True Stories of Openness

Unexpected Acts Serendipity Sprung from Open Sharing

28 Items From Category "True Stories of Helping Others"

Sharing as in Vital Organs

Perhaps to me the greatest story ever. When Cable Greene was diagnosed with a life threatening illness and came to…

Where can open practice take you?

If I had known then what I know now… Looking through Twitter in preparation for the upcoming #OER22 conference I…

Enabling and encouraging curiousity

An unimaginative eacher told a child their project wasn’t science. Parent posts on Twitter. Stranger (me) finds a PhD who…

How one online conversation led to a resource educators around the world needed during the pandemic

Just the story of how these community-building resources came to be: https://onehe.org/equity-unbound Part of the story I don’t share in…

The Chess King I Never Knew

I only knew of my great-grandfather David via the stories my grandmother told about her father (and she has passed…

The Amazing People Around Me

I am in a learning community here on the University of Washington Bothell campus. The community is about teaching and…

Amazing CONnections

Life Long Learners (Brian’s blog) My PLN: A Teacher’s Treasure (Brian’s blog) Darren Kurpotawa’s comment suggesting ds106 (Brian’s blog) DS106…

The Conditioned

“A Facebook Page Changes a Homeless Poet’s Life” Raimundo Arruda Sobrinho was homeless in São Paulo, Brazil, for nearly 35…

(Dis)connections

That translates as “Education rhymes with hope.” I think that if I have a message at all, it is that…

JISC’s Use of Alan’s Photos

What is JISC? Rachel Bruce: UK Research and Data Management Where Are We Now (Slideshare, photos on slides 17,18,19, 21)…

From Chanukah Pictures to Math Talk Monday

My little, immediate family has been carrying on a tradition, of sorts, annually around Chanukah. My wife collects candles from…

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