Keynote presentation for the eLearning Consortium of Colorado 2014 conference -- their 25th year of the conference; the firs took place a month after Tim Berners-Lee got approval for his World Wide Web project. A Victorian era book represented the best technology of its time to organize, via a crude hypertext system, a collection of world knowledge. In the hands of a young boy growing up in the 1960s, it inspired a spirit of magic, wonder, and the vision of an open portal to the world of information. As an adult, he invented the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee's original vision was of "the Web being so generally used that it became a realistic mirror of the ways in which we work and play and socialize. That was that once the state of our interactions was on line, we could then use computers to help us analyse it, make sense of what we are doing, where we individually fit in, and how we can better work together." As an open, connected space, the web remains a near infinite place we ought to revel that same wonder. Our educational careers begin in kindergarten, knowing intrinsically the value of sharing. Somewhere between there and graduate school, we lose track of this simple concept, be it worrying about theft of intellectual property or questioning the value of what we do. The open ecology of an Enquire Within Upon Everything web can undermine this limiting attitude and rekindle that sense of wonder. It's all about creating more potential serendipity. Let's celebrate the True Stories of what happens when educators share something openly on the web. Links and more at http://go.cogdog.it/elcc2014

1. Enquire Within Upon
Everything:
True Stories of the
Wondrous Web
go.cogdog.it/elcc2014
Alan Levine • cogdog.info

2. 1989

20. cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo by theirhistory: http://flickr.com/photos/22326055@N06/4332455554/

21. Like a house, every paragraph in "Enquire Within" has its
number,—and the Index is the Directory which will explain
what Facts, Hints, and Instructions inhabit that number.

25. Suggestion
of magic...
a portal
to the
world of
information

26. The
dream
behind
the Web
is of a
common
information
space in which
we communicate
by sharing
information

27. Its universality is essential: the fact that a
hypertext link can point to anything, be it
personal, local or global, be it draft or highly
polished.
The World Wide Web: A very short personal history by Tim Berners-Lee May 7, 1998 http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html

28. Its universality is essential: the fact that a
hypertext link can point to anything, be it
personal, local or global, be it draft or highly
polished.
The World Wide Web: A very short personal history by Tim Berners-Lee May 7, 1998 http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html
This proposal concerns the management of general
information about accelerators at CERN. It discusses the
problems of loss of information about complex
evolving systems and derives a solution based on a
distributed hypertext system.

30. Its universality is essential: the fact that a hypertext
link can point to anything, be it personal, local or
global, be it draft or highly polished.There was a
second part of the dream, too, dependent on the
Web being so generally used that it became a
realistic mirror (or in fact the primary
embodiment) of the ways in which we work
and play and socialize.
The World Wide Web: A very short personal history by Tim Berners-Lee May 7, 1998 http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html

31. Its universality is essential: the fact that a hypertext
link can point to anything, be it personal, local or
global, be it draft or highly polished.There was a
second part of the dream, too, dependent on the
Web being so generally used that it became a
realistic mirror (or in fact the primary
embodiment) of the ways in which we work and
play and socialize.That was that once the state of
our interactions was on line, we could then use
computers to help us analyse it, make sense of
what we are doing, where we individually
fit in, and how we can better work
together.
The World Wide Web: A very short personal history by Tim Berners-Lee May 7, 1998 http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html

33. Dexter’s Picture http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/19lzy5/this_is_my_son_dexter_he_picked_these_flowers/

34. Dexter’s Picture http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/19lzy5/this_is_my_son_dexter_he_picked_these_flowers/

35. Dexter’s Picture http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/19lzy5/this_is_my_son_dexter_he_picked_these_flowers/

36. Dexter’s Picture http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/19lzy5/this_is_my_son_dexter_he_picked_these_flowers/

37. Dexter’s Picture http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/19lzy5/this_is_my_son_dexter_he_picked_these_flowers/

43. Námsefnisgerð í HTML

44. www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut

45. thor.vma.is/tut/

46. thor.vma.is/tut/

51. www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut

56. thesealevel.de

57. thesealevel.de

58. thesealevel.de

66. Since then I’ve spoken a few
times about the idea that by
narrating our work, we
can perhaps restore
some of what was lost
when factories and
then offices made
work opaque and not
easily observable.
Software developers are in
the vanguard of this
reintegration, because our
work processes as well as
our work processes are fully
mediated by digital
networks. But it can happen
in other lines of work too,
and I’m sure it will.

70. Not Default

71. open as in stuff

72. It’s about open attitudes

73. cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo by cogdogblog: http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/344384924/
openness facilitates the
unexpected
--David Wiley

74. Open Ed 2009

75. http://stories.cogdogblog.com

76. stories.cogdogblog.com

79. I Share Therefore I Go To Hollywood
(Jess McCulloch)

80. From Closed to Open Photographer,Teacher,
Potential Remixee (Jonathan Worth)

81. Thunder Bay StudentsVideo Seen Aboard
International Space Station (Donna Fry)

82. Sharing Sunflower Seeds and Ideas
(Jason Toal)

83. http://stories.cogdogblog.com/call-for-stories/

84. start small
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by JD Hancock: http://flickr.com/photos/jdhancock/3961002721/

85. make it useful
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by michael pollak: http://flickr.com/photos/michaelpollak/7249219958/

86. be yourself
cc licensed ( BY ) deviantART image by plastikstuhl: http://plastikstuhl.deviantart.com/art/Self-made-Discord-Lamp-356275681

87. participate with others
communicate cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by Ars Electronica: http://flickr.com/photos/arselectronica/5516669647/

88. find your comfort level
and go beyond
public domain wikmedia photo http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Navy_030513-
N-5319A-009_Plebes_participate_in_an_11.5_hour_rigorous_physical_and_mental_challenges_at_the_United_States_Naval_Academy.jpg

89. Enquire Within