Learning at NCCE08
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Karen Fasimpaur – Free Content + Open Tools + Massive Collaboration = Learning For All
Karen discussed the Open Educational Resource (OER) movement. She first addressed copyright and the creative commons licensing (www.creativecommons.org). She shared several open source tools that I was already familiar with, like: (MediaWiki, WordPress, Moodle, Open Office, The Open CD, GIMP, Audacity, and CamStudio).
The focus of her presentation, though, was on open CONTENT that can be used for educational purposes. She gave permission for all of us to share her resources so here I go:
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Open Licenses You Can Use
Creative Commons – www.creativecommons.org
(The CC BY-SA or CC BY are recommended licenses for education.)
GFDL – www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
Tools
MediaWiki (wikis) – www.mediawiki.org
WordPress (blogs) – www.wordpress.org
www.wordpress.com will host your blog as well.
Moodle (course management) – www.moodle.org
OpenOffice (productivity) – www.openoffice.org
The Open CD (various) – www.theopencd.org
GIMP (image editing) – www.gimp.org
Audacity (sound editing) – http://audacity.sourceforge.net
CamStudio (screen recording) – www.camstudio.org
Content
Freely Usable Audio Content*
ccMixter – www.ccmixter.org
Wikimedia Commons music – http://commons.wikimedia.org
Spoken Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Spoken_articles
The Freesound Project – http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
Common Content - www.commoncontent.org
Internet Archive – www.archive.org/details/audio
Freely Usable Photo and Video Content*
Wikimedia Commons – http://commons.wikimedia.org
flickr – www.flickr.com/
creativecommons/ Common Content – www.commoncontent.org
Morguefile – www.morguefile.com/
Stock.XCHNG – www.sxc.hu
* Make sure to read license terms for individual content sources.
Educational Content/Curriculum
Wikibooks and Wikijunior – www.wikibooks.org
Free-Reading – www.free-reading.net
Curriki – www.curriki.org
WikiEducator – www.wikieducator.org
OER Commons – www.oercommomns.org
Learn NC - www.learnnc.org
MIT OpenCourseware – http://ocw.mit.edu
Audio Books and Ebooks
LibriVox – www.librivox.org
Spoken
Telltale Weekly – www.telltaleweekly.org
Project Gutenberg – www.gutenberg.org
LoudLit.org – www.loudlit.org
Lit2Go – http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/
How You Can Share with the World
- Post photos to Flickr with an open license
- If you see a mistake or opportunity for clarification in Wikipedia or another wiki, do it!
- Add something to a topic you know about in Wikipedia
- Create a new article in Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikitravel, or elsewhere
- License your content (web site, lesson plans, photos, PPTs, etc.) with a CC license (We recommend CC BY SA for education.)
- Contribute to Wikibooks, Curriki, WikiEducator, or other OER sites
- Teach your students about open content
- Tell your friends about OER
