{"id":889,"date":"2008-10-14T11:27:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T18:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/14\/the-value-of-openness-creating-the-horizon-report-out-in-the-open\/"},"modified":"2008-10-14T11:27:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T18:27:37","slug":"the-value-of-openness-horizon_report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/14\/the-value-of-openness-horizon_report\/","title":{"rendered":"The Value of Openness &#8211; Creating the Horizon Report, out in the open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizon.nmc.org\/wiki\/Research_Question_One\">http:\/\/horizon.nmc.org\/wiki\/Research_Question_One<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am fortunate once again to be participating on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmc.org\/horizon\/wdata\/xdocs\/2009_board.pdf\">Advisory Board<\/a> that is helping with the <a href=\"http:\/\/horizon.nmc.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">2009 NMC Horizon Report<\/a>. I say &#8220;fortunate,&#8221; because each year, I feel like I get far more than I give &#8211; the Advisory Board truly are a fount of all the latest and greatest developments being used (and influencing) education.<\/p>\n<p>And while I hope you do find the report useful when it comes out in late January 2009, you too can derive much the same benefit as I simply because the process to advise on the Report takes place &#8216;out in the open&#8217; on <a href=\"http:\/\/horizon.nmc.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">this wiki<\/a>. Indeed, I honestly find the <a href=\"http:\/\/horizon.nmc.org\/wiki\/Research_Question_One\">raw materials gathered in the Research Questions<\/a> (as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/tag\/hz09\">ongoing hz09 tag in delicious<\/a>) to be ultimately the most valueable part of the process; inevitably, in order to create a &#8216;unified&#8217; picture that can be summed up in a printed report certain details are lost, smushed together, improved upon, etc. But all of the raw materials are there for anyone who cares to dig. For instance, this morning I learned about<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/picker.mit.edu\/\">a &#8216;semantically driven&#8217; course picker from MIT<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/suggestan.com\/\">a quirky little service for suggestions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/moonri.se\/\">a twitter-like site for how you are feeling<\/a><\/li>\n<li>and a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikigenes.org\/\">wiki for life sciences where authorship matters<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>all in one morning! And because it&#8217;s out in the open, so can you. &#8211;\u00a0 <em>SWL<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/horizon.nmc.org\/wiki\/Research_Question_One I am fortunate once again to be participating on the Advisory Board that is helping with the 2009 NMC Horizon Report. I say &#8220;fortunate,&#8221; because each year, I feel like I get far more than I give &#8211; the Advisory Board truly are a fount of all the latest and greatest developments being used &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/14\/the-value-of-openness-horizon_report\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Value of Openness &#8211; Creating the Horizon Report, out in the open&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[173],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rest","tag-horizon-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}