True Stories of Openness

Unexpected Acts Serendipity Sprung from Open Sharing

131 Items by Author CogDog The Story Keeper

The Open Soccer Mom

Creating an open course on my own – Digifoot12 “Case of the Digital Footprint” – I learned that taking a…

Sharing Is Caring

This video describes how 10 year-old Laura Stockman initiated a powerful December charity challenge through her blog post 25 Days…

Sharing Wants to Come Back to You

7 Degrees of MOOC (Rod’s Blog post) 7 Degrees of Connectedness Infographic Twitter: A Cultural Guidebook (eBook that includes Rod’s…

Blogging Connects Me to My Writing Hero

Paradise Lost Read-a-thons (links from Gardner Writes) PowerPop (blog by NY Mary) Five Of My Fifteen Minutes: “My Favorite Town”…

MIT Professors Pitch in to Help My High School Philosophy Class

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Two Connected Learners

Sheri and Denise meet through Edublogs Teacher Challenge in 2011, and have twittered and googled their way to presenting during…

Legend In Her Own Lunchbox

My story is that I found out about the benefits of Twitter through laying on the sofa one Saturday afternoon…

Serendipity via ePals Virtual Literature Circle

The story starts in the 1990s when I connected my class to others via ePals and moves to 2008 while…

Found: Lost Pictures of New York Blizzard

The Amazing Unknown Flower

Photos of Flowers Tagged Unknown (people will find and comment) “I suspect it is a ranunculus” (comment on orange flower)…

A Passing Photo On My Way to the Dentist Ends up in Local Magazine

A (very) small story of openness, for Alan’s session at OpenEd 2009… a street view photo, almost a snapshot that…

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