Monday, April 8, 2013

Week 6- FREE Resources!!! Creative Commons and Open Educational Resources

Designed by coerll
This week is all about where to find resources for use in the classroom.  Every educator in the 21st Century should be able to find things for free, vet them and know how to give credit where credit is due.

I'm sure you've searched YouTube
and found videos you've liked, possibly even shared them with your students.  Have you found entire textbooks?  Animated lessons?  That's what you will be exploring this week.  



4/08/13 Week 6 - Harnessing the Power of the Web- Part 2- FREE resources!


The resources for Activity 12 are science and math heavy, that just seems to be where the OER world is going deep.  For those of you outside of math and science, spend some extra time in Creative Commons area of Activity 11 and exploring the MIT content of Activity 12.  

I have a favor to ask this week, in posting comments to your blogs, I have to enter catchas every time.  Those are the jumbled up words and numbers that verify whether or not you are human.  If you watch this short Jing (screen capture) you'll see where to turn these off in the "settings" of your blog.

Note:  One resource not covered in the activities for this week is iTunes U.  iTunesU is a great resource, but is limited to Apple users, the content does not work on PC's or other tablets.  If you have an iPad or a Mac, it's worth exploring.