Sharing- Creative Commons- Collaboration- Amplification

In a post, titled It’s All About Sharing and Collaborating, I wrote about a Russian educator who had translated material from Langwitches into his language in order to SHARE the content with his colleagues who spoke no English.  Alec Couros, told the Amazing Story of Openness  and his diagram of the Networked Teacher as it has been translated into many languages now.

It am tremendously honored, when my work gets AMPLIFIED into other languages, reaching educators, I would not have reached otherwise. Dico Krommenhoek  contacted me a few days ago via Twitter. I was thrilled to give permission, without hesitation, when he asked to translate the iPad App Evaluation checklist into Dutch. It gives me a sense of COLLABORATION across time, space and language, when I can “teach” via my work and materials without ever speaking the same language or meeting these teachers face to face.

This is a beauty of CREATIVE COMMONS and an amazing story of openness (as Alec Couros puts it).

That is why my work gives me satisfaction…

You can download the pdf file of the checklist in Dutch here.