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What I believe and why I got involved in Open Education

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.

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

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 Stock.XCHNG)

Citing Sources

ALWAYS cite sources

Can be under the image or at the end in credits

Screen names are ok

(optional) Include source URL

Content – General Multimedia

Photos and video

Flickr (CC)

The Open Photo Project

Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons

NextVista

Music and sound

ccMixter

MusOpen

The FreeSound project

Content – Education

Wikibooks

FreeReading

Curriki

Kids Open Dictionary

OER Commons

MIT OpenCourseWare

Ebooks

More...

Places to Search for CC Content

Flickr

Advanced search

Google Images

Advanced search

Picasa

Show options

Creative Commons site

Conversion Tools

Zamzar.com

YouConvertIt.com

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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 in Wikipedia, FIX IT!

Tell three people you know about open content and Creative Commons

Thank you.

Karen Fasimpaur

www.k12opened.com

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