This is just a gentle reminder to everyone interested in open access materials, and in some fashion in open access education, that there is now an easy way to search the expanding offerings: Open Courseware Search. As the site itself notes, the following offerings are searched:

1. School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins (institution:jhsph)
2. MIT (institution:mit)
3. Notre Dame (institution:nd)
4. The Open University UK (institution: openuniversity)
5. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (institution:politecnicamadrid), Spanish courses
6. Stanford Engineering Everywhere (institution:stanford)
7. Delft University of Technology (institution:tudelft), English and Dutch courses
8. UMass Boston (institution:umass)
9. The University of Tokyo (institution:utokyo), both English and Japanese OCW collections
10. Yale University (institution:yale)

My own university is, I think, moving to a more open model for its course content offerings. I see this as a real opportunity to make available content I have developed to a wider audience. I think the real value of a campus environment is not exclusivity of content but the potential for interaction.

The Apple Knowledge Base has a terrific, and easy to follow, article on how to output ePub files out of the iWork Pages application.

Open Folklore is up and running. Many thanks to Jason Jackson, Moira Smith, and Tim Lloyd for their vision and hard work. Jason Jackson has many more posts on his blog, including one entitled “What can Open Folklore help me do now?”.

When I get more of a chance to try it out, I will report my results.

This is amazing news if both want the web to succeed as a genuine communication platform and don’t want to sacrifice years of graphic design work in the print tradition.

I just spent an hour of my time creating a Google Docs spreadsheet of the NEH seminar participants so I could try my hand at some visualizations. I entered about 16 names and gave them the locations of the universities with which they are affiliated.

No luck.

But here are the help documents I consulted:

Google Earth’s Spreadsheet Mapper

Google Maps