LeMill is a web community for finding, authoring and sharing open educational resources. It is an open source platform developed by the CALIBRATE EU project. LeMill resources include content like media files, as well as activities, methods and tools. Teachers can create different types of learning resources like multimedia pages and presentations by uploading files and adding text and metadata. Resources on LeMill are published under open licenses like Creative Commons to encourage sharing and reuse.
1. LeMill
Hans Põldoja
University of Art and Design Helsinki
hans.poldoja@uiah.fi
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sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San
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http://www.hanspoldoja.net
4. What is LeMill?
• Web community for finding, authoring and sharing
open and free learning resources
• Open source server software developed in EU 6FP
project CALIBRATE
• Learning Mill
6. Design session results
• Teachers are not very
interested in raw text
material
• Teachers are
interested in activities
and methods
• Learning resources
can be divided to
content, activities and
tools
20. Simple licensing scheme
All resources created in LeMill
are published under Creative
Commons Attribution-
ShareAlike 2.5 license
Media pieces can be also:
- Public Domain
- GNU FDL
21. More than content
• Methods
• Tools
• Collections
• Teaching and
learning stories
45. What are media files?
• Images: JPEG, GIF, PNG
• Sounds: MP3
• Movies: FLV
46. Which media files can I add?
• Media files that are photographed or recorded by
you
• Media files that are under compatible open license:
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license
- Creative Commons Attribution license
- GNU Free Documentation License
- Public Domain
47. Photos under open license...
... can be found in:
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/
- http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-2.0/
- http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-sa-2.0/
51. • Go to http://www.flickr.com/
creativecommons/by-2.0/
• Find a photo about Czech
• Write down the author and
license
• Save the photo to your computer
52. • Go to http://www.flickr.com/
creativecommons/by-2.0/
• Find a photo about Czech
• Write down the author and
license
• Save the photo to your computer
53. • Go to http://www.flickr.com/
creativecommons/by-2.0/
• Find a photo about Czech
• Write down the author and
license
• Save the photo to your computer
54. • Go to http://www.flickr.com/
creativecommons/by-2.0/
• Find a photo about Czech
• Write down the author and
license
• Save the photo to your computer
55. • In LeMill Content section click on
“New content”
• Choose “Add media piece...”
• Upload the file from your
computer
• Add title, description and tags
• Add copyright information
56. • In LeMill Content section click on
“New content”
• Choose “Add media piece...”
• Upload the file from your
computer
• Add title, description and tags
• Add copyright information
57. • In LeMill Content section click on
“New content”
• Choose “Add media piece...”
• Upload the file from your
computer
• Add title, description and tags
• Add copyright information
58. • In LeMill Content section click on
“New content”
• Choose “Add media piece...”
• Upload the file from your
computer
• Add title, description and tags
• Add copyright information
59. • In LeMill Content section click on
“New content”
• Choose “Add media piece...”
• Upload the file from your
computer
• Add title, description and tags
• Add copyright information
61. • In LeMill Content section click on
“New content”
• Choose “New learning
resource...”
• Choose “Multimedia page”
• Write a short text and add a
media piece
• Add additional information
62. • In LeMill Content section click on
“New content”
• Choose “New learning
resource...”
• Choose “Multimedia page”
• Write a short text and add a
media piece
• Add additional information
63. • In LeMill Content section click on
“New content”
• Choose “New learning
resource...”
• Choose “Multimedia page”
• Write a short text and add a
media piece
• Add additional information
64. • In LeMill Content section click on
“New content”
• Choose “New learning
resource...”
• Choose “Multimedia page”
• Write a short text and add a
media piece
• Add additional information
65. • In LeMill Content section click on
“New content”
• Choose “New learning
resource...”
• Choose “Multimedia page”
• Write a short text and add a
media piece
• Add additional information