https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFpJ5TvIPr0 Transcript This video is to help you to fix bugs in your software. So we’ve been doing block coding with Blockly and it’s all great. It’s all good fun making a snowflake or trying different patterns until we get stuck and we don’t know how to move forward and it’s not doing we want…
I gave a presentation on how FLOSS Manuals uses Booktype and ePubs at a discussion panel at the Cetis 2014 conference. Here is Wilbert’s write up of the panel. When does a book become a web platform. This links to a lot of the work Adam Hyde has done around advocating for the use of…
A gallery of photos from FLOSS Manuals mostly taken at Book Sprints organised by Adam Hyde and Elisa Godoy de Castro Guerra. There is more information about Book Sprints And more information on FLOSS Manuals at the FLOSS Manuals Foundation site.
Images by Charlie Harvey A photo gallery of Barn Camp 2013 – BarnCamp is a low-cost rural DIY skillsharing event open to everyone, including UK activists, campaigners, people involved in social and community groups, and anybody else with an interest in technology and how to subvert it to put it to good use. All skill…
When you start to look at editing video and getting all the the different formats to work you are entering a world of pain. This was the helpful advice we started with when introducing video editing as part of the Artists do I.T. course. We wanted to come up with a good solution for teaching…
One of the aspects of doing the p2pu.org course on Designing Collabortive Workshops course was the ability to watch and take part in any of three presentations / seminars online. I really want to thank the members of FLOSS manuals and the V4C (video for change) networks for stepping up and helping out with these…
We are happy to announce new manuals in FLOSS Manuals that have also been translated into Farsi for the Internews Europe, Human Rights Connect project. The first is a summary of Firefox with a focus on security and offline use. The second a short guide to the collaborative writing tool Etherpad. We hope that these…
I wanted to write a quick post outlining the process of a ‘course sprint’ to share with some of the communities that I’m involved with including the P2PU, School of Open and the FLOSS Manuals community. I think this methodology can be of use to emerging groups of on-line educators creating open education resources (OERs)…
At the Video 4 Change gathering one of the things I was thinking about was trying to understand of how emerging networks could best use Book Type to manage their strategy & training resources. Book Type is the software we use for the FLOSS Manuals community. Skip to the end for some recommendations but I…
This post borrows heavily (mostly verbatim) from the posts of Cheekay & Becky – apart from the sections on sharing and tools at the end. I was representing FLOSS Manuals at the retreat. I’ve taken my thoughts about how FM can interact with communities of educators and put them into a separate Blog post here.…