This course will become read-only in the near future. Tell us at community.p2pu.org if that is a problem.
This course will explore how a variety of free, open educational resources (OERs) can be used in K-12 classrooms. In this course, you will research, remix, and use OERs suitable to your students' needs and also publish some of your own educational resources under an open license. Plan to come learn and teach as a part of this course community; open to U.S. K-12 educators.
License: CC BY; Credit: K12 Handhelds
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
For the remaining two weeks, you have two projects to work on. As always, you can customize these projects to serve your own goals and/or collaborate with others.
The main goal though, is to produce at least two open resources that are useful to your students and the rest of the world!
The first project involves remixing. You're asked to find an open resource that relates to something you're doing in school and then remix it to be more useful or appropriate to your students (or some subgroup of your students).
What you choose is entirely up to you. You could choose an open-licensed:
or something else. Just make sure that whatever you choose is open licensed and permits remix or alteration. (No derivatives licenses will not work.)
Then evaluate the resource to make it more appropriate for your students. Again, how you change it and what tools you use to do so are up to you! You can collaborate with others on this if you like.
Here are some ways you might remix something:
If you're struggling to figure out what to do with this assignment, just ask!
After your remix is done, you'll want to post it to share with others. (Sometimes folks are hesitant to post publicly, but don't be! It's all about sharing.)
You could do this on your own web site, but you'll get more traffic and benefit more people if you put it on a repository like Curriki. Here's what you need to do:
This project involves publishing something of your own under an open license.
It should obviously be someting you are willing to share and that you have all the rights to (i.e. the work is original). It can be something that you have already created or something you create now. Again, it should be something you can use in your classroom.
All of the above-mentioned ideas apply for things you might create and publish.
If you choose something that you have already created, go through it for any clip art, photos, or other content that might not be open licensed that you need to replace. The Multimedia Content tab of the OER Livebinder has some great sites where you can find open-licensed clip art, photos, video, and music to supplement your work.
As before, when you're done:
Here are some other optional OER projects you can do to share and make the world a better place:
I read about OER Glue in a tweet yesterday and love what this service is providing. Very slick the way it will allow you to pull together resources. I installed the Chrome extension but have not been able to successfully get it working.
Has anybody else tried this and had any luck?
I pulled together a media set on home gardening that is targeted for an elementary audience. Since I use a Mac and cannot add to the properties as listed, I included an RTF file with credit, license and URL information. http://whateverthatmeans.com/media/Home_Garden_Media_Set.zip (21.3MB)
Karen, would this be acceptable or does the info need to be attached to each media asset?
Assuming I can run out and get a new headset, my goal is to create a Voicethread presentation to provide a narrative to the images. More to come...
Very cool. Thanks.
An rtf file is a fine way to provide credits. (I like them attached to the image only because it's less likely that they get "lost." I though there was a way to do this on a Mac...maybe with a utility?....I'm not sure but will chek into it.)
At any rate, this looks great. I hope you'll post on Curriki or in another repository as well so others can access or use this.
By the way, I do a community event each year for kids that is focused on local heritage. Next year, we wanted to do something on gardening. This would be great for that! Thanks for sharing.
http://oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/mathmagician/cathymath.html
I found this site very helpful for students to learn. So, i want to share with you.. hope you liked it
Here's a nice mini-course on Creative Commons from Mark over at our online learning course.
It's also a good example of remixing as he uses a variety of videos and other content that is open-licensed. Nice credits too!
I have published a couple of tutorials I have put together for my students on Curriki under the name Chemistry Queen. I hope you science teachers find these to be helpful. If there is any interest in more of them I have several more that I have and continue to use with my students that you are welcome to. (Why reinvent the wheel? )
That's awesome, Sarah! Here's a link for anyone interested in these.
Thanks for sharing!
Here's a big remix project I've been working on.
FreeReading is a great site with a full reading intervention program for grades K-3. It's research-based and very comprehensive.
One of my favorite parts of the site are decodable fiction and nonfiction reading passages. The only problem is that they are only in PDF format, which isn't great for mobile devices or for interactive student work.
So I remixed these into some other formats -- Powerpoints, jpg artwork, and VoiceThreads (with audio and a way to interact). These are now available on Curriki. All open licensed, of course. Having great "building material" like this to start with made this easy work.
Cite the site. Cite the source. Tru in OER even if something's deeep inside your remix.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2011/10/24/circular-quoting/
