Gather your resources [Oct. 23, 2012, 2:21 p.m.]

Deciding what to share

What do you want to share? Will it be course lectures and presentations? Student notes and projects? Will you be building a website or learning modules? Posting a series of photos or making a video? In this step, identify all that you’ll hope to publish as OER. Go back to your sharing goals if you need to.

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Ensure that all materials are in their native file formats, e.g. MS PowerPoint (.ppt), MS Word (.doc), OpenOffice.org Writer (.odt). This ensures that you and others you’re working with can easily make any necessary edits and additions to the content. You’ll also want to convert .pdf documents and uncommon file types into formats you and others can easily edit.

Online collaborative working spaces like Google Docs and EtherPads are great for building documents or presentations as a group. These can then be exported in a variety of editable formats or even shared directly online with the public.

Getting your stuff

Pulling together resources can take a little time and thought. It's all about context. We recommend going through another course at P2PU on how to Teach Someone Something with Open Content. This course gets you thinking about the process of helping someone learn while using open materials from the start.

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As your gathering your resources, seperate them into two piles:

Stuff that you created
Stuff that others created

See task 4 for licensing the stuff that you created

See task 5 for assessing the stuff that others created.

And don't forget: when you're grabbing all these resources from the web (or books), don't forget to bring along the attribution and source information! You'll want it later.