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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?

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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 teacher professionalism Increases equity FREE

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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

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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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 Supplies license 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?

Questions

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