Hello FSFE folk
You may have already heard about this from twitter, thank you if you already voted.
This project will create an Open Education Resource where trainers will be able to pick from a range of openly licence resources and activities to create a curriculum. I'll build on the resources of FLOSS Manuals and similar projects but put a more friendly front end on it. I'm thinking this work could be useful to many Free Software trainers!
*Short story:* You can quickly help an Manchester project for refugee artists by voting here - http://elevator.jisc.ac.uk/sosi14/ideas/duct-tape-university
*Longer story: *
Duct Tape University project for Do IT artists
Do IT, is a training course run by Community Arts North West for artists to help them use low cost technology to spread the word about their work and learn digital production skills.
We think we have come up with a great formula to help artists, small business and people active in communities to pick up new skills in getting their message across with social media and media production. And here's a project to help spread the word -- Duct Tape University.
We need your help to make it happen! Please vote for it here. http://elevator.jisc.ac.uk/sosi14/ideas/duct-tape-university
The ideas is to put all of the resources, activities and tools in one place. All of these resources will have an open licence so that they can be used and adapted by other trainers.
Why Vote for the Project?
The project will create a simple to use, attractive website which will showcase the high quality training documents, lesson plans and learning activities. CAN training participants will be able to download these materials for free. It will be a great resource for CAN artists to use when planning their own workshops in the area of digital art and using the web for communication. We will use all of our skills and experience to make the website as easy to use as possible to find the resources you need.
How you can help
Please vote for it here. http://elevator.jisc.ac.uk/sosi14/ideas/duct-tape-university
dtu_voite https://twitter.com/mickfuzz Please retweet -- Click on the Twitter bird https://twitter.com/mickfuzz to find some tweets to repeat.
Thanks for spreading the word. You could use the #artistsdoit or #oer hash tags too
Email some people about it. You can copy and paste this page into an email and send it on to some people that you think appreciate this project.
About Do IT
Here's some info about Artists Do IT programme. http://mcrblogs.co.uk/doit/2013/09/20/summary-artists-doit-course/
