By CETIS Assistant Director Lorna Campbell. Original post is here: http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2012/08/31/oer-booksprint-reflections/ Earlier this week Amber Thomas, Phil Barker, Martin Hawksey and I had the interesting and rewarding experience of participating in an OER booksprint. A booksprint is essentially an accelerated facilitated ... read more
In October during a quick 3 day sprint combining material from two existing texts from FLOSS Manuals and adding a lot of new material the CryptoParty handbook was produced. Over 440 pages of information for those wanting to be safe ... read more
One of the things I am trying to achieve is some understanding of the dynamics of book production especially with regard to Book Sprints. The tool used for Book Sprints is Booktype, an online Book Production platform that I currently ... read more
The book of the sprint that finished on Saturday is now released! You can find it all here http://turtlesanddragons.booksprints.net/ Available now in 2 ebook formats (epub and mobi). The book looks great and has 32,000 words of wonderful exploration of ... read more
In the first week of November there will be a Book Sprint in the outskirts of Berlin about governmental oil contracts. The book is intended to assist governmental negotiators in securing better contracts for the benefits of the people & ... read more
The following is a short article on Book Sprints created for the Frankfurt Book Fair by Dr D M Berry ( Senior Lecturer in Digital Media at Swansea University) and Michael Dieter (lecturer in New Media at the University of Amsterdam). Book Sprinting ... read more
This morning we restructured the first section since one of the chapters was not complete until late last night and had not been reviewed. This introduced some structural issues that we are discussing. To do this we printed out the ... read more
Day 4. Up early and ready to go! After breakfast we continued work on the development of the Interactivity section, and some reviews of the first section. During this process I have been inspired by the conversations about notation systems. ... read more
After 2.2 days we finished the first two sections which define how we wish to talk about notation. Now its time to get to the point of the story which is ‘how to create and use notation of interactive systems’. ... read more
There are two groups of three working in parallel. One working on the big questions about notation. What is notation, what is it used for, what is not good for. The second team are focused on looking into the important elements ... read more
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