Move over reading week, the GATA Network has a new favourite most wonderful time of the year: Open Education Week. Alicia Higgison from the Office of Open Learning describes Open Education Week, running March 10th – 15th, as such:

First of all, we’d like to extend the invite ALL WEEK (…and all the other days of all the other weeks…) to stop in and see us on the first floor of Erie Hall. Stop by Erie Hall 1110, which we affectionately call the COLlab (Collaborative Open Learning Laboratory), and see our fancy BrightLink Interactive whiteboard, it’s really something! Come see the cool gadgets we have, the ways we can make your classes (yes, even your on-campus classes!) work better for you, stop by and chat with us about any technology-related questions you may have. We’re always happy to help, and happy to learn from you as well. And I’m not saying there will definitely be treats involved, but I’m not saying there won’t be either…

It could be the mention of “treats”, it could be the very idea of open (read: free) resources…either way we’re pretty fired up about next week and the awesome workshops @UWinOpenLearn, and it led to a special edition of We Made It: It’s Friday…

• Next Tuesday the Office of Open Learning will be offering a crash course on the world of Open Educational Resources (OERs). But if you’re like us (read: keeners), you’ll want to know a thing or two about OERs so that you can impress fellow workshop goers with how pro you are at being a beginner. So here’s this collection of articles from opensource.com for beginners in OER.
• Gearing up for Alicia’s workshop on personal branding, we got thinking about brand power in general. Naturally, that got us thinking about logos, and that led us to guessthelogo.com. True, you won’t need a logo to build your personal brand, but file this under “research” anyway.
• Lastly, we bring you grammar. So you never took to grammar in school? Language and writing just aren’t your things? Or, in the spirit of open learning, maybe you just need to come at grammar from a new angle. Try the grassroots viral puppet celebrity angle: learn about grammar from Glove and Boots.

To find out more about Open Education Week and the workshops mentioned above, visit the Office of Open Learning’s blog: http://ctl2.uwindsor.ca/openlearning/

Happy Friday!