Over at my OEGlobal perch I just scheduled a new recording session for the OE Global Voices podcast, this by request from the folks at Athabasca University that publish the open access journal, The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRODDL) as it is their 25th anniversary.
And it was exciting to see the guest for the session include Terry Anderson, still blogging as The Virtual Canuck. It’s been a looooooong time since I communicated with Terry, my Gmail history indicates last a comment notification on his 2015 post about retirement.
But I remember farther back that Terry was in the original set of my Amazing True Stories of Openness session at the 2009 Open Education Conference. I actually had not uploaded his video to YouTube to share on the most recent version of the site at https://stories.cogdogblog.com/. Of course I have all my source materials rummaging around on my laptop, so it was a quick thing to grab the 2 minute video to YouTubify Terry’s story of an open access textbook and then post to the site.
This will be nice. I sat down to send an email to Terry, since it had been decades, and on searching my gmail I found a reference to a reply from Scott Leslie with a joke about not knowing seeing Terry Anderson’s name that he could have added two stories (Yes you could have and still can, dude, the site is a SPLOT).
I went back to the original site, and just scrolled down the page a bit, and spotted Terry’s second story– and there he was in 2009 talking about volume 10 of IRRODL! Even more embarassing I noted my old site had linked to the wrong video file (it was a repeat of his first story), so I not only fixed the old site, but now included Terry’s 2009 IRRODL story on the main collection or watch here:
How serendipitous can one get? Terry in 2009 talking about IRRODL and in a fe wweeks I get to hear more stories of this journal still doing its open thing in 2025.
I call it… AMAZING.
Featured Image: Screenshot of both of Terry’s Amazing stories published in 2009 as part of Amazing Stories of Openness, and still on the web, how is that even possible? Cause it’s my own web site and I take care of my stuff. I went in my source code, and moved around a few blocks of HTML to lists the two stories together.
