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Author Archives: Jane Park

A Georgetown University Course Project

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Last month, a graduate student at Georgetown University in the Communication, Culture, and Technology program interviewed me via email about new media and my career path, especially pertaining to my role at Creative Commons. It was mainly for his course, so it wasn’t posted anywhere, but then I remembered this blog after I fed it [...]

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Can Creative Commons effect social change in education?

Monday, January 11, 2010

I joined CC two years ago this January, and since then my views about CC’s role in culture and education have evolved. Back then, I was pretty much a novice to this space, though sharing in education sounded like a no brainer to me. But I’ve had time to grow with my program (CC Learn), [...]

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Peer 2 Peer in action in Berlin

Friday, November 20, 2009

Photo by John Britton CC BY-SA
A Peer 2 Peer University co-founder recently posed this question to our tight knit community of volunteers: “Where are we in terms of P2PU’s evolution (one guy with his shirt off, or three people falling over themselves?)” Of course, this question was in reference to this infamous YouTube video of [...]

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Beyond the Textbook: The Illusion of Quality in K-12 Education

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Current textbook initiatives give the impression that educational quality will suffer without textbooks. In response to economic crises, these initiatives focus on saving the textbook, by either reducing its cost or digitizing many of its components. However, this public perception, that educational quality will suffer without textbooks, begs the question.

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Presenting at the WhippleHill User Conference 2009

Thursday, July 2, 2009

I like Boston; it’s unassuming. The city doesn’t pretend to be anything but what it is, namely, a smallish town with high rises in some directions and green, trimmed shrubbery in others. Granted, I have not seen much of the city; having wandered to the Commons after my talk, I managed to surprise only Paul [...]

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Blogging through the Open Video Conference

Sunday, June 28, 2009

What I originally thought would be the highlight of the Open Video Conference did not come to pass. Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody (The Power of Organizing Without Organizations) canceled last minute due to flight delays, sending conference organizers scrambling in the wee hours to find a suitable replacement.

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