Hi Wayne, I'm reading this from within the new Google+ layout, so excuse me while i'm getting orientated. I had hoped that Google+ would have offered a way for "groups" to auto create "circles". No. So I've set up a wikieductor circle and added you and Jim. But you're the driver. I know Jim's set his 'office hours' up. What I can't figure out is how we share the one circle and hangout.
It would be nice if we could try and use a "hangout" to stream from, and maybe use as an office hours' workshop space before, during and after the events. i.e. open your laptop, put it under whoever's talking nose, and stream to people in, and outside, the hangout. Google are going to be offering the ability to record the stream<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-92-93-94-95-96-97-98-99-100.html>before much longer. But in the meantime it would be nice to have a play. Things are moving pretty fast now. I'll point you at my mate, Peter's,presentation to a group of network people <http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/ss0911/item-display.cfm?id=7096>in Brussels this week. You'd might understand, looking at Fig 3 on his presentation, that OERers are at the top level = software as a service, while these guys are trying to figure out what combination of apps, on a Platform, will advance the OER agenda = shared & archived/stored in a cloud. You'll be looking at the content as much as they look at the Platform which might host/share it. Never the twain shall meet. So far. Eventually OERers will want to sign in, using their institutional log on, to a range of Global) services which they can use and share - some commercial - like Google's groups and +, some more attuned to their own particular (disciplinary) community. They'll also want a commons which everyone, teachers and students, can share to build interesting and entertaining courses. So I'll point to this conference<http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-msp/meetings/20110919/>last week, and the SURFconext<http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-msp/meetings/20110919/SURFconext.pdf>doc in particular. We're very close to having our NRENs come up with a way to support global OER communties by coordinating the 'confederation' of a range of services. But they do need some OERers/OCWCers(?) to spec what they want. And Brussels is offering pennies to find out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
