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I Joined the Secret Revolution

I Joined the Secret Revolution

Perhaps you've attended some high brow conference that produces 10 bullet points on "How to Change Education"-- and not much happens. Maybe you work an at institution that restricts you from using a certain technology or forces you to use another. And while the image of a revolutionary edupunk is charming, most of us are not ready to burn down our organizations- we believe in their purpose. Despair not! There is something out there-- an approach of creatively side stepping what limits us, to exploiting what we are forced to use in new ways, to sneak innovations in the back window that don't rock the house.

You are invited to join the Secret Revolution, a movement of experimentation in new technologies, one of sharing what we do, connecting to others, all operating just below the radar. Collectively, we can generate more change in our educational system than any glossy white paper. And... it's really not much of a secret!

Keynote for the 2010 Canadian eLearning Conference hosted at the University of Alberta

Alan Levine

June 23, 2010
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  1. Alan Levine
    Canadian eLearning Conference 2010

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  3. How?

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  5. Nothing is wrong

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  6. Don’t Blame D’Arcy

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  7. Your Inner Geek

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  8. You are on stage

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  9. cc licensed flickr photo by bookgrl

    http://flickr.com/photos/bookgrl/1290565748/

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  10. A Quiet One?

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  11. http://secretrevolution.us/links

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  12. Change, Please?

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  13. cc licensed flickr photo by Eisenvater

    http://flickr.com/photos/sabineschmidt/2507284/

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  15. Burn, baby, burn

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  17. cc licensed flickr photo by lrargerich

    http://flickr.com/photos/lrargerich/3371192248/

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  18. Sell out

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  19. cc licensed flickr photo by Matthew Field

    http://flickr.com/photos/matthewfield/2306001896/
    Thousands of Stories

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  20. cc licensed flickr photo by Quinn
    Ryan Mattingly

    http://flickr.com/photos/terminalnomadphotograhy/2851260192/
    Working from the
    Inside Out...

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  21. Game Software Evaluation 1995

    http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/proj/sw/games/

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  22. Successful?

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  24. Evil.

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  25. http://bit.ly/cindy-ppt

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  27. ahem

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  28. http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2008/03/when-slides-go.html
    http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/tutorials/
    powerpoint/games/
    http://www.amazon.com/David-Byrne-
    Envisioning-Epistemological-Information/dp/
    3882439076

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  29. pekka what?

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  30. http://www.pecha-kucha.org/

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  31. http://www.oit.umn.edu/programs/20-by-20/

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  33. sucks

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  34. http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/000031.html
    “Do not be surprised to see the Blackboards and
    WebCTs out there beginning to add RSS tools to their
    systems. Consider what would happen if these course
    management systems could syndicate synopses of all
    course offerings or just the assignments I might be
    enrolled in. The same RSS aggregator I might use to
    stay in tune with news could also feed me a summary
    of my pending projects or assignments.”
    mcli forum, fall 2003 http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/forum/fall03/rss.html

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  35. http://feed2js.org/

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  36. They Stole OUr Learning Environment - Now We're Stealing It Back

    http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/blogarchive/007429.html

    “Moodle VLE is generally locked down, the wiki
    scrapes every flavour of embed, script and embed are
    not allowed in resource pages... but - if all you put in
    an HTML resource page is a single iframe, it seems to
    get through...
    So I can actually embed whatever I want in an inframe
    container within the VLE...”
    The Amazing Tony Hirst, Open University, http://ouseful.info

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  37. not a programmer

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  38. http://doteduguru.com/id5292-mobile-pittstate-how-we-did-it-with-no-money-or-resources.html
    “I’m a one man army, like many of you. This project
    wasn’t the result of the effort of a team of a dozen
    people over 6 months. It was me, a couple weeks, and a
    lot of lost sleep. To do this, I committed to the idea that it
    would be a pet project...
    Part of me feels that you have to be willing to take those
    risks though when you’re in web development. Playing it
    safe means you’ll only ever be average.”
    Michael Fienen, Pittsburg State University

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  39. http://www.mojopac.com/

    http://www.slideshare.net/Aliandrews/second-life-in-your-pocket-presentation
    “Although the organisation I work for supported and
    paid me to develop a project using Second Life, we
    weren't able to install the software on our organisation's
    computers (not approved - it takes 10 months for
    software to be approved!) so we used USB sticks and
    software called 'mojopac' to circumvent the system and
    we were able to do demos to teachers without the
    organisation ever knowing”

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  40. clever

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  41. cc licensed flickr photo by GeekMom
    Heather

    http://flickr.com/photos/heatherweaver/3171294458/
    Stepping Outside

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  42. by John Rodgers

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg0trSjx4AM

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  43. http://pairadimes.davidtruss.com/beg-for-foregiveness/
    “I had students in Grade 10 Personal Planning do some
    of their work on a private ning network. For mid term &
    final report cards students did a self evaluation with a
    self prescribed mark that we discussed one-on-one
    while looking at their work and comparing what they
    did with what I thought was exemplary work...
    Didn't ask permission from the school or parents to
    add these students to Ning... that's why I just kept it
    private.”
    David Truss

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  44. risky business

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  45. http://yammer.com/
    “I used Yammer and created an account for our district.
    Didn't ask or think to. I slowly began inviting people who
    I thought might find it useful. After I had about 10 folks
    using it, I told everyone to start inviting others. We now
    have about 70 people using it (total teaching staff of
    about 500), that includes board members and
    superintendents. ”
    Dean Shareski, Prairie South School Division

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  46. what if?

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  47. Jon Beasley Murray

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Murder_Madness_and_Mayhem

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  48. http://blog.ouseful.info/2010/03/10/ou-facebook-apps-reprise/
    “The apps were largely developed out of time and in
    stolen time, and it seems that things are likely to
    continue in this way (which is both a plus – freeing us
    from constraints of interminable committees wanting to
    plan strategies rather than jfdi, and a minus – @liamgh
    is the only person we trust with the code which means
    any maintenance falls to him ;-)”
    Tony Hirst, Open University

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  49. University of Mary Washington Blogs http://umwblogs.org

    Jim Groom, http://bavatuesdays.com/20-examples-from-umw-blogs-part-1/

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  50. expertise

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  51. Looking for Whitman http://lookingforwhitman.org/
    “Utilizing open-source tools to connect classrooms in
    multiple institutions, the project has created a
    collaborative online space in which students will be able
    to research Whitman’s connections to their individual
    locations and share that research with one another in a
    dynamic, social, web-based learning environment.”

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  52. Want to Join? secretrevolution = us

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  53. flickr photo by Linus Gelber

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/linus/168956768/

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  54. party, party

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  55. cc licensed flickr photos by

    Ryan Wolf and ryancr

    http://flickr.com/photos/re_wolf/3615800599/

    http://flickr.com/photos/ryanr/142455033/

    Must be open and shared...

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  56. Share anything revolutionary by
    tagging in delicious as
    secretrevolution
    http://delicious.com/tag/
    secretrevolution
    Tag the
    Revolution
    flickr photo by Laurie | Liquid Paper

    http://flickr.com/photos/96221617@N00/121545675/

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  57. And also tag specific examples
    with the “secret” tag s3cr3trev
    http://delicious.com/tag/
    s3cr3trev
    Tag the
    Revolutionaries
    flickr photo by Laurie | Liquid Paper

    http://flickr.com/photos/96221617@N00/121545675/

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  58. cc licensed flickr photo by doug88888

    http://flickr.com/people/doug88888/
    cc licensed flickr photo by David M*

    http://flickr.com/photos/d_a_v_i_d_m_/102953776/

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  59. the point

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  60. cc licensed flickr photo by Markybon

    http://flickr.com/photos/markybon/13298546/

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  61. cc licensed flickr photo by Howard▼Gees

    http://flickr.com/photos/cyberslayer/2482919523/

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  62. cc licensed flickr photo by bufivla

    http://flickr.com/photos/bufivla/2559402015/

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  63. cc licensed flickr photo by Karen Eliot

    http://flickr.com/photos/kareneliot/4565196571/

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  64. cc licensed flickr photo by Xosé Castro

    http://flickr.com/photos/cibergaita/62711050/

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  65. cc licensed flickr photo by SiamEye

    http://flickr.com/photos/puppydogbites/2445384572/

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  66. cc licensed flickr photo by SiamEye

    http://flickr.com/photos/puppydogbites/2445405768/

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  67. http://secretrevolution.us/

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  68. me too

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