Open Education Week!
Today we’ve got Field Notes, to chart your Open Education journey, where you can enter a location, upload a photo and add a few words.
You could maybe think about your first experience with Open Education, or where you are now in your OE journey, or even where you’d like to be…
Create your own FieldNote here , using the Remixer Machine.
Don’t forget to post your Remix below…
Oooohhhh! The field notes is one of my favorit---- actually I can’t even pick a favorite form the Remixer Machine. But I hope others that try this for the first time get sparks of ideas on how to use this in their own world/field for an open education experience/activity.
Also, a gentle reminder that everyone who logs in to OEG Connect an cast (numerous) votes for their favorite remixes all week long, please click the little like/heart buttons. This will help us find a pool of finalists for the big prizes we offer at the end of OE Week.
Go forth and remix! You can do and vote on the remixes ay any time this week. Look for tham all at remixerchallenge
There was not even a name like “Open Education” for it (that I knew), no open licenses as a brand new instructional technologist at the Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction at the Maricopa Community Colleges (Phoenix, AZ).
I was tasked with learning Hypercard to work on an ESL multimedia project (Project LEE) and I found an online FTP site (where files are shared) that people had posted their HyperCard Stacks, unprotected, that could be downloaded and opened to learn how to script. With this and some listservs I was able to teach myself programming.
Actually on looking it up, this was the Info-Mac Archives which included a listserv and a set of mirroed archive sites, SUMEX-AIM was the one I used based at Stanford.
It dawned on me that of others had freely, shared online what they created so I could learn, that I would do everything I could to do the same, and give back. I have not strayed from that path.
I was working at Tecnológico de Monterrey when I first heard the term OpenCourseWare. It took me a moment to grasp the concept. I wondered, what does “open” really mean? Isn’t what we do already open? If it isn’t considered open, then what is it? The realization was huge! It was eye-opening to gradually realize how much knowledge was kept behind walls.
This experience initiated a whole new adventure for me, one that I am still on today! 
Back in 2011, in the days of Africa Centre, I was introduced to Wikimedia by Iolanda Pensa, working with her on the WikiAfrica project called Share Your Knowledge. It was my first deep-dive introduction to open licences – and it was a relief to find a legal framework and global community behind what felt so natural to me. I worked collaboratively with Florence Devouard (first chair of Wikimedia Foundation), South Africa’s then CC Public Lead Kelsey Wiens, and others in the international Wikimedia movement. We went on to launch Kumusha Takes Wiki and other initiatives that unlocked open across Africa – which led me here!
Oh, I love the field notes remix! Doing things called “cMOOCS” opened me up to a whole new world and a whole new way of thinking.
Sarah not only “does” the DS106 Daily Create she is key in making sure there is one published for all of us every day.
This has been going on every day since January 2012 https://daily.ds106.us
