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No longer staid repositories to protect items from the past, Minnesota's museums are evolving fast-forward into all-ages social beehives.
Walker Art Center tweaked the traditional role of museums with its cat-video festival, which drew 8,000 people last summer.
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They are, by definition, places where objects are archived and protected. But to attract visitors in the age of TMI, ADD and Instagram, their once-hushed halls of introspection have become beehives of social activity and techno-temptations.
Top trends changing the way that Minnesota museums operate include more opportunities for interactivity and a "makers movement" that lets visitors create objects themselves. Museums are also rebranding themselves as social-event gathering spots and finding fresh ways to display and interpret collections. They're also blurring boundaries, from diversifying curators' roles to taking exhibits outside their walls in formats like "pop-up" parks.
"The most common reason people give for coming to museums is 'to be inspired,' " said Sarah Schultz, curator of audience engagement at Walker Art Center. "They also make us more aware of time, in the present moment."
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"Museums are leveraging themselves as community spaces by maximizing what they're good at — having stuff and thinking about stuff," said Phil Katz, co-author of a recent trendwatch report for the Center for the Future of Museums, an initiative of the American Alliance of Museums.
The Walker Art Center's free-admission events on Thursday nights have become generally packed parties, with guest chefs in the restaurant and live music in the galleries. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has monthly Thursday events as well, with fun themes designed to attract a young night life crowd.
The Bakken Museum of Electricity is the latest to hop on the social-hub bandwagon. At a recent after-work fete featuring cocktails and diversions — including unique circuit-bending musical instruments and a static-electricity display that made attendees' hair stand on end — geek was definitely chic.
"People think science is something done alone in a library or lab," executive director David Rhees said. "But when they come here and build a bug out of recycled electronic components, they see it's social and fun."
Make 'n' take
Today's museumgoers love creating things on site, especially if they can take them home.
While museums have long tried to make learning fun, now they're taking things a step further, giving visitors more control over the process. Last year, the Minnesota Children's Museum's 3D-printing demo, which allowed visitors to create their own prints, proved popular. In October, the museum will introduce "Creativity Jam," a series of activities that encourage kids to problem-solve, find different ways to construct things like play forts and robots, and even help an artist with an installation.
The Science Museum of Minnesota has "#hashtag" signage throughout its exhibits, to encourage maximum tweeting. Many area museums have invested in expanding Wi-Fi access so visitors can spontaneously share their impressions or images on social media or Google more information on an artist.
The backlash to such hyperconnectivity has already begun. In Paris, a group is working to make the Musée d'Orsay Internet-free so people will focus only on the art.
"They're fighting a losing battle," Katz said. "One of the biggest technological developments driving what museums will do is that people carry their devices with them at all times and consider them a seamless part of their lives. Nearly 60 percent of American adults have smartphones. That percentage is certainly higher among the heaviest users of museums."
Mixing it up
Museums are not only finding new ways of displaying art — the MIA's "ReMix" program, for example, juxtaposes seemingly incongruous works to invite new interpretations — but also new answers to the perennial question "What is art?"
Exhibit A is the Walker's wildly successful cat-video festival, which drew 8,000 people to its outdoor Open Field in August and is being expanded at the State Fair grandstand this summer.


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The Excellence in Community Communications and Outreach (ECCO) Recognition Program showcases and celebrates the outstanding achievements of grantees.
The ECCO Recognition Program is sponsored by SAMHSA's Caring for Every Child's Mental Health Campaign of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program. It showcases and celebrates the talents, strengths, and successes of grantees that build community-based programs incorporating "systems of care" for children and youth with serious mental health needs and their families. The Program also provides an opportunity for grantees to learn from others.
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Fornello da Ricci, a restaurant farther down the coast near Brindisi, is considered one of the region's finest. Its dining rooms, replete with wood beams and stone floors, complement the cucina's rustic menu. Standout dishes include handmade pasta with eggplant and mint sauce, flourless ricotta gnocchi, and roasted spring lamb and kid. The wine selection is nothing short of spectacular.
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December 20, 2012Today, NOAA released preliminary information on extreme weather and climate events in the U.S. for 2012 that are known to have reached the $1 billion threshold in losses.
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platinol 5pts i agree with VTEC, the 335 is a better choice. The Mustang is 10" longer, 2" wider yet is smaller inside the the 3 series. I drove my brother in law's 330xi and it is a sweet ride. Comfortable, perfectly weighted steering, solid handling. Anyway, after you replace the $350 per rear tire at 10,000 miles from the burnouts and powerslides, those antics stop real soon.
-RWC- 5pts This car has no real luxury or it wouldnt be a real Mustang, prefer a 335i/xi for the same money. -300 lb. ft. at 2000 RPM without turbo lag-German Luxury and refinement-BMW Driving experience-Usable when its the ground is wet or icy-Menacing looks-Would you rather have an overly powerful dangerous car with sloppy handling and a live axle or a refined German luxury performance coupe?
LT1Boy 5pts A lot of you guys are missing the point.Menacing looks. Badass, supercharged V8 soundtrack. Rear wheel drive so you can do power slides all day long. Comfortable, every day driver. And 540hp for $42k.No other car besides the GT500 can do this.The GT500 is not meant to be a track car. It's a muscle car - a boulevard cruiser and a stop light dragster - and Ford has done a very good job at it.
benjithrillz 5pts Noshie: I just can't see why anybody would want to pay such a high premium for a car that's years behond the competition, especially when the competition costs so much less.And yes, I know there's not actually 30 types. I admit I exaggerated there, but think about it. For the last Mustang, there were all the basic levels, plus:GT500GT500KRSaleenRoushThe Hertz versionBullit edition.And in addition to that, I'm sure there's MANY more that I've forgotten.My point is that Ford cotinues to flood a niche market with so many variations of a car that became popular because it WAS ACESSIBLE TO THE AVERAGE PERSON.All these different versions, however, are not acessible.:)
FirehawkLust 5pts no they don't care I find it pathetic though how many people buy cars not realizing how bad they really areNow I don't hate all mustangs, just the newer ones that are backwards. Now I love the old Boss's and the 1970's Mach 1's they were exciting, but the new 2010 GT has to have a sound tube? really? that's a little patheticI also believe the G8 GXP is in production by now,
moose0 5pts Again, Ford sells a ton of those V6 Mustangs (it's a 3.8, not a 3.9, and later a 4.0), and I'm pretty sure they don't give a crap what a magazine article says, and aren't shooting for a market of people who only buy what MT says is fast or great. I'm glad you laugh at "stangs". I laugh at people who compare them to cars that are no longer made or haven't yet reached production. At least I'm respectable, and haven't dogged any of the cars y'all are throwing around here. I honestly hope GM and Chrysler stay afloat to produce (or continue to produce) some competition for the Mustang.
FirehawkLust 5pts I laugh at stangs, when a 2001 3.8L v6 stang is pushing out the same power as my 1992 3.1L v6 Grand Prix (using the same v6 as the 91's so at least a 10yr old engine) it is rather pathetic. If Ford gave me something to be proud of with a mustang I would. the only mustang I would buy would be a roush p51b or possibly another aftermarket tuner's mustang
moose0 5pts Well, since GM has already talked about axing Pontiac to stay afloat, I thought it was necessary.Suprised to see the amount yuppie Mustang haters on here, considering how well they sell.
FirehawkLust 5pts aside from the fact that the G8 is brand new, and no its not a 45 year name plate, but it has 4 doors and still spanks a mustang.who cares how long the name has been around, i care about how my car PREFORMS. It seems you can't argue preformance with us so you argue a name, congrats!
moose0 5pts And yet, the Mustang still, after 45 years, still outsells the cars y'all are comparing them too. Weird.Regardless, I think it's a good looking car, and have no doubt it'll do a good job of pinning you in the seat. I would have done things a bit different if I were Ford, but, I give them credit. I'll be waiting to see how cars like this will do over the next few years though, with a looming economic crisis, middle east oil concerns, and the money we just handed GM and Chrysler.
ncguy 5pts Firehawk - Motor Trend has the G8 GXP doing 4.5 seconds to 60 mph which is very close the the 4.3 the Mustang does. What's amazing, it's got 125 hp less and weights more!
Noshie 5pts The mustang is not in the same class as the Vette or the SRT10, so you cant compare it to them, and ford could have made this better by changing the suspension to independant, and handling will be a lot better. Also The previous model could do 0-60 in 4.9 sec, and the new one in low four second range, that is quite an achievment. benjithrillz: Ford doesnt make 30 different types of stangs, only three the standard model, GT, And shelby. The Roush mustang and Saleen are from tuner houses, because it is just that great of a car.
benjithrillz 5pts Oh, COME ON!Why must Ford always make 30 different versions of the SAME car, but with different badges?And how can people "collect" these things?It's just NOT that good a car to start with, and now they're asking an extra 50 grand for it because of a new engine?Camaro, Please!
tonkatoytruck 5pts moose0It never ceases to amaze me that people would buy a car that handles so badly and can be outcornered by just about anything else on four wheels. All because it is a Mustang. If Ford's intent was to build a drag car, this is not the way to do it.57.5/42.3 front/rear weight distribution (vs. the mustang GT's more neutral 52.5/47.5)An embarrasing 0.38 drag coefficientWill barely do the mid 4's (4.5 seconds) from O-60mph.Some have called it the slowest 500+ horsepower car in the world.This all adds up to a terrible sports car that can not even keep up with several four door sedans made today, in any category.All these short comings were acceptable back in the 60's and 70's but in today's world, this is an embarrasement to all Ford owners.
bbkk 5pts Bryanski - I've had many of the same problems and more with american cars, so don't get your hopes up just yet.
Bryanski 5pts Wanna talk about quality? I own a Honda product, and the quality is piss poor. The paint quality sucks, it chips way too easily. The interior quality sucks, fit and finish is poor with insulation hanging from the gaps... and while the leather and plastic look and feel nice, barely rub up against it and it scuffs. The rear window deck rattles, the steering column rattles, and there is a loose bolt that slides around in the driver's side door. It's FWD and torque steers like hell, and understeers heavily in corners. This is no economy car either, but a 2006 TL. I owned a 330i before that, and while they are great performing cars, with all of the electronic problems that it started having (dead window motors, sensors malfunctioning that would put the engine in emergency limp-home mode), I'm glad everything was still under warrenty... I got rid of it because I couldn't rely on it. Needless to say, I'm going back to an American brand when I'm ready for my next purchase.
ncguy 5pts moose0 make sure you spell the user name correctly when commenting - meaning ___NCGUY___ not ncguyOh and one more thing: The Mustang - especially these type Mustangs are the MID-LIFE CRISIS cars for Ford fans! Geez!
FirehawkLust 5pts Moose the GXP is cheaper and runs 0-60 4.7, which for 2 more doors and 420HP isn't bad when compared to a 2 door coupe at 540hp getting 4.3.... that either really says something about the G8 or shows how slow the GT500 is
moose0 5pts Everytime I've been to Germany, I rented a BMW. Great cars, but I'd still prefer to own something that sounds and feels American. The BMW was nice, and fun, but it never got my blood pumping like a Mustang or GTO. Pride, maybe? I guess I don't understand dogging a car that created and maintained it's own market for 45 years now. Competitors to the 'vette, for example, have come and gone, and I'm not a 'vette guy, but I'll give GM credit where credit is due.And NCguy, the Mustang doesn't use a leaf. And way to compare it to a car that not only hasn't been released yet, but needs my tax money to secure it's parent company before it can get released.And why is everyone dogging the solid axle? When Ford actually tried to put an IRS in the Mustang, the people that ACTUALLY BUY Mustangs pitched a fit. That's why it doesn't have one. And for the arguement about economy and efficiency from the engine, we'll have to see what the ecoboost does...http://www.motortrend.com/future/112_0803_2010_ford_mustang/index.html
-RWC- 5pts Get out of any cheap American car like this and hop into a euro or japanese one, like a 335i and youll see what I mean. Bad example but youd get it.
-RWC- 5pts I really dont see how ford tried to make a great world-class car, sure it has power but what else? The interior feels archaic and cheap, at least the current one, and the whole car and chassis feels like its made of wood, it feels flexy and cheap.
G-Street 5pts Hmm... I am excited to see what Chevy decides to respond with.. The Camaro is capable of alot..
moose0 5pts Yeah, it'd make way more sense to buy something heavier and slower...?!And why isn't the GT500 reliable? This Ford Mechanic wants to know.
moose0 5pts Beautiful new shape, and the refinements are welcome. Shame it's a little heavy. Hopefully you can opt to get it without the boy racer stripes as well. I would take this over some 2 seat mid life crisis car like the 'Vette any day.
GMSMASHER__ 5pts Why spend this kinda of money on a ford mustang. A couple grand more and you can purchase the king of sports cars the nissan GTR, but they are not in the same category. A person would probably be better with a Hundyia Genesis and drop $5k into it and be ass quick as the gt500 and waaayyy more reliable. plus who in the hell would pay for such an expensive ford...
tonkatoytruck 5pts Ford needs to go back to the drawing board. It is sad when four door sedans have better drag coeffients, better weight distribution, better gas mileage, and better handling. And at these prices, it is a no brainer to buy a Corvette instead, even for the most die hard Mustang fan.
-RWC- 5pts Isnt the 4.6 liter V8 about the most common American V8? Anything from Mustangs and F-150s to Cadillacs and Buicks have a 4.6 liter. Hey NCGUY it looks like you have a poser BTW, and BTW a Mustang has more torque and bhp down-low because its gobbling up fuel down low, a comprable 3.0 liter gets its torque down low too, 2750 RPM I beleive, and it gets all of its ponies running at about 6000 RPM, so it uses more fuel the higher it revs but the Mustang uses more fuel down-low in the RPM band, thats where it gets its low-end kick
_NCGUY____ 5pts Hmmmm everyone has pretty much duked this out so guess I don't have to comment - oh well maybe next time. Sorry I've been on vacation, The chevy camaro ss is still better plus GM is the king of automobiles. The gt500 is still a mustang with a solid leaf suspension unlike the camaro's fully independent suspsension which means the camaro is better suited for the track versus the gt500. Nice try ford but no cigar!
KobraLink 5pts -VTEC- it seems to me that you worry too much about the 0-60 time and mpg, people who buy Mustangs, Camaros, and Challengers usually care less about gas, if not they would opt to get another car. Muscle cars are more about a fun driving experience. By the way the 1999-2004 Mustang does about 5.5 0-60 and of mile in 14.1 secs not 6.1 as you said before. Don't get me wrong I like the type of car you like but I prefer my muscle cars.http://www.albeedigital.com/supercoupe/articles/0-60_Quarter_Mile_Times/F_0-60times.html
ncguy 5pts Hmmmm everyone has pretty much duked this out so guess I don't have to comment - oh well maybe next time. Sorry I've been on vacation
Motownmojo 5pts Yes but all of the really powerful stuff will be dying out soon, so once this version is dead do you think that the AMG, M division, and the RS cars will have that much power anytime soon? BMW have done a great jog making the 530i, it is a great car. 30 mpg out of a 3481 lb. car is pretty good, and 6.5 sec to 60 is quick without doubt. I also agree that the Muscle cars need to lose weight, it helps everywhere. Then there is the 4.6 vs. the 3.0, I personally would take the 4.6 because of sound and low end torque. Personally while driving in the real world I'd bet the Stang and the 530 would get very similar gas mileage with manual transmissions because the extra torque means you don't need to go high up into the rev range to get moving at a decent speed.
america_sucks 5pts Forget comparing this Mustang to the new Camaro or Zr-1 Vette. It doesn't come close. It belongs on the new Dodge Ram TV adds side by side with the truck it shares its styling with. The same TV add where the retarded 40 something guys are making "Hemi" sounds like 5 year olds. All while high Fiving each other and jumping through fire. This car would be much nicer with dually wheels and a 5th wheel tow package.
america_sucks 5pts Why does this mustang look so much like the new 2010 Dodge truck from the front??? Same ugly slant back head lights and stupid Wide mouth bass grill.
-RWC- 5pts Hey Motown it gets better MPG than any comprable Lincoln, Mercury, Buick, Cadillac or Chrysler, and it is available with 4WD. Theres a reason BMW is offering a small 3.0 liter against 4.6 liter competition, its about efficiency and MPG while still having some punch, well sure they could go all out and twin-turbo charge the tiny engine to 400 bhp and boosting the turbo, give the V-8 a pair of turbos and 550 bhp, and strap on a couple of turbos to their M5 V10 with 600-700 bhp. to compete with the CTS-V, but they are smarter than that, they arent bluntly ignoring these new fuel-efficiency standards in the form of CAFE.
Motownmojo 5pts bet you that you don't get one million miles to the gallon and no 4WD, that is too bad. :grin: :P
-RWC- 5pts BTW Im about to buy a 2006 BMW 530i with 40k miles on it, what do you all think of it? It gets 30 MPG, has 255 bhp, weighs just 3400 lbs, does 0-60 in 6.5 all at the same time. It is by far the best car Ive ever driven, simple words cannot describe the poise and precision of its handling, I love it so what do you guys think?
dodgeram09 5pts fallsoldier are u stupidthe srt8 compares to the gtr500 not the r/tthe r/t competes with the gtand by the waythe r/t outran the gtboth tested by motortrend luzer
-RWC- 5pts The Mustang doesnt have independent suspension, it has a live axle which handles worse and is cheaper Fallsoldier.
Cristhian702 5pts lol at people comparing this car in any way to the M3 and RS4. Bottom line they need to get the weight of these cars down...
Fall 5pts You people are hypocritz, first off its 540 hp for 45k, 0-60 (4.0-4.3 Est.) quarter mile (12.3-12.5 Est.)based on KR configure. 3900lbs...Camaro V6 weighs 3700 V8 3900 challenger 4000lbs, never saw any comments like these on their pages. People hate the mustang because it is the BMW 3 series of its own segment. This is a beautiful car and you are all missing the point. The mustang has always been provided by Ford for cheap fun, an independent suspension saves 5k off the price of the mustang while improving take off. Since when did all of are American roads become twist and turns. Think before you type... P.S. btw its cheaper then its competition and faster than Challenger RT. As well as more features (glass roof, navigation, sync, rims, engine upgrades.)
Brendon Bookman 5pts @-RWC- I will take the iron block, supercharged V8, please. I think I can find more for a lot less domestically than any turbocharged import. I don't think some of those brands are all that durable or reliable.. I think that 2010 GT500 is built far better than many who think a Mustang is a Mustang realize. 5W-50 Full Synthetic, reinforced cluth, iron block, forged internals....this car is going to be around for a while. I'll bet a lot longer than the average 2011GT. Few German/Japanese luxury performace sedans are worth what they cost (at least not to me). In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the Japanese cars of the early 1990's last longer than the ones now. This fossil will last.
Brendon Bookman 5pts @benjithrillz It wasn't years behind the competition with regard to the engine. Some may laugh, but I'm not taking this car to a drag race or track. My ex-gf totaled my 2011 GT and I decided I wasn't going to drive a V6 because of it. I wanted an iron block. The 2010 was the best of the 5.4L iron block engines, and best transmission, too. This car performs plenty well for me. I think the engine is made much better than the 5.0L. This car must last with no catastrophic system failure. I'm a Chevy guy taking a big chance, Ford. I'll do my part. Please do yours.
Brendon Bookman 5pts @-RWC- A brand new 500 HP V10 powered BMW M5 is rated to go from 0 to 60 MPH in 4.5 seconds for $80,000. For half of that you can get a Pontiac G8 GXP that will be nipping on the Bimmer's heels all day long. With the way that thing look for Pontiac, it is advisable to hurry up and grab one of these why you still can, especially because GM is currently offering a $3,500 rebate. Here it claims an $80,000 BMW M5 does 0-60 slower than the $45,000 Shelby. Doesn't that say something, too? For about $40,000 less you get a stronger engine. What sap would buy an $80,000 BMW that is not as fast as a Mustang? Seems like a lot of $ for a car that can't quite catch a Ford of any kind. Wouldn't surprise me if the GT500 lasted longer, too. Read more: http://www.topspeed.com/cars/pontiac/2010-pontiac-g8-gxp-ar76845.html#ixzz2YigICQg1


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Where's LeBron Playing Next Year? Not For These Five Teams
Here we go again. Welcome to Lebronapalooza 2014! LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh all have until June 29th to decide whether or not they will trigger the opt-in years in their contracts, and give this Big Three thing another go at it, and Heat Nation anxiously awaits their decisions. The second biggest off-season in Miami Heat history is under way, and like 2010, it's strike it rich or bust for Miami.
The main difference between this year's free agency and 2010's is the fact that the Miami Heat are the ones with the girl, they are just looking to redo their vows. LeBron James has a plethora of options at his disposal when it comes time to choose his path, this time around however, the team trying to keep him has a proven track record of success with him, not a history of failures and broken promises.
See also: Birdman Is Leaving: Where Each Heat Player's Future Stands Right Now
In the upcoming weeks ESPN, Fox Sports 1, NBA Network, OWN, Oxygen, and every other channel on earth will spend spend countless hours speculating about which team LeBron will choose and why. What many will ignore, and this won't shock Heat fans, are facts and/or logic. While some media will have you believe LeBron can just pick any team he chooses to play for, that's not entirely true. The actual pool of teams he can pick is small, and for many of those teams, the logistics of adding James seem almost down right impossible.
Let's take a look at the most mentioned possible destinations for LeBron, and why they just don't make sense.
1. Cleveland's owner is a crazy oompa-loompa who's already publicly bashed LeBron. Also the Cavs really stink.
Other than that time Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert opened a can of Word Pad comic-sans ass on LeBron James, they have a terrific relationship, built upon trust and mutual respect. Chances are at some point an aging-nostalgic-nearing-the-end-of-the-road-shell-of-himself LeBron returns to his home town Cavs before it's all said and done. For those of you just returning from a ten-year walk-about across the Australian Outback, this is not that time, because LeBron James is still really good at basketball.
Besides the fact that the entire city burnt his jerseys and the owner started a Biggie-Tupac beef with him when he left, the team itself is nowhere near contention. Outside of Kyrie Irving, the Cavaliers have no proven players to surround LeBron with, and even Irving is an injury-plagued mystery at this point in his career. Listen, LeBron has shocked everyone before, so if he choose to build a team in his hometown with young players, fine. I just have a hard time believing he wants to put hundreds of millions of dollars in the pockets of a man who publicly blasted him and acted like a scorned plantation owner when he left.
2. The New York Knichahahahahaahaha, no.
Seriously, stop it New York, you're the Miami Dolphins of basketball. You have a shot at LeBron James like the Dolphins had a shot at Peyton Manning. Of all the possibilities, this is the least likely one, mainly because to even afford LeBron the Knicks would have to rid themselves of Carmelo Anthony and everyone else worth a damn, plus Amare' Stoudemire. The Knicks coach is Derrick Fisher, who has never coached a game in his life, and was playing for the Thunder last month. That's not an ingredient I've seen included in a any "win-now" recipes posted to my Pinterest. The Knicks are paying $17 million to their coach and Phil Jackson, neither of which have done the job they have next season, so it doesn't seem like the place LeBron would take a $3 million contract to go play.
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Edward King (bishop of Lincoln)
Edward King (29 December 1829 - 8 March 1910) was an Anglican bishop.
He was the second son of the Reverend Walker King, Archdeacon of Rochester and rector of Stone, Kent, and grandson of the Reverend Walker King, Bishop of Rochester; his nephew was the Reverend Robert Stuart King, who played football for England in 1882.
King graduated from Oriel College, Oxford, was ordained in 1854, and four years later became chaplain and lecturer at Cuddesdon Theological College (now Ripon College Cuddesdon). He was principal at Cuddesdon from 1863 to 1873, when Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone appointed him Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology at Oxford and canon of Christ Church. King became the principal founder of the leading catholic theological college in the Church of England, St Stephen's House, Oxford, now a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford. To the world outside, King was known at this time as an Anglo-Catholic and one of Edward Pusey's most intimate friends (even serving as a pall-bearer at his funeral in 1882), but in Oxford, and especially among the younger men, he exercised influence by his charm and sincerity. King had also been devoted to his mother, who assisted him at Cuddesdon and Oxford by keeping his house and entertaining guests as his position required. King never married and his mother died in 1883.
A leading member of the English Church Union, Dr King fought prosecutions in lay courts under the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 (which Archbishop of Canterbury Archibald Campbell Tait and Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli had secured over Gladstone's opposition, in order to restrict the growing Oxford Movement). In 1879 King's writings concerning Holy Communion were criticized as Romish in a pamphlet by a local vicar.[1]
In 1885, upon Gladstone's invitation when he again became Prime Minister, King accepted consecration as Bishop of Lincoln, which he noted had been the diocese of John Wesley. The consecrating bishops included Archbishop of Canterbury Edward White Benson, with presenting Bishops John Mackarness of Oxford and Woodford of Ely. Other consecrating bishops were Bishop Temple of London, Bishop Thorold of Rochester, Bishop Wilberforce of Newcastle, Bishop Trollope of Nottingham, Bishop How of Bedford, Bishop Carter of Ripon and Bishop Bousfield of Pretoria.[2] Although Tait had died in 1882, the Puritan faction continued, including at Lincoln where J. Hanchard published a sketch of King's life, criticizing his Romish tendencies.[3] Beginning in 1888, based on a complaint by a churchwarden from Cleethorpes concerning a service conducted at St Peter at Gowts, Lincoln, funded by the Church Association, King was prosecuted before Archbishop Benson for six ritualistic practices.[4] In his "Lincoln Judgment", Archbishop Benson found Bishop King guilty on two counts and also required him to conduct the manual acts during the prayer of consecration during the Holy Communion service in such a way that the people could see them.[5] Archbishop Benson specifically allowed the use of lighted candles, and mixing of elements, as well as the eastward position during the service. The Church Association appealed the Bishop's process to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, but was denied in 1890.[6] Bishop King loyally conformed his practices to the archbishop's judgment. Some considered the process a repudiation of the anti-ritualism movement,[7] though it proved physically and emotionally taxing for King, whose physique had never been particularly robust. Moreover, a decade later, after Frederick Temple succeeded Benson as Archbishop of Canterbury, he and the Archbishop of York prosecuted two priests for using incense and candles, and notified Bishop King of Lincoln of their condemnation, which he abided.[8] Later, many of King's liturgical practices became commonplace, including making the sign of the cross during the absolution and blessing, and mixture of elements during the service, for which the criticisms had been upheld as an innovation.
As Bishop, King devoted himself unsparingly to pastoral work in his diocese, particularly among the poor, both farmers and industrial workers, as well as condemned prisoners. He supported the Guild of Railway men, as well as chaplains in the Boer War and missionaries. In 1909 he visited Oxford in his episcopal capacity for the 400th anniversary of Brasenose College.[9] Irrespective of his High Church views, he won the affection and reverence of all classes by his real saintliness of character.
Death and Legacy[edit]
Bishop Edward King died in Lincoln as matins sounded on March 8, 1910 and was interred in the Cathedral's cloister. The calendar of the Church of England remembers him (with the status of a Lesser Festival or 'black letter day') on 8 March, the date of his death.
In 2010, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams scheduled an episcopal visit to Lincoln to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Bishop King's death. In addition to citing King's contributions to pastoral theology and reinvention of episcopal practices, in an interview with the local church paper Archbishop Williams called the former prosecution an embarrassment to the church and the state.[10]
- ^ George William Erskine Russell, Edward King, Sixtieth Bishop of Lincoln: A Memoir, p. 69 at http://books.google.com/books?id=ghwLAAAAYAAJ&pg
- ^ Russell, pp. 103-104
- ^ Russell pp. 143-144.
- ^ Russell, pp. 146-147, p. 166 et seq.
- ^ Russell, pp. 180-181
- ^ Will Adam,Legal Flexibility and the Mission of the Church: Dispensation and Economy in Ecclesiastical Law (Ashgate Publishing 2013) athttp://books.google.com/books?id=TQCiAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT128&lpg=PT128&dq=edward+king+public+worship+regulation+act&source=bl&ots=3ssXbr-zqF&sig=skFLZtMG696IlscxZ3mytSUJ-SI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iQ0bU9bCCsXv0AGd2IHwBQ&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=edward%20king%20public%20worship%20regulation%20act&f=false since no page numbers
- ^ Gerald Parsons, James Richard Moore (eds.), Religion in Victorian Britain: Traditions (Manchester University Press, 1988), p. 56
- ^ Russell, pp. 249-250.
- ^ Russell, pp. 276-
- ^ http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/545/bishop-of-the-poor-edward-king-reinvented-the-role-of-diocesan-bishop
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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She believed in the signs of the zodiac, logical explanations, constellations and the theories of mankind but one thing she refused to believe in was love at first sight. True she wrote off the butterflies in her stomach as nothing more than her stomach acid digesting her food and her sweaty palms was nothing more than her Palmar Hyperhidrosis. Her explanation for every time it happened around you? Quite simple actually. You threw off her body chemical composition causing the good kind of doubt in her mind. She's falling for you like a modern age Cinderella.
She stands atop the highest pillars broken and begging, no pleading for the higher powers or some unseen force to hear her anguished cries. Like the gasoline fueling the fire, her heart is ignited and she knows what it means to feel, to be the moth attracted to the flames. You are the flames and she is but the moth, attracted to each other like that of a molecular pull. Slowly but surely she is admitting her defeat. She is the fly entangled in your spider web. But is she yours to keep?
She no longer wants to talk in third person. She's unsure of everything now. She changes all her she's and hers to I. I can not stand on my own. I can not remain strong for much longer. I can and will break piece by piece, limb by limb. I fell in love with disaster. We had an affair but now, now because I met you, I am unsure of myself. Now more so than ever before. Please tell me this effect won't last, that I won't go insane, that I'll be normal.
I continue to doubt, no longer to be the "she" who believed
in all things beautiful ,the stars, the constellations but blossomed into a darker me. I flirt and sleep with numbness and emptiness. My tongue swells every time I
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If you follow Creative Commons' various social media outlets, you've probably heard us talking about GNU MediaGoblin's crowdfunding campaign. Today is the last day to support the campaign, so we wanted to give it one last shout-out.
CC alumnus Chris Webber is MediaGoblin's lead developer. It's an open-source media-hosting platform. It's already CC-enabled, but Chris and his team have some exciting plans for its future, so they're running a funding campaign with the help of our friends at the Free Software Foundation. Watch the video to see what's on the horizon:
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Comments OffCourse Creation 101 with P2PU
P2PU is giving a webinar next week to help new and seasoned community members kickstart their courses, especially those just beginning to flesh out their ideas for a School of Open course! P2PU Learning Lead, Vanessa Gennarelli, will give an overview of the P2PU course design, and then dive into the step-by-step process of creating a course on the P2PU platform. I will also go over some tips and guidelines specific to creating a course as part of the School of Open, a community initiative that will offer courses on the meaning and application of "open" on the web and offline environments.
What: Course Creation 101 with P2PU (a webinar)
When: Wednesday, November 14 at 11am US pacific / 2pm US eastern
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Comments OffCC Europe urges European Commission to support Open Education
In August we wrote about the European Commission's request for information on the topic Opening Up Education. The point of the consultation is to gauge the need for EU action to promote the adoption and use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Information Communication Technologies (ICT) in education. Several Creative Commons affiliates in Europe have submitted a joint response to the survey. The jurisdictions signing onto the response include Luxembourg, Denmark, Greece, Germany, Belgium, United Kingdom, Sweden, Czech Republic, France, Portugal, Serbia, Poland, Netherlands, Finland, Bulgaria, and Ireland.
The joint response urges the Commission to support the recommendations in the 2012 Paris OER Declaration, which was unanimously supported by UNESCO member nations at the World Open Educational Resources Congress on 20-22 June 2012. As described in the consultation document (PDF), "the EU will use the tools at its disposal (policy guidance, EU regulation whenever relevant, funding mechanisms, exchange of good practices and innovative pilots)." By leveraging these various tools in alignment with the suggestions laid out in the Paris Declaration, the Commission can be very effective in promoting the development and use of OER. Those recommendations urge UNESCO member nations to:
- Foster awareness and use of OER.
- Facilitate enabling environments for use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).
- Reinforce the development of strategies and policies on OER.
- Promote the understanding and use of open licensing frameworks.
- Support capacity building for the sustainable development of quality learning materials.
- Foster strategic alliances for OER.
- Encourage the development and adaptation of OER in a variety of languages and cultural contexts.
- Encourage research on OER.
- Facilitate finding, retrieving and sharing of OER.
- Encourage the open licensing of educational materials produced with public funds.
The European Commission is in a position to help coordinate, promote, and support most — if not all — of these recommendations. In addition, these recommendations align with the Europe 2020 priorities, especially in increasing effective investments in education by encouraging free open access to publicly funded educational content.
The Paris Declaration reaffirms OER as "teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions." The EC should support this definition of OER so that users of OER know the rights available to them and so that producers of OER get the credit they deserve. Since a clear legal framework is crucial to the success of OER, we strongly suggest that the EC consider promoting the use of Creative Commons licenses and public domain tools like the CC0 Public Domain Dedication. CC licenses are globally applicable and are seen as the gold standard for open content licensing. It would be beneficial for the EC to adopt CC licenses because they are already established and understood, instead of creating customized licenses that may not interoperate with existing solutions.
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Comments OffThe OER Policy Registry Needs Your Help
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It is an exciting time for the global open educational resources (OER) movement. In the past few months, several governments and institutions have shown their support for OER:
- California Passes Groundbreaking Open Textbook Legislation
- National 'Digital School' Program in Poland
- British Columbia Government Lends Support to Open Textbooks
- US Department of Labor Invests in Open Educational Resources
- UNESCO 2012 Paris OER Declaration
Creative Commons believes that there is a clear role for government support of OER. When governments require open licenses on publicly funded resources, they ensure those resources benefit the most people possible. Publicly funded resources should be openly licensed resources. The public should have access to what it paid for.
Advocating for government OER policies is not always easy or straightforward. Earlier this year, CC announced that we would coordinate and steward a collection of OER open policies. Since then, many members of the global OER community have been working together to compile a database of OER policies as well as toolkits, presentations, and other supporting materials. We call it the OER Policy Registry.
The policies in the OER Policy Registry are specific to OER, but may include general open access, ICT, or online learning policies that directly enable OER. There are currently over 60 policies, but we need your help to improve the registry.
First, please add new or edit existing OER open policies. We've put together some instructions for navigating, editing, and adding to the policy registry. If you have any questions, please email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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MOOCs — or Massive Open Online Courses — have been getting a lot of attention lately. Just in the last year or so, there's been immense interest in the potential for large scale online learning, with significant investments being made in companies (Coursera, Udacity, Udemy), similar non-profit initiatives (edX) and learning management systems (Canvas, Blackboard). The renewed interest in MOOCs was ignited after last year's Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course offered via Stanford University, when over 160,000 people signed up to take the free online course. The idea of large-scale, free online education has been around for quite some time. Some examples include David Wiley's 2007 Introduction to Open Education; Connectivism and Connective Knowledge, led by George Siemens and Stephen Downes in 2008; Open Content Licensing for Educators; and many others.
A central component to these earlier iterations of the MOOC was the dual meaning of "open." Justin Reich writes in EdWeek,
The original MOOCs…were "open" in two respects. First, they were open enrollment to students outside the hosting university. That is open as in "open registration." Second, the materials of the course were licensed using Creative Commons licenses so their materials could be remixed and reused by others. That is open as in "open license."
These dual characteristics of "open" are also core to Open Educational Resources (OER). Hewlett's updated OER definition begins: "OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others." That is, for an educational resource to be "open" it must be both gratis (available at no-cost) and libre (everyone has the legal rights to repurpose the resource). An OER cannot be freely available or openly licensed – it must be both freely available and openly licensed (or in the public domain) to be an OER.
The new cohort of MOOCs are distinct from the original MOOCs in that they are "open," thus far, in only one respect: they are open enrollment. The new MOOCs have not yet openly licensed their courses. As MOOCs continue to develop course content and experiment with various business models, we think it's crucial that they consider adopting open licenses as a default on their digital education offerings. In general, the value proposition can be enhanced for the new MOOCs and their users if the MOOCs openly license their courses. A few ideas about why this is important:
One goal of MOOCs is to serve tens / hundreds of thousands more people with high-quality educational content. By adopting Creative Commons (CC) licenses, MOOCs:
- can increase the reach of their materials by making the rights to use and adapt them crystal clear from the start;
- will be able to serve even more learners because they'll be granting legal permissions to use their course content in other educational settings; and
- do not have to respond to individual permissions requests from users and can instead focus on delivering quality educational content to the largest number of students.
- Commercially-focused MOOCs can adopt CC licenses to make their MOOCs truly "open" (free of cost and free of most copyright restrictions) and still leverage the scale of these courses (with potentially tens of thousands of students) and the MOOC platform to charge for value-added services, such as the coordination of study groups, course certification, secure assessments, employee recruiting, and print-on-demand textbooks.
- MOOCs can provide features their users want by incorporating open licensing options. Recently, the education technology company Blackboard has permitted users to upload educational content under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Since many MOOCs want to support individuals who want to share their creations as well as open collaboration between course participants, it may be worthwhile for the MOOCs to support users with this easy-to-implement feature.
- By supporting open licensing, MOOCs will be positively contributing to the Open Educational Resources movement, reaffirmed in the 2012 Paris OER Declaration. MOOCs can be leaders and innovators for OER, increase their enrollment numbers, and receive the goodwill that comes along with being an active participant in this global open education movement.
- Online education knows no language barriers, and a large percentage of MOOC participants are logging on from outside of North America (where most of the new initiatives are based). For example, in a recent MIT MOOC course with 155,000 registrations, students came from 160 countries (PDF). If MOOCs want to continue to attract and serve an international audience, they might focus on multilingual course delivery. It should be noted that MOOCs that release course content under Creative Commons licenses (at least the licenses that do not contain the "NoDerivatives" condition) automatically grant permission for users to make translations of the materials. MIT Open CourseWare courses have been translated into at least 10 languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Thai, French, German, Vietnamese, and Ukrainian. Coursera and Udacity have already partnered with the crowdsourced captioning service Amara.
- Openly licensed MOOC resources can give rise to interesting new courses and educational products and services. For instance, materials released under a license like CC BY can be repurposed and reused on sites like Wikipedia and hundreds of Open CourseWare projects. Adopting CC licensing can support the conditions necessary for innovation that is difficult to predict (or plan for). In the long run, supporting the open ecosystem is beneficial both for commercial and non-profit MOOC initiatives. In addition, many educators and learners want to be able to use the resources outside of the MOOC environment, and open licensing grants this permission in advance. CC licensing opens up a much broader range of pedagogical approaches that enable all MOOC participants, instructors and students alike the ability to generate, use, and share content with each other.
- Many MOOCs are concerned that their content will be "stolen" by competitors. However, this fear is speculative. There are features of the CC licenses that can help assuage the fears of MOOCs. For example, all the CC licenses provide for attribution to the original author, preservation of any copyright notice, and the URL to the original work. When MOOC material are licensed under a CC license permitting the creation of adaptations, the adapted resources must be clearly marked to indicate that changes have been made, and a credit — reasonable to the means and medium being used — that the MOOC material has been used in the adaptation. Also, CC licenses do not grant permission to use anyone's trademarks or official insignia, nor do the licenses affect other laws that may be used to protect one's reputation or other rights — those rights are all reserved and may be enforced separately by the MOOC. Finally, it should be noted that the original educational materials remain intact and preserved, exactly as released (most typically) on the MOOC website. So, there will be a record of the original publishing of the content. But beyond these features of the CC license, community and business norms make it very unlikely that competitor MOOCs will "swoop in" and republish full courses simply because the open license technically makes this a possibility. Norms of academic practice typically carry more weight than any legal restriction made possible through use of an open license.
#jiscwebinar What Is A MOOC? / Giulia Forsythe / CC BY-NC-SA
MOOCs should address copyright and licensing early on so they are clear to users how they can utilize and reuse educational materials offered on the site. MOOCs should choose to adopt an open license that meets their goals, but at minimum it is recommended that they choose a public, standardized license that grants to its users the "4Rs" of open content: the ability to Reuse, Revise, Remix, and Redistribute the resources. The more permissions MOOCs can offer on their content, the better. Online peer learning community P2PU has provided some useful documentation about how to choose a license. And CC maintains easy-to-understand information about how to properly implement the CC license on websites and platforms. Of course, it is important for MOOCs and users of MOOCs to understand some of the copyright and intellectual property considerations that they should know about before they adopt an open license for educational content.
MOOCs have captured the public mindshare as an interesting way to deliver high quality education to huge numbers of online learners. In order to maximize the educational benefits that MOOCs promise to provide, they must be "open" in both enrollment and licensing. MOOCs should seriously consider applying CC licenses to content they build, asking contributing Universities to openly licnese their courses, and making CC licensing part of their MOOC platforms. By doing so, they'll be best positioned to serve a diverse set of users and support the flourishing open education movement.
For more information, see this Association of Research Libraries issue brief on MOOCs (CC BY) by Brandon Butler.
6 Comments »Open.Michigan leads real world School of Open class
Victoria Lungu Leading a School of Open Challenge / Open.Michigan / CC BY
Last Friday, Open.Michigan helped a group of students get Creative Commons savvy in an offline version of the School of Open's "Get CC Savvy" challenge, a course originally designed for independent online learners. For those yet unaware, the School of Open is a growing community initiative that will provide educational resources and professional development courses on the meaning and impact of "openness" in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, research, and more. Though offline School of Open workshops and activities have been held (see previous School of Open updates), they have primarily focused on creating new courses for the School; Open.Michigan's Fun Friday session was the first time actual course material was taught in a real world group setting.
Victoria Lungu, student at the University of Michigan's School of Information, who co-organized and led the session with her Open.Michigan colleagues, writes about how the event went below.
Last Friday I ran a workshop at the University of Michigan where a group of eight worked through the P2PU School of Open challenge "Get CC Savvy." A year ago or even a few months ago, I would have never imagined taking part in such an exciting opportunity.
So what got me here? Well, to put it simply, a class with Kristin Fontichiaro at the School of Information and her choice to pair me with mentor Emily Puckett Rodgers at Open.Michigan. The class and mentorship were structured to give me the chance to explore my personal interest in open education and informal learning opportunities with a focus on information literacy and teaching.
After a few conversations and brainstorming sessions, Emily and I aimed to try and get the educational potential of the School of Open offline and into a group setting. It was an experiment to see how well an online and physical learning environment could work together.
We had some questions.
- Were the School of Open challenges able to support this kind of learning?
- What benefits would there be to learning something like Creative Commons in this sort of setting?
- How do we record the evidence and learning that is taking place?
We couldn't answer these questions, or any of the other many questions we had. But we were ready to learn something from this event.
The session drew in participants of all different backgrounds from experts in CC/open licensing at Open.Michigan to students interested in librarianship, information policy, and even a student Wikipedian at the University of Michigan. The informal setting allowed for flexibility and creativity on how the session would evolve. I wanted participants to pick how they wanted to learn as long as they followed two measures of engagement:
- That they created an account with P2PU if they didn't have one, and
- To comment and engage with the actual challenge and its tasks in the discussion areas.
I asked for participants to abide by these measures to encourage them to preserve evidence of the types of learning and questions that were inspired by the session and to encourage them to (hopefully) explore P2PU and the School of Open more at a later date.
University of Michigan students get CC savvy / Victoria Lungu / CC BY
As seen above, and as evidenced in the "Get CC Savvy" challenge discussion fields, eight of us worked together to explore the content, ask questions, post comments, and discuss personal perspectives and experiences relating to Creative Commons. We were even lucky enough to have an audio clip captured (it can be found and listened to in the discussion section of Task 3 in Get CC Savvy) and a fairly immediate response from Jane Park, CC Project Manager and P2PU founding volunteer, to one of the participants questions. The multimedia evidence and outside engagement really enhanced the experience and created a rich environment for learning.
While the hour and a half session allowed for this in-depth exploration of Creative Commons, it also taught us about how group dynamics and other factors impact the takeaways and experience.
- This experience was unique in that it actually had experts in the room, including Open Education Specialist Piet Kleymeer who helped build the challenge. While this won't always be the case for others who choose to develop workshops like this, it definitely allowed for a more dynamic conversation and avenues of exploration than if there had not been someone to field questions. Even though we were fortunate in this aspect, it makes me question how deeply one might explore content like Creative Commons in an online module without that facilitation.
- Sometimes things built for individual work and short answer don't always help facilitate a group effort to work through the material. Some of the exercise answers and singular tasks required more front-end effort to structure it into conversations to draw out the participatory aspect of the workshop. While P2PU and School of Open are not necessarily built to support live group workshops as a main source of learning, is there a better way to facilitate this method of learning the challenge content on P2PU?
- Capturing the learning that happens in a group can be hard (especially when working through an online module). Early on, we were so involved in the conversation that we had hardly realized no one had captured the ideas we had discussed. Sometimes a discussion board might capture central ideas or themes but it cannot capture the dialogue and discussion that leads to ideas or encourage further exploration that happens in groups. Some of the best learning occurs in collaborative spaces and it is something that should be preserved and shared when possible.
With all this in mind, would I do it again? Definitely. It is inspiring to participate in a conversation with minds that strive to understand, explore, and challenge ideas, new or mastered. The opportunity to see the group engagement play out before my eyes shows me the meaningfulness of the material and the ability of collaborative thought to spark interest beyond the framework of a challenge– where informal learning really starts to take shape.
Get Involved
Kudos to Victoria and Open.Michigan for piloting this School of Open class! If you'd also like to contribute to building this initiative:
- Visit http://schoolofopen.org. Register for a P2PU account and take or help improve one of the courses listed in various stages of development.
- Join the discussion and introduce yourself and your field of "open" interest: https://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open.
- Create a course. You can create directly on the P2PU platform or use http://pad.p2pu.org for collaborative editing. Just make sure to email the list or the Project Manager (that's me) with a link to the working draft so we can help.
Call for the Release of Bassel Khartabil
Earlier this year, Creative Commons issued a statement in support of Bassel Khartabil, a longtime CC volunteer who has been detained by Syrian authorities since March 15. Amnesty International recently released a document with information suggesting that Bassel has been ill-treated and even tortured. This morning, we sent a letter to President Bashar al-Assad, Minister of Foreign Affairs Walid al-Mu'allim, and Minister of Defense 'Imad al-Fraij; urging that Bassel be released unless he is promptly charged with an internationally recognized criminal offense. We urge Syrian authorities to grant Bassel immediate access to his family, a lawyer of his choice, and all necessary medical treatment.
Bassel has played a crucial role in the open technology and culture communities, both in Syria and around the world. Through his service as Creative Commons' project lead in Syria and his numerous contributions to the advancement of open source and related technologies, Bassel has spent his career working toward a more free Internet. Many of us at Creative Commons have become friends of Bassel's over the years. All of us have benefited from his leadership and expertise.
Please stand with us in support of Bassel. Amnesty International has provided instructions for contacting Syrian authorities. For more information, visit freebassel.org.
Read Creative Commons' call for the release of Bassel Khartabil (PDF).
2 Comments »European Regional Meeting at OKFestival
Creative Commons Europe Regional Meeting in Helsinki / Kristina Alexanderson / CC BY
In September, a number of CC's European affiliates congregated at the Open Knowledge Festival taking place in Helsinki, Finland, for a regional meeting. Held as a side event over one day of the festival, the meeting was attended by representatives of our affiliates in 17 different European countries.
Each meeting between our affiliates is an excellent opportunity to network and bridge the geographic, as well as cultural, distance between the various jurisdictions they represent. As such, it's not surprising that one of the more significant outcomes from the meeting was a series of discussions starting between the affiliates after the actual meeting.
During the meeting itself, the affiliates got to hear about Creative Commons global strategy work from Jessica Coates, our Global Network Manager, and about policy work from Timothy Vollmer, our Manager of Policy and Data. Looking towards December, we also discussed Creative Commons' upcoming 10th birthday and the activities and events taking place around it. One of the outcomes of the meeting was the idea to create a Creative Commons mixtape with Creative Commons licensed music from around Europe, covering the last 10 years, to be released around the 10th birthday.
In the weeks following the regional meetings, on the initiative of Alek Tarkowski (our lead for Creative Commons in Poland), the affiliates and regional coordinator put together a proposal to the European Union Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency's (EACEA) call for proposals on support for organisations active at the European level in the field of culture. The activities of the proposal that we sent aim to encourage and support cultural institutions in their work to maximize public access to their cultural data and content. Through a series of workshops including experts of the network and participation from European museums, the European affiliates will develop guidelines and instructions on how to increase circulation of cultural data and content in the digital environment at the legal, technical, and organizational levels.
Such a cooperative approach to putting together a compelling proposal in such a short amount of time could not have happened without the ability to meet in person from time to time. While not a direct outcome of the meeting, it exemplifies the relevance of the regional and global meetings of Creative Commons, and the European group is already looking forward for when we next meet, at latest in about a year's time for the next global summit.
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Oppikirjamaraton: How to Write an Open Textbook in a Weekend
One Thursday a few weeks ago, just as most of us at Creative Commons were on our way home for the evening, we saw this startling tweet:
@creativecommons You need to know: ~30 maths enthusiasts begin a CC-BY course book hackathon in five hours in Helsinki, Finland.
— Joonas Mäkinen (@JoonasD6) September 28, 2012
Of course we had to learn more. I contacted Joonas Mäkinen to get more information, and he explained to me that he'd helped organize a team to write a secondary school mathematics textbook over a weekend, in an event called Oppikirjamaraton ("textbook marathon"). The book was to be licensed CC BY, so that anyone could reuse or remix it in Finland or around the world.
The text — now in version .91 in GitHub — is called Vapaa Matikka. The title translates as "Free Math," but since matikka can also mean "burbot," the book's title also reads as "free fish" and its slogan — Matikka verkosta vapauteen — could be either a rallying cry to keep educational resources free and open or an instruction to free a fish from a net.
But I was interested in more than math puns. I wanted to find out how the book sprint had gone, what the team was planning to do with the textbook, and what advice he had for others organizing similar events. This interview was conducted by email between October 2 and 5.
What range of math concepts does the book cover?
It is a text book for the first advanced level mathematics course in Finnish upper secondary (high) schools. Although people who just start the course have usually just finished their mandatory primary school studies, we decided to take quite a "for dummies" approach and try to minimize all the prerequisites.
We introduce rational numbers, go through the arithmetic of them and real numbers in general. Power rules and roots follow and lead to the very basics of equation solving and the concept of a function. The most important applications of all this are proportionality and percentage calculations. Even with the freedom of writing we had we were tied to the current curriculum.
Tell me more about the curriculum requirements. Are they the same throughout Finland?
There is one national curriculum and everyone follows it. The only standardized tests you get are your finals, or matriculation examinations as they are known here, so some book series approach topics in a slightly different order than others. There is some flexibility and writing a course book based on the curriculum was easy.
Doesn't change the fact that the curriculum sucks, though. The first reaction from a lot of participants was: "Can we write a new curriculum first?" And I understand them. We don't have wars over content as I've understood you have in the USA, though. It's more about how certain topics are grouped together in courses.
In the case of advanced level mathematics, there are 10 national, mandatory courses that consist of approximately 18 75-minute lessons. Plus a few optional courses, plus a lot more if you're in a science- or math-focused school. An example of a highly non-mathematical, non-systematic grouping would be for example a course which is supposed to cover sequences and trigonometric functions. These two have nothing in common at this level. They could if series expansions and complex numbers were taught earlier, but nooooo…
Oppikirjamaraton (Caption added) / Joonas Mäkinen / CC BY
Vesa Linja-Aho / Senja Opettaa / CC BY
What was the breakdown of participants? Was everyone involved an educator? Did participants have prior experience writing or editing textbooks?
There were over 20 people who partook in writing that weekend. We had regular upper secondary teachers, university students (mathematics and computer science), a teacher of automotive electronics, my own private students, and even a couple of university professors working both locally and remotely. We had our own inner circle of enthusiastic grammar nazis, too, to help us actually write grammatically and typographically better materials than you see in some books by big publishers. The diversity of people involved turned out to be a great resource for producing a variety of problems and perspectives.
A few people had experience writing and publishing a "normal," old-fashioned commercial book, but that experience didn't seem to divide people into groups at all when we actually started working.
How did you organize yourselves? Were people's roles in the project determined before the weekend began?
Vesa Linja-aho, who got the idea of this booksprint/hackathon in the first place, was our de facto PR and bureaucracy guy. Lauri Hellsten promised to take the main role in creating much-needed graphics at the set. Other than them, no writer was predestined any specific work. Surely quite a few people had their own topics they really, really wanted to write about, but all in all the whole writing process was very spontaneous and dynamic.
Video in English: youtu.be/ThbUiky4AKA RT @slashdot: Teachers Write an Open Textbook In a Weekend Hackathon bit.ly/Rr78RZ
— Joonas Mäkinen (@JoonasD6) September 30, 2012
Lauri Hellsten / Senja Opettaa / CC BY
How much preparation happened ahead of time? Did you enter the weekend with an outline of the book? Schedules?
After realizing that this could be a big thing we just sort of waited for our friends and friends' friends to fill out a Doodle poll about which weekend we should pick. I planned a table of contents beforehand to have something as a starting point, but it was modified very heavily during Friday and Saturday. Juhapekka Tolvanen made us some LaTeX layout templates beforehand, and we also had one planning meeting but that was not really about content but more about technology: which version management systems we should use, etc. Most of the planning in general was just about getting potential sponsors, writing a press release, checking where we can actually do the writing work, did we have enough laptops, and so on.
One funny copyright anecdote: we had gathered up pretty much all available, related text books. You know, to check how others have explained this and that. Another reason was that in mathematics education (and obviously in other subjects too) there are usually many "pathological" examples and exercises that it's good for everyone to go though, so you keep running into and using the same tasks again and again. Vesa Linja-aho had received a written decision earlier from the local copyright council that exercises do not constitute works and thus are not copyrightable. Nevertheless, a teacher who had written one of the books we had with us commented and reminded us on our Facebook page that it's not right to copy others' work. We got some good laughs out of that.
Siiri Anttonen / Senja Opettaa / CC BY
What did you learn from the experience? What was more difficult than you expected? What advice would you give others planning a similar sprint?
Get the tech side done before you start, and that will save everybody's nerves and time for the actual writing! We used LaTeX to write and typeset the whole book and Github to handle versions, but hassling with both caused a lot of delays during the first two days. Most people were not familiar with Git and version conflicts and other funnies took maybe a half of our time. Just think what we could have achieved if everyone had had their laptops completely ready…
Some guys were still debating if we should add this and that during Saturday and Sunday, and that was something people should try to avoid. In sprints like this, it's always the best to just keep writing more content – it's always easier to comment out or edit something later on. Some arguments got pretty heated a couple of times, but that might also be the lack of sleep talking. Keep it cool and remember to have fun!
Joonas Mäkinen / Senja Opettaa / CC BY
What's next? Is there a revision or review period planned? Are there educators planning to teach from it?
The immediate physiological response after finishing the marathon on Sunday was euphoria. Everyone agreed immediately to organize another sprint. The technical delays and lack of graphics artists made sure that our book didn't reach the level of ready that we'd just send it to printing immediately, but it's alive now: people keep sending "bug reports" over Github and all participants have continued to make improvements: fixing typos, adding exercises, fixing inconsistencies…
Our book is now version 0.9, and we'll wait a couple of weeks till we say it's appropriately ready for translations and focused printing. Though, we've already been hearing that the book has been used as a handbook by a couple of teachers, some have been giving their students exercises from the book and so forth. And of course I and other writers have used it as a resource, too, when teaching our own students. After some polishing we're pretty sure it'll be used in plenty of places. Another kick in popularity will come when we continue with the rest of the courses (since schools don't like to switch book series between courses).
The project was so fun and well-received that we'll have our next sprint on the second course soon!
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A few days after installing WoWMatrix and using it to find Addons, my account was hacked.
We're talking Mac here, not 'Doze. Even still, Blizz suggested that I might have a virus or keylogger, so to be careful, I checked and didn't have one. But I seriously? I never thought that's what happened.
Best I can tell, there's no one to vet WoWMatrix's suggestions, so until I hear otherwise, I'm sticking with Curse.
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