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Open Equal Free Chief Going to Laos on a Fulbright!

We couldn’t be prouder of our Nerd-in-Chief Michael Jones.  He’s been awarded a Fulbright research grant to study education in rural Laos. He’s spent a lot of his career in schools in Thailand and Cambodia, s...
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Open Equal Free Rocks TEDx University of Florida

Our Nerd-in-Chief Michael Jones took the stage at TEDx University of Florida to spread his ideas about open, equal, and free resources for people in every corner of the world. Click the video to hear his talk.   Last year,...
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Teachbuzz: Lessons for Anywhere!

It’s a very exciting day for us. Teachbuzz, our resource site designed to provide teachers all over the world (even the poorest places on earth) with fantastic free lesson plans, is ready for the public! We’ve been ...
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NERD ALERT! Alligators Are Talking About Us

We got word this week that we’re the talk of the swamp in Florida.  Our Chief Nerd, Michael Jones, was featured on the front page of the University of Florida’s Alligator newspaper following his stint at TEDxUF. Mi...
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We’re Taking the Stage at TEDx University of Florida!

Get ready to nerd out Open Equal Free style later this week.  Our Nerd-in-Chief, Michael Jones will be talking about the magic of open content at TEDx University of Florida on February 11.  Nearly 2,000 people will pack the s...
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We Love Creative Commons and So Does This Infographic

We’re all about Creative Commons licenses and sharing great ideas, art, literature, lesson plans…everything!  We think Creative Commons and free media provide an amazing path to helping us improve education around ...
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Open Equal Free + ComputerMinds = Teachbuzz

Last month we began production on Teachbuzz.com, a soon to be amazing resource site for educators the world over. To get the job done, we’ve started a partnership with UK based web development team ComputerMinds. They adv...
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The Smartest Appeal You’ll Hear This Season

Nothing improves the world like education. Open Equal Free improves education in the developing world. By providing resources, training, consultancies, news, and opportunities for communication, we make educators more effective...
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Philosophy 101: Teachers Rock, It’s Time to Act Like It

Philosophy 101 posts give our readers insight into Open Equal Free’s educational philosophy. We’re here to help every level of every education system, especially those in the poorest places on earth. However, the va...
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A Story in Many (Creative Commons) Pictures

Think there aren’t great free photos? Think again! Here’s proof that there are fantastic, free photos available plus a guide on how to find them: A Story in Many (Creative Commons) Pictures View more presentations f...
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Open Equal Free Nerds Out at TEDx Phnom Penh

There’s nothing we love more than sharing ideas to make education better around the world.  So, we jumped at the chance to talk about the future of education with people in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Open Equal Free’s E...
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Partnership! Sala Riin Kampuchea

This week I had the opportunity to observe, evaluate, and design trainings for Sala Riin Kampuchea.  They run two educational centers that provide English and Computer classes–as well as access to libraries–to stud...
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We Want to Make You a Hero

Click through the slides to see how.  
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Bartering for Good: The Harpswell Foundation

Bartering for Good is a series following our work with The Pari Project and the NGOs they help. Because young women in developing countries face barriers to learning, The Harpswell Foundation is dedicated to providing young ...
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Bartering for Good: Tiny Toones (Part Two)

Bartering for Good is a series following our work with The Pari Project and the NGOs they help. This is part two of my trip to Tiny Toones, an arts education organization that teaches urban youth about hip hop and break dancin...
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Bartering for Good: Tiny Toones (Part One)

Bartering for Good is a series following our work with The Pari Project and the NGOs they help. The first organization we visited as part of our consultancy exchange with Pari is Tiny Toones (Warning: Site with Music). Tiny To...
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Bartering for Good

This week I’ve been working with The Pari Project to help evaluate the education NGOs they work with. Pari is a great partner for us, not only because they do good things for good people, but because they’ve got e...
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To Charge or not to charge…

Through the combined effort of a half dozen trusted colleagues and the unanimous input from our board of directors, we’ve decided to start charging for consultancy and trainings in 2012. There is a lot of dialogue going o...
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Getting peppy with PEPY

Just had an amazing 2 days at the PEPY staff retreat. I’d been working there before starting up this project and they invited me to come along. What a great experience! The retreat was held in Battambang, Cambodia, which ...
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2 weeks in,

and the water’s fine! Every day I feel less and less like an office monkey and more like someone making difference. I think by the end of the month the administrivia will be relatively smoothed out and I’ll get to f...
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Learning Word Press

A big part of what we support at Open Equal Free is life long learning. So, although we’ve hired professionals to handle the heavy lifting over at Teachbuzz, it seemed like a basic informational website was within my reac...
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Under Construction!

What you see is a work in progress. We plan to have a site without apologies by August 19th. Thank you for your patience! Questions? Contact our founder at mjones@openequalfree.org    
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