Tune in to Jim Groom and special guest Kathleen Fitzpatrick talking about her web origin story in our ongoing Bloggers Anonymous series.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick is currently Interim Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University. She has been at MSU since August 2017, and up until July 2024 served as Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English. During that same time period, she was founding director of Mesh Research, a lab dedicated to developing open-source, interoperable, academy-owned tools for the future of scholarly communication. Key among Mesh’s projects is Knowledge Commons, an open-access network serving more than 40,000 scholars and practitioners across – and beyond – the disciplines and around the world.

Join Kin Lane and Jim Groom on Reclaim TV as they take a deep dive into writing, AI and APIs.

Kin Lane is a writer, storyteller, and forever recovering technologist. If you’ve heard of his name before, you probably know Kin as the API Evangelist, covering the technology, business, people, and policies of APIs. Kin lives in New York City with his wife Audrey, and Rottweiler Poppy, while continuing to make technology more transparent and visible via his stories, artifacts, and tooling published on API Evangelist.

For this session we’ll be joined by Tom Woodward (Director of Learning Spaces and Technologies) and Amy Collier (Associate Provost for Digital Learning) of Middlebury College to discuss their online series “Demystifing AI: Big Promises, Big Questions“.

One question we’ll explore is how our conception of writing will be impacted in the age of AI. Can one’s writing be discovered amongst all the noise? What’s more, can and will AI have a blog soul? Tune in, turn on, and find out this and more.

Join Mike Caulfield and Jim Groom on Reclaim TV as they talk about online writing as both laboratory for experimentation as well as an intervention.

Mike Caulfield is a research scientist at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, where he studies the spread of online rumours and misinformation. Creator of the SIFT methodology, he has taught thousands of teachers and students how to verify claims and sources through his workshops. We’ll be talking to Mike about his humble beginnings as a political cum edtech blogger. In particular, we will dig into how he approaches his online writing as both laboratory for experimentation as well as an intervention into the discourse around the limits and possibilities of social media.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming every facet of education, both for learners, educators, and leaders alike. In this time of great change, how can we equip our learners (and ourselves) with the skills necessary to navigate and influence the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence?

Join Dr. Angela Gunder of Opened Culture and Dr. Doug Belshaw of We Are Open in this free, interactive workshop as they unveil the multifaceted and transformative world of “AI Literacies.” Recognizing that literacy is not merely an on/off switch of literacy vs. illiteracy, but a spectrum of interconnected and evolving skills, this online session will introduce educators of all levels and contexts to eight different dimensions of competencies, skills, and mindsets that comprise AI literacies.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming education, bringing both opportunities and challenges for open educators. This interactive workshop, hosted by Dr. Doug Belshaw and Dr. Angela Gunder, explores a plurality of “AI Literacies” for understanding and applying AI within open education.

Join special guests Autumm Caines and Dr. Lance Eaton as we dive into their fascinating work for College Unbound, a course on Technology & Society: Generative AI, using OpenWebUI in the classroom.

This stream will feature a discussion with Audrey Watters about her career as a writer on and off the web.

The Knowledge Commons is the network for knowledge creators across the disciplines. You can use it to discover the latest open-access scholarship and teaching materials, make interdisciplinary connections, build a WordPress website, and increase the impact of your work by sharing it in the repository. Check them out at https://hcommons.org and find them on Mastodon @[email protected].

In this episode we are joined by special guest Larissa Babak (@[email protected]) from Michigan State University, learning about the network and taking a look behind the scenes of a change in repository platforms.