Gather your Resources [Oct. 9, 2012, 12:14 p.m.]
Decide 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.
A couple of hints:
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
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.
Thinking ahead (more hints)
As your gathering your resources, seperate them into two piles:
Stuff that you created
Stuff that others created
See step ## for licensing the stuff that you created
See step ## for assessing the stuff that others created.
When you're pulling resources together, don't forget to bring along the attribution and source information! You'll want it later.