Open Textbooks and Digital Sanctuaries

CAN OPEN TEXTBOOKS HELP SHAPE THE WEB AND AT THE SAME TIME BE A DIGITAL SANCTUARY FOR ONLINE READING? How Open Textbooks Help Shape the Web Reading Over our Shoulders “Reading activity was once a “black box,” Cohen said, but when virtually every student in a course is using the same platform to study, publishers […]

Hackathons – Safety in Crowds

Can we use Wikipedia Edit-a-thons to give students a safer space and time to edit Wikipedia Science Literacy Edit-a-thons – Collaborative Editing Across BC Institutions Art + Feminism Edithon Art+Feminism is a campaign improving coverage of cis and transgender women, feminism and the arts on Wikipedia. From coffee shops and community centers […]

Moving towards open one step at a time

Can we create open spaces at our institutions where students can create and share? UBC Wiki 79,571 articles by students, staff, and instructors in 950 categories. Training Wheels for Wikipedia A Way for an Institution to Create Open Content http://wiki.ubc.ca/

Can working with students to develop resources and think about privacy and digital identity help them be more resilient on the web and be more aware of their own data usage?

https://digitaltattoo.ubc.ca/

The goal of this site and the Digital Tattoo project is to raise questions, provide examples and links to resources to encourage you to think about your presence online, navigate the issues involved in forming and re-forming your digital identity and learn about your rights and responsibilities as a digital citizen. It’s really just all about making informed decisions and your own decisions.

What does digital resiliency look like?

Working local, impacting global

Learning in the open