The BO.LT Page Sharing Service and OERs
Brian Kelly,
Apr 22, 2011
Brian Kelly links to a TechCrunch article on the bo.lt page editing service. Bo.lt, "as the TechCrunch article announced 'lets you copy, edit and share any page. As the first comment to the article put it: I can just see it…this will make it easier for 1) people to create fake bank statements, 2) awesome mocking of news headlines, 3) derivative web designs.'" Well, yeah, but as Kelly notes, "Might a service such as Bo.lt have a role to play in enabling such resources to be reused,I wonder? Will Bo.lt turn out to be a threat to our institutions (allowing, for examples, disgruntled students unhappy at having to pay £9,000 to go to University to create parodies of corporate Web pages) or a useful tool to allow learners to be creative without having to master complex authoring tools?" With luck, both.
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