Ein medienpädagogischer Workshop mit dem KI-Bildgenerator Midjourney — Vor ein paar Wochen habe ich in den schönen kleinen Ort Wilthen in der Lausitz begeben, um im Jugendhaus Wilthen, welches zum Valtenbergwichtel e.V. gehört, einen Tag lang über KI und vorallem über die Funktion von KI-Bildgeneratoren zu sprechen. TL;DR Ich habe eine Workshop mit Midjourney gemacht und wir haben unsere…

Tread lightly and bring people with you. — As we’ve explained in a previous post, we’ve been helping build a community around Open Recognition and Open Badges. This community was originally called ‘Keep Badges Weird’ but, more recently, we’ve settled on a more inclusive name: ‘Open Recognition is for Everybody’. Communities evolve and sometimes they need to be…

Fostering Transparency and Building a Cooperative Economy — Two weeks ago We Are Open Coop went to Amsterdam to join the MozFest House at Tolhuistuin in Amsterdam. For us this was not only another lovely opportunity to meet up but also to join the festival for some great sessions, conversations and free coffee that was actually not free. …

A collection of resources to help Sport England (and YOU!) work more openly. — Over the past six months, We Are Open (WAO) has run three workshops and many “office hours” with the 22 National Governing Bodies (NGBs) taking part in the Innovation and Digital Accelerator programme — developed by CAST as part of Sport England’s B2022 fund. Our goal was to help the…

How can we make valuable experiences visible with Open Badges? — Doug Belshaw and I made a little talk for the Open Education Talks at the University of Calgary. It is also Open Education Week currently which means it is the perfect timing to talk some more about Open Recognition in education. As…

It is Thanksgiving week for all the people who celebrate it. We Are Open folks live in the UK and Europe though, so we’re just going to use this time to say thank you! Thank you for this awesome first year of Keep Badges Weird! Thank you for all the…

With Feminist Weeknotes I want to share a collection of things that cross my path that are either very feminist, not feminist at all or something in between. I do this to help me identify and reflect on the things that happen to and around me in everyday life. Maybe…

We Are Open Co-op is proud to present another free email-based course to help you become introduced to the philosophy of feminist pedagogy. We made this course for leaders and educators who want to integrate more feminist practice into their learning environments. “Come closer. See how feminism can touch and…

With feminist weeknotes I want to share a collection of things that cross my path that are either very feminist, not feminist at all or something in between. This is to help me identify and reflect on the things that happen to and around me in everyday life. …