Carolyn Fox

1906 points

Carolyn Fox is an educator, librarian, historian, and an un/homeschooling mother. She lives in Massachusetts with her UK husband and son.

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Authored Content

How to share the open source way with someone

I never thought how a simple photograph at a family birthday could capture the essence of an open education until my niece recently turned one year old. Most often, an open…

Open Course Library's best resource: introductory college course materials

Open Course Library has now released 81 high quality, free-to-use courses to the public. Users are can adapt and distribute content under a Creative Commons license and…

Open source, library schools, libraries, and digital dissemination

Review of the new Digital Public Library of America

The Digital Public Library of America ( DPLA) opened last month. (The official launch had been planned to occur at t he Boston Public Library but the temporary closing of the…

How can open soruce help solve a huge problem?

How do we solve and prevent cyber crimes?

In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, I cannot help wondering what it is the role open source and open education have in global or national security measures. The…

Speaking the language of an Open Source Officer

Here's a job title you may not have considered: Open Source Officer. The CIA hires Open Source Officers (OSOs) to collect and analyze publicly available information in foreign…

A guide to free and open source education

Nearly every week, if not every day, there are more and more open source and open educational resources available and accessible to us. It's impossible to ignore. It also…

Authored Comments

wivenhoe

7 Nov 2013

Free and open source education materials for children and teens

Many thanks for the kind words and the points. I wish schools wouldn't neglect IT or librarians. I also wish schools would invest with FLOSS and GNU/Linux but that involves change and many people are reluctant to embrace change. I think you're idea about Wikipedia is superb.

wivenhoe

4 Nov 2013

Four ways to better educate girls inside and outside the classroom

Thanks, this is inspiring. You try. I try. We try to do what we can. Please consider writing about what you do or how you are tackling the subject. I'd love to hear and many others would too. The more we share, the more we learn and grow.