{"id":700,"date":"2009-07-09T21:01:25","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T05:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/?p=700"},"modified":"2009-07-13T10:49:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T18:49:33","slug":"new-forms-and-forums-how-press-cooperatives-are-launched-and-why-its-a-good-thing-the-session-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/2009\/07\/09\/new-forms-and-forums-how-press-cooperatives-are-launched-and-why-its-a-good-thing-the-session-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"New Forms and Forums: How Press Cooperatives are Launched and Why it&#8217;s a Good Thing: The Session Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Freire Project \" src=\"http:\/\/freire.mcgill.ca\/files\/acquia_marina_logo.jpg\" alt=\"(Source: http:\/\/freire.mcgill.ca\/files\/acquia_marina_logo.jpg)\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freire Project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/freire.mcgill.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenters:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Shirley Steinberg &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">McGill University<\/a>. Director, The Paulo and Nita Freire\u00a0International Project for Critical Pedagogy.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/people.mcgill.ca\/shirley.steinberg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bio<\/a><\/li>\n<li>David Smith \u00a0&#8211; Technical Manager, The Paulo and Nita Freire\u00a0International Project for Critical Pedagogy. <a href=\"http:\/\/pkp.sfu.ca\/ocs\/index\/php\/pkp2009\/rt\/bio\/217\/0\" target=\"_blank\">Bio<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>July 9, 2009, 4:00-pm-4:30 pm. SFU Harbour Centre. Rm 7000<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/pkp.sfu.ca\/ocs\/pkp\/index.php\/pkp2009\/pkp2009\/paper\/view\/217\" target=\"_blank\">Abstract<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Session Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Through McGIll University&#8217;s Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy, Dr. Steinberg and\u00a0Mr. Smith have worked to help other centres with similar interests publish \u00a0open access scholarly work as well as create communication networks to take advantage of social networking and other less formal publishing opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal; \">Dr. Steinberg spoke about the creative aspects of going from a journal in one&#8217;s mind to actually creating an open access journal. She noted that when working with associations, if they already had a print journal then it was a relatively easy transition to an open access online journal. However, \u00a0the challenge is much greater for groups that don&#8217;t have previous experience creating a journal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal; \">Dr. Steinberg illustrated her talk with the example helping Australian educators with the creation of a new journal: antipodes: a journal of critical southern education. Similar to Canada, the Australian educators face considerable challenges based on the difficulty in physically getting people together to communicate. Additionally, their government insists on a strict hierarchically tiered referred journal system. In this case, Dr. Steinberg noted that they focused first on creating a network of critical educators before they \u00a0concentrated on creating the journal. As a result of , in addition to the community having a focus on critical pedagogy, they also had the common goal of discussing new models for peer refereed journals. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Mr. Smith continued the talk with some of the more technical as well as social networking aspects of their project. He started by commenting on a number of inspiring aspect from John Willinsky&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/lidcvan\/clients\/library\/PKP_Publishing_Conference_July08-10_2009\/PKP_Conference_08-07-2009.mov\" target=\"_self\">keynote<\/a> address.\u00a0Mr Smith noted that the International Journal of Critical Pedagogy (<a href=\"http:\/\/freire.mcgill.ca\/ojs\/index.php\/home\/index\" target=\"_blank\">IJCP<\/a>) \u00a0uses the Open Journal System (<a href=\"http:\/\/pkp.sfu.ca\/?q=ojs\" target=\"_blank\">OJS<\/a>). \u00a0But he pointed out that the journal is difficult to find from the Centre&#8217;s website since they are struggling with the best way to present the link (conceptually) between them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal; \">Furthermore, Mr. Smith commented that the centre&#8217;s site is still being developed and they are trying to make it a better tool to connect people. Mr. Smith commented that they would like the site to be more than just a repository for formal scholarly work (e.g. referred journal) and that they are interested in promoting less formal \u00a0but still very valuable modes of communication as well (e.g. blogs, wikis, forums). As an example of the benefit of these social networking possibilities, Mr. Smith provided an anecdote about an educator from St. Lucia whom he has become familiar with through the Centre&#8217;s website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion and audience questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Dr. Steinberg responded to an audience question saying that if the local scholars were not already grounded in possible economic models for open access journals that she would help them work through various options. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: normal; \">One audience member asked about the possibility of integrating Drupal with the OJS, and Mr. Smith answered that he is very enthusiastic about the possibilities of connecting the two.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: normal; \">Dr. John Willinsky commented that these presentations reminded him that the importance is far greater than the journals only being free. He sees these examples as highlighting \u00a0the importance of the networking and criticism opportunities that help to contribute to to creating a critical culture. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: normal; \">Another audience member commented that that there appears to be a relationship between more people submitting to the open access journals and more them doing more reviewing. That is, they are reviewing more work than they were before.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Related Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freire.mcgill.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/et-freir.htm\" target=\"_blank\">About Paulo Freire<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu\/~stevens\/critped\/definitions.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Pedagogy<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Public Knowledge Project Open Journal System (<a href=\"http:\/\/pkp.sfu.ca\/?q=ojs\" target=\"_blank\">OJS<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/drupal.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drupal<\/a> &#8211; Open Source Content Management Software<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source) Presenters: Dr. Shirley Steinberg &#8211; McGill University. Director, The Paulo and Nita Freire\u00a0International Project for Critical Pedagogy.\u00a0Bio David Smith \u00a0&#8211; Technical Manager, The Paulo and Nita Freire\u00a0International Project for Critical Pedagogy. Bio July 9, 2009, 4:00-pm-4:30 pm. SFU Harbour Centre. Rm 7000 Abstract Session Overview Through McGIll University&#8217;s Paulo and Nita Freire International Project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4351],"tags":[2579,660,2676,4370,4368,52],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-themed-sessions","tag-critical-pedagogy","tag-drupal","tag-journals","tag-ojs","tag-open-source-software","tag-open-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}