A presentation for IRA 2012 by Karen Fasimpaur Licensed CC BY - Please share!

2. www.k12opened.com/ira2012
Opportunities to interact with
your laptop or cell phone
Text a message including 432936
to 22333

3. What I believe and why I got
involved in OER
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Differentiating instruction is essential to
improving education.
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Textbooks are not a good tool for this.
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Technology coupled with high quality content is.
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Teachers and students need high quality
resources that they can use legally to build and
share interactive lessons, podcasts, multimedia
presentations, etc.
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Sharing is good and is a part of new literacies.

4. What is OER?
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Digital, free, and OPEN for anyone to use,
adapt, and redistribute
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Tools, content, and implementation
resources
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For teachers, students, and lifelong learners

5. How is OER relevant to
education?
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Suitable for “remixing” for differentiation
− Examples
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Increases equity
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FREE
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Modelling 21st century skills as a source of
content for teachers and students to build
from legally
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Wise use of public funds

6. Traditional
copyright - Public domain -
all rights unrestricted
reserved use
Copyright with
open licenses -
some rights
reserved

7. Attribution (BY) ▪ Non-commercial (NC) ▪
No derivatives (ND) ▪ Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA)
C
Recommended for education:
CC BY

8. 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.

9. 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
T
Teacher’s Domain)

10. Citing Sources
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ALWAYS cite sources; attribution required by
CC
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Can be under the image or at the end in credits
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Screen names are ok
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(optional) Include source URL

11. More Formal Citation Formats
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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.
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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

12. Where to find the best OER
http://content.k12opened.com

14. Multimedia
“Building Blocks”

17. Over
221 million
open-
licensed
photos

29. Reading Intervention

34. Ebooks and
Audiobooks
Credit: Evan-Amos

38. Open Dictionary
for Kids

42. Resources
for Teachers

47. How You Can Open License
Your Own Work

Just write “licensed under Creative Commons
CC BY” on the work
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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

48. How You Can Contribute
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If you publish something you are willing to
share, open license it.
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Post photos (to Flickr or elsewhere) with an
open license. .
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Publish on an open platform like Wikispaces.
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If you see a mistake on a wiki like Wikipedia,
FIX IT!
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Tell three people you know about open
content and Creative Commons

49. Conclusion
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Questions, comments, and sharing of
experiences and resources

www.k12opened.com/IRA2012
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Thank you for coming!

50. Thank you.
Karen Fasimpaur
karen@k12opened.com
First screen image credits:
Linux computer lab – Michael Surran
Linux penguin - Larry Ewing <lewing@isc.tamu.edu> with the GIMP
Books - Tizzie
Globe – NASA
Cloud background - Anca Mosoiu