True Stories of Photos

The Amazing Unknown Flower (Alan Levine)

• Photos of Flowers Tagged Unknown (people will find and comment)
• "I suspect it is a ranunculus" (comment on orangeflower)
• Most Incredible Example of Serendipity (the story at CogDogRoo)

Where Did You Find That Lovely Smoked Alligator? (Mikhail Gershovich)

• This Evil Empire (Mikhail's blog)
• I Can Has Whole Smoked Alligator? (the story)
• Fine Dining with Jonah, Vol. 2 (original appearance of the gator photo)

A Passing Photo On My Way to the Dentist Ends up in Local Magazine (D'Arcy Norman)

• D'Arcy Norman dot net (D'Arcy's web site)
• one way (the photo)
• D'Arcy Tells the Story (YouTube response)

My Flickr Photos End up in Russian AND French Museums? Cool (Tom Woodward)

• old textures (flickr photo)
• Hermitage Magazine (Russian Museum)
• Parrot Photo (flickr photo)
• Ara chloroptera-upper body-4.jpg (same photo in Wikimedia Commons)
• Grande Galerie de l'Evolution (French Natural History Museum

True Stories of Jobs & Careers

But For a Shared Philosophy Paper There'd be no OLDaily (Stephen Downes)

• Stephen's Web (Stephen's web site)
• Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies (the posted paper)

Open Blogging Changes Life Direction (student of Barbara Ganley)

• The Modern Story (digital storytelling non-profit set up by student)
• The Modern Story Videos (vimeo site)
• Piya Kashyap's Portfolio (profile of student at Abroad View)

Open Blogging Got Me a Teaching Offer (Laura Blankenship)

• Geeky Mom (Laura's blog)
• Gender and Technology Spring 2009 (Bryn Mawr class site that generated the offer)

Huh? You Will Pay Me to Blog? (Clay Burell)

• Beyond School (Clay's blog)
• Election 2008 (Clay's election blog)
• Education Change.org (where Clay is paid to write)

Open Sharing Made Me Quit My Job? (Barbara Ganley)

• (the new) bgblogging (Barbara;s blog)
• Since Leaving School (reflection on leaving academia)
• Digital Explorations (new non profit for community story telling)

True Stories of Diagrams

The Networked Teacher Diagram Spreads Around the World (Alec Couros)

• Open Thinking (Alec's web site)
• Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and Implications for Education (Dissertation published under creative commons in Scribd, 27,000+views)
• Networked Teacher Diagram (on flickr). Translations include:
  • Portguese (by Veja Magazine)
  • Greek (by Stylianos Mystakidis)
  • Spanish (by Silvia Tolisano)
  • German (by Silvia Tolisano)
• The Networked Student (video by Wendy Drexler inspired by diagram)

Matrix of Blog Uses in Education Comes Alive Through Open Sharing (Scott Leslie)

• EdTechPost (Scott's Blog)
• The Matrix (the diagram, not the movie, silly)
• Matrix of some uses of blogs in education (2003 blog post)
• ‘Blog Uses in Education’ Drag and Drop Exercise (2006 blog post)
• Drag and Drop version of diagram (flash app by webducate)
• Webducate Dragster (and the value in open sharing) (2008 blog post)
• Dragster (Webducate site)
• Dragster version of Matriz as wiki (Webducate)

True Stories of Travel

From HTML to Iceland (Alan Levine)

• Writing HTML (tutorial created in 1994)
• Námsefnisgerð í HTML (translation into Icelandic by Guðjón Ólafsson)
• From .az to .is (1999 visit to Iceland)

Sharing Online Landed me in Azerbaijan (Nancy White)

• Full Circle Associates (Nancy's web site)
• Changing Lenses: Thinking About Two Weeks in the Caucasus (the story)

Blogging Gets Me Invited... (Darren Kuropatwa)

• A Difference (Darren's blog)
• Ellie's 7th Grade Math Blog (tutoring niece via blog)
• Importance of Education (story of experience getting asked to be part of Alan November keynote)
• K12 Online Conference (annual free online conference)

True Stories of Helping Others

Paying it Forward (Sue Waters)

• Mobile Technology in TAFE (Sue's Podcast blog through 2007)
• The EduBlogger (Sue's current blog)
• EduBlogs
• Invitation Student Blogging Competition (Sue's blog post_
• 31 Day Comment Challenge (2008 challenge wiki)
• Technology in out classroom (Sue Wyatt blog)
• Sue Wyatt Class Blog Challenge (2009)

Light at the End of the Bullying Tunnel (Clay Burell)

• Beyond School (Clay's blog)
• Of Jocks and Fags (the story)
• My Suicidal High School Years: A Happy-Ending Bullying Story (podcast version of the story)
• Google on 'bullying memoir' (Clay's post is first)
• On the Meaningful, and Quantum Contexts (more reflection)

Helping in Massive Open Course (George Siemens)

• elearnspace (George's blog)
• Connectivism & Connective Knowledge (massive open online course)
• Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Online Course Wiki
• Translations
  • Chinese
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

True Stories of Open Organizations

Penn State University Embraces Openness in a Big Way (Cole Camplese)

• Learning and Innovation - My Place to Write, Share and Remember (Cole's blog)
• The Blogs at Penn State (open blogs for all students and staff at 24 campuses)
• Digital Commons (support and resources for students creating video content)
• Cole's Story on YouTube

Create Separately or Together? (Nancy White)

• Full Circle Associates (Nancy's web site)
• Knowledge Management for Development (KM4DEV) (ning community)
• Knowledge Sharing Toolkit (wiki constructed)

True Stories of Publishing

Publishing the Lectures I Could Never Lecture (Clay Burell)

• Beyond School (Clay's blog)
• English Lecture 1: Gilmagesh (first Unsucky Lecture, 147 comments; 8 more lectures in the series)
• Unsucky English, Lecture 1: On Gilgamesh (42 reviews on StumbleUpon)

Open Access Published Text Book (Terry Anderson)

• Terry Anderson Blog
• Theory and Practice of Online Learning (open access publication, first edition 2004)
• Theory and Practice of Online Learning (second edition 2008)

From Comment on Blog Post to Quote in Online Newspaper (Tony Hirst)

• OUseful.Info (Tony's blog)
• Information and how to make it useful (Cabinet Office Digital Engagement Blog where Tony's comment appeared)
Plug’n'Play Public Data (Tony's post about using public data June 1, 2009)
• UK set to follow successful US data method (The Guardian, June 4, 2009; scroll to bottom for quote)

German Band Publishes CD With My Cover Art (Alan Levine)

• Cover Art (story at CogDogBlog)
• Random Walks in the Southwest (old web page with link to photo)
• sea-level.jpg (photo the band found)
• The Sea Level Has Arrived! (arrival of the disc blog post at CogDogBlog)
• The Sealevel (band web site). Listen to the band!
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• Buy the album at Amazon (I don't get royalties!)

Successful Open Academic Journal (Terry Anderson)

• Terry Anderson Blog
• The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (10th year in 2009)
• Open Access Policy
• Open Journal Systems (open source journal management and publishing system used by IRRODL)
• Journals for Computer-Mediated Learning: Publications of Value for the Online Educator (IRRODL June 2009 review of online journals)

True Stories of Connections

After Connecting via Blogs My Students Said We Have to Meet These People (Barbara Ganley)

• Irish Film Project (remnants of Radio blog found at Internet Archive)

Sharing What I Do and the Connections it Brings (Leigh Blackall)

• Leigh Blackall (blog)
• Learn Online (first blog 2004)
• Knowledge Sharing Toolkit (wiki constructed)
• Open Educational Resources at Otago Polytechnic

Met an Author on Twitter (Jennifer Jones)

• jentropy (Jennifer's writing blog)
• #litchat (twitter based writers dicsussion group)
• Jeremy Duns (author of Free AgentFree Agent, by Jeremy Duns (Jennifer's review)
• Twitter Discussion with Author (screen capture)

Student Blogger Connects with Family Member of Artist (Enza Antenos-Conforti)

• Enza Antenos-Conforti (faculty page at Montclair State University)
• Gli Stati Uniti - Roger Morigi (student blog post on Roger Morigi)
• comment from grand niece of Morigi

From Blog to Second Life to Colleague (Robin Heyden)

• Stepping Stones (Robin's blog)
• Gardner Writes (Gardner Campbell's blog)
• Rock the Academy: Radical Teaching, Unbounded Learning (2008 NMC Online Conference in Second Life
• Rock the Academy with the History of Ideas: The BBC, New Media and Deep Learning (Gardner Campbell's presentation in Second Life- video also available)
• Biology Leadership Conference VI (2008 conference where Gardner keynoted)
• An addition part of the story (shared by Robin after her video was done)

The Keynoter Used Our Open Site as an Example! (Rick Schwier)

• Rick's Café Canadien (Rick's blog)
• Ed Tech Posse (Podcast site from Rick and colleagues)
• More on this story (shared by Rick after his video was done)

Their Sharing Infected Me (Dean Shareski)

• Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech (Dean's blog)
• Everybody’s Got a Story (Blog post on storytelling workshop)
• What's Your (digital) Story? (workshop wiki)

Sharing is What We Do (Mike Bogle)

• TechTicker (Mike's blog)
• Mike's Video Response (blip.tv)