Free, Open, and Digital Resource: Share, Remix Learn
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Transcript of Free, Open, and Digital Resource: Share, Remix Learn
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What is a particularly powerful learning experience you’ve been a part of in a classroom situation?
Outside of the classroom?
Credit: Dan Zelazo
Credit: Flick user albertogp123
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What I believe and why I got involved in open resources
Differentiating instruction is essential to improving education.
Textbooks are not a good tool for this. Technology coupled with high quality content is. Teachers and students need high quality
resources that they can use legally to build upon.
Teacher and student innovation is key. Sharing is good.
What are OER?
OER = open educational resources Digital, free, and OPEN for anyone to use,
adapt, and redistribute
How is OER relevant to education?
Suitable for “remixing” for differentiation Examples
Increases equity FREE
Traditional copyright -
all rights reserved
Public domain - unrestricted
use
Traditional copyright -
all rights reserved
Public domain - unrestricted
use
Copyright with open licenses -
some rights reserved
Attribution (BY) ▪ Non-commercial (NC) ▪
No derivatives (ND) ▪ Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA)
Recommended for education:
CC BY
Creative Commons: CC BY – You can use however you want; just cite
the source.
CC BY SA – You can use however you want, but you must cite the source AND license your work under a sharing license.
CC BY NC – You can use only if it is noncommercial (you can’t charge $); cite the source.
CC BY ND – You can use the work but you can’t change it or put it into a bigger work; also cite the source.
Others:
GFDL – Share-alike license used by Wikipedia and others.
Public domain – not copyrighted; you can use however you like.
Custom licenses (e.g. morguefile and Teacher’s Domain)
Citing Sources
ALWAYS cite sources Can be under the image or at the end in credits Screen names are ok (optional) Include source URL
More Formal Citation Formats
MLA
Author’s name, the name of the work, publication/site, the date of creation, and the medium of publication
Bronayur. “Hershey, PA sign.” Wikipedia, Jan. 9, 2007. JPG file.
APA
Name of the organization, followed by the date. In brackets, provide a brief explanation of what type of data is there and in what form it appears. Finally, provide the project name and retrieval information.
Hershey, PA sign. (Jan. 9, 2007). [Photo of Hershey, PA sign, JPG]. Wikipedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hershey_Pennsylvania_1.JPG
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Content – Photos , Clip Art, and Video
Photos Flickr (CC) - Advanced search Wikipedia Wikimedia Commons Google Images – Advanced image search The Open Photo Project
Clip art WPClipArt Open Clip Art Library
Content – Music and Sound
Video Khan Academy NextVista Wikimedia Commons Teacher’s Domain
Music and sound MusOpen ccMixter The FreeSound project
Content – Education
Lesson Plans Curriki BetterLesson
Open Textbooks CK12 Connexions Wikibooks
Curriculum FreeReading
Content – Education (cont.)
Online courses NROC and Hippocampus MERLOT MIT OpenCourseWare
Other educational content PhET Kids Open Dictionary Ebooks OER Commons
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Remixing and the Common Core
We have a unique opportunity
Common Core + digital + open + teacher and student innovation = a new era in curriculum
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How You Can Open License Your Own Work
Just write “licensed under Creative Commons CC BY” on the work
Use the Creative Commons “Choose a License” tool Will provide you with artwork Optional code you can put on a web site to be
accessed by open search engines
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How You Can Contribute
If you publish something you are willing to share, open license it.
Post photos (to Flickr or elsewhere) with an open license.
Publish on an open platform like Wikispaces. Innovate and collaborate with others on social
media and on P2PU. Tell three people you know about open
content and Creative Commons
What is one resource or tool that you learned about today that you can take back to use to help differentiate your classroom?
Your questions
Thank you.
Karen Fasimpaur
First screen image credits:
Linux computer lab – Michael SurranLinux penguin - Larry Ewing <[email protected]> with the GIMPBooks - TizzieGlobe – NASACloud background - Anca Mosoiu
