www.k12opened.com/about

What I believe and why I got involved in OER

Differentiating instruction is essential to improving education.

Textbooks are not a good tool for this. Technology coupled with high quality content is. Teachers need high quality resources that they

can use legally to build interactive lessons, podcasts, multimedia presentations, etc.

Sharing is good.

What is OER?

Open Educational Resources (OER) are:

Digital, free, and OPEN for anyone to use, adapt, and redistribute

Tools, content, and implementation resources

For teachers, students, and lifelong learners

How is OER relevant to education?

Suitable for “remixing” for differentiation Examples

Brings 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

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

Conversion Tools

Zamzar.com YouConvertIt.com

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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How You Can Open License Your Own Work

Just write “licensed under Creative Commons CC BY” on the work

Use the Creative Commons “License Your Work” 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 If you see a mistake on a wiki like Wikipedia,

FIX IT! Tell three people you know about open

content and Creative Commons

Thank you.

Karen Fasimpaur

karen@k12opened.com

First screen image credits:

Linux computer lab – Michael SurranLinux penguin - Larry Ewing <lewing@isc.tamu.edu> with the GIMPBooks - TizzieGlobe – NASACloud background - Anca Mosoiu