Enquire Within Upon Everything: True Stories of the Wondrous Web

Keynote: eLearning Consortium of Colorado (eLCC) Conference 2014

A Victorian era book represented the best technology of its time to organize, via a crude hypertext system, a collection of world knowledge. In the hands of a young boy growing up in the 1960s, it inspired a spirit of magic, wonder, and the vision of an open portal to the world of information. As an adult, he invented the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee's original vision was of "the Web being so generally used that it became a realistic mirror of the ways in which we work and play and socialize. That was that once the state of our interactions was on line, we could then use computers to help us analyse it, make sense of what we are doing, where we individually fit in, and how we can better work together."

As an open, connected space, the web remains a near infinite place we ought to revel that same wonder. Our educational careers begin in kindergarten, knowing intrinsically the value of sharing. Somewhere between there and graduate school, we lose track of this simple concept, be it worrying about theft of intellectual property or questioning the value of what we do. The open ecology of an Enquire Within Upon Everything web can undermine this limiting attitude and rekindle that sense of wonder. It's all about creating more potential serendipity. Let's celebrate the True Stories of what happens when educators share something openly on the web.

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1. Enquire Within Upon Everything: True Stories of the Wondrous Web go.cogdog.it/elcc2014 Alan Levine • cogdog.info
20. cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo by theirhistory: http://flickr.com/photos/22326055@N06/4332455554/
21. Like a house, every paragraph in "Enquire Within" has its number,—and the Index is the Directory which will explain what Facts, Hints, and Instructions inhabit that number.
25. Suggestion of magic... a portal to the world of information
26. The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information
27. Its universality is essential: the fact that a hypertext link can point to anything, be it personal, local or global, be it draft or highly polished. The World Wide Web: A very short personal history by Tim Berners-Lee May 7, 1998 http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html
28. Its universality is essential: the fact that a hypertext link can point to anything, be it personal, local or global, be it draft or highly polished. The World Wide Web: A very short personal history by Tim Berners-Lee May 7, 1998 http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html This proposal concerns the management of general information about accelerators at CERN. It discusses the problems of loss of information about complex evolving systems and derives a solution based on a distributed hypertext system.
30. Its universality is essential: the fact that a hypertext link can point to anything, be it personal, local or global, be it draft or highly polished. There was a second part of the dream, too, dependent on the Web being so generally used that it became a realistic mirror (or in fact the primary embodiment) of the ways in which we work and play and socialize. The World Wide Web: A very short personal history by Tim Berners-Lee May 7, 1998 http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html
31. Its universality is essential: the fact that a hypertext link can point to anything, be it personal, local or global, be it draft or highly polished. There was a second part of the dream, too, dependent on the Web being so generally used that it became a realistic mirror (or in fact the primary embodiment) of the ways in which we work and play and socialize. That was that once the state of our interactions was on line, we could then use computers to help us analyse it, make sense of what we are doing, where we individually fit in, and how we can better work together. The World Wide Web: A very short personal history by Tim Berners-Lee May 7, 1998 http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html
33. Dexter’s Picture http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/19lzy5/this_is_my_son_dexter_he_picked_these_flowers/
34. Dexter’s Picture http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/19lzy5/this_is_my_son_dexter_he_picked_these_flowers/
35. Dexter’s Picture http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/19lzy5/this_is_my_son_dexter_he_picked_these_flowers/
36. Dexter’s Picture http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/19lzy5/this_is_my_son_dexter_he_picked_these_flowers/
37. Dexter’s Picture http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/19lzy5/this_is_my_son_dexter_he_picked_these_flowers/
43. Námsefnisgerð í HTML
44. www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut
45. thor.vma.is/tut/
46. thor.vma.is/tut/
51. www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut
56. thesealevel.de
57. thesealevel.de
58. thesealevel.de
66. Since then I’ve spoken a few times about the idea that by narrating our work, we can perhaps restore some of what was lost when factories and then offices made work opaque and not easily observable. Software developers are in the vanguard of this reintegration, because our work processes as well as our work processes are fully mediated by digital networks. But it can happen in other lines of work too, and I’m sure it will.
70. Not Default
71. open as in stuff
72. It’s about open attitudes
73. cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo by cogdogblog: http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/344384924/ openness facilitates the unexpected --David Wiley
74. Open Ed 2009
75. http://stories.cogdogblog.com
76. stories.cogdogblog.com
79. I Share Therefore I Go To Hollywood (Jess McCulloch)
80. From Closed to Open Photographer, Teacher, Potential Remixee (Jonathan Worth)
81. Thunder Bay Students Video Seen Aboard International Space Station (Donna Fry)
82. Sharing Sunflower Seeds and Ideas (Jason Toal)
83. http://stories.cogdogblog.com/call-for-stories/
84. start small cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by JD Hancock: http://flickr.com/photos/jdhancock/3961002721/
85. make it useful cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by michael pollak: http://flickr.com/photos/michaelpollak/7249219958/
86. be yourself cc licensed ( BY ) deviantART image by plastikstuhl: http://plastikstuhl.deviantart.com/art/Self-made-Discord-Lamp-356275681
87. participate with others communicate cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by Ars Electronica: http://flickr.com/photos/arselectronica/5516669647/
88. find your comfort level and go beyond public domain wikmedia photo http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Navy_030513- N-5319A-009_Plebes_participate_in_an_11.5_hour_rigorous_physical_and_mental_challenges_at_the_United_States_Naval_Academy.jpg
89. Enquire Within