Learning Platforms
Moodle is a wonderful replacement for Google Classroom. Teachers can post their entire curriculum, create quizzes, grade and put deadlines on calendars for students. It’s a nice all in one solution.
Communication Tools
Big Blue Button is great for video conferencing with chat, screen sharing, breakout rooms, password protection and polls.
https://bigbluebutton.org/teachers/
Jitsi Meet is another great video conferencing tool that doesn’t require any user accounts and still has password protection!
Community Development
Online Circle Keeper Toolkit by Center for Restorative Justice
Organizing Peer-to-Peer Debian Facilitation Training by Delib
Defining Terms
Read a working definition of a free cultural work here:
https://freedomdefined.org/Definition
Read the definition of free software here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition
Inspirations
With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge – we’ll make it a thing of the past.”
Aaron Swartz
What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
Maya Angelou
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
bell hooks
This page is a work in progress and will be continually updated.