Branding

Added by Nate Angell, last edited by Nate Angell on Jun 19, 2008  (view change) show comment

OpenEd Practices

After community input, discussion, thought and domain name research, we have reached the conclusion that the best candidate for a new independent name for our site is:

OpenEd Practices
openedpractices.org

Which, conveys our mission to "open" dialog and best practices for teaching and learning using open/community source tools and adopts the independent flavor demonstrated by the Fluid Project (http://fluidproject.org/). It also seems to distill some of the best ideas from our thinking (below and elsewhere) into something that stands out a bit, but is pronounceable, meaningful, and most of all, available

We envision a site titled "OpenEd Practices" that also presents a tagline/short mission statement making the full purpose of the site clear. Maybe something like:

"OpenEd Practices: A community of practice for teaching and learning with open/community-source tools."

Or longer, something like:

"OpenEd Practices brings together discussion, best practices and tools for teaching and learning with open and community-source technology."

Unless anyone has strong dislike for this name, the machinery will be put in place to start migrating the OSP community library to this new site. The OSP site will remain at http://osportfolio.org and will subscribe to portfolio-specific content from OpenEd Practices.

This will also allow us to advertise the Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award from the new site.

We will keep discussion open till the end of the OSP call 11am-12pm EDT, Monday, 3/17/2008 to make sure everyone gets a chance to weigh in on this decision. We can also discuss it during the T&L call 1-2PM EDT, Friday, 3/14/2008.

Thanks everybody for your contributions and on- and off-line discussions. Special kudos to Wende Morgaine who coined the term "OpenEd" and will always be an important "hinge" for such openings

Branding Key Concepts

Discuss possible global name/branding/domain alternatives for the combined T&L repository/community library.

Most suggestions to date have revolved around the idea of:

  • teaching and learning

combined with the idea of:

  • collection
  • library
  • repository

but there is also the idea of:

  • community (of practice)
  • collaboration
  • sharing
  • conversation
  • open source

Brainstorming

Drop everything you think here. Come on, don't be shy. There are no stupid ideas. One thing leads to another.

  • The Practice Depot
  • The Open Classroom
  • Spotlight on Teaching (or more simply the SPOT) - [Josh Comment: I like the general approach but I'm feel that "Spotlight" is too common]
  • The Teaching Practices Digital Collection
  • Teaching and Learning Gathering
  • TechWise Learning
Ideas Rationale Comments
EduSource
Education Source
Teaching Source
TeachSource
Trying to get at the theme of this being a source for teachers. We could then call it "The Source" EduSource is used by a Canadian group who is working with learning object repositories.  Might be confusing to use it.
EduFountain
TeachingFountain 		Brainstorm around the idea of creating a fountain of educational content, ideas, materials, etc. that anyone can come and "drink" from....we could call it "The Fountain"  
iTeach
iLearn
InnovativeTeaching
iTeach - iLearn 		iTeach could stand for "innovative teaching" but it is a nice play on words in terms of the statement "I Teach".  At Marist our Sakai instance is locally branded as "iLearn (innovative learning environment and research network) and it has been well received. iLearn would probably not work well given that we use it at Marist but I am open to considering it.
TheSage None...just a wild idea...playing around.  
BEFE By Educators, For Educators  
TAPP Teachers Against Poor Pedagogy  
The InFocus Teaching Practices Project Comes back to the Spotlight idea, with a less cheesy name.
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Comments (6)

 

  1. Mar 07, 2008

    Robin Hill says:

    The Pedagogy Post (I still like the formal word "pedagogy"...) But the suggesti...

    The Pedagogy Post (I still like the formal word "pedagogy"...)

    But the suggestions above are better.

    The Pedagogy Pile
    Ha, ha! Well, you asked for it.

  2. Mar 11, 2008

    Kathy Moore says:

    I like "The Practice Post" because it doesn't sound like halfadozen other educat...

    I like "The Practice Post" because it doesn't sound like half-a-dozen other educational technology sites I've heard of before. It's a challenge to come up with something that isn't so generic as to fade into all those others.

  3. Mar 12, 2008

    Kate Ellis says:

    It might be good to work the work "project" (or something like that) into the ti...

    It might be good to work the work "project" (or something like that) into the title to indicate that it's an ongoing effort.

  4. Mar 12, 2008

    Kate Ellis says:

    My colleague Ellis suggests "Teaching Practices Repository." Repository is a go...

    My colleague Ellis suggests
    "Teaching Practices Repository."
    Repository is a good word--meaning "storehouse" or "container."

    Or how about:
    "Instructional Practices Collection."

  5. Mar 13, 2008

    Mathieu Plourde says:

    Love it\! It's like... wow\! Bon travail, groupe\! Mathieu

    Love it! It's like... wow! Bon travail, groupe! Mathieu

  6. Mar 14, 2008

    Kate Ellis says:

    OpenEd Practicesgreat name!!

    OpenEd Practices--great name!!