Open Educational Resources
Selected from OER Commons
Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs
I chose to incorporate this OER Digital Checklist with other criteria I have identified in the first 2 courses in this sequence, resulting in a two-part evaluation of the OER itself and the Online Lesson/Activity using the OER. This allowed me to include technical criteria with qualitative criteria. I chose Evernote to make my checklist because I have discovered how useful this tool can be in taking online courses and wanted to use it for a teaching purpose also. The benefit of this is that Evernote formats it in a professional way, easily turns it into a Template to be accessed and used repeatedly, and includes checkboxes that you can click on and off. In using the tool, I discovered that it was pretty user-friendly. I could just check the box or I could check the box and type in information in the Notes column for reference later.
For the Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs website I selected from oercommons.org, I was really impressed with its quality of materials, lessons, assessments, recommended sources, etc. This was a website that would be used directly by teachers and indirectly by students. Many of the activities were not digital, but did include multimedia aspects for the teacher to incorporate into lessons and assessments. The original content on the site was the curriculum, lessons, and assessments. The multimedia were included from outside sources like the Library of Congress, Teaching Tolerance, etc. Students would use a variety of digital resources in primary source analysis, projects, and research. I was glad to see that the Creative Commons license allowed for use and modification because the site was created using quote a few sources specific to Portland, OR - it could be used as a case study (especially for the connections to current events) or I could replace the site-specific info with sources from my local area (Raleigh-Durham, NC). More comments were included in my checklist in the Notes column.
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I chose to incorporate this OER Digital Checklist with other criteria I have identified in the first 2 courses in this sequence, resulting in a two-part evaluation of the OER itself and the Online Lesson/Activity using the OER. This allowed me to include technical criteria with qualitative criteria. I chose Evernote to make my checklist because I have discovered how useful this tool can be in taking online courses and wanted to use it for a teaching purpose also. The benefit of this is that Evernote formats it in a professional way, easily turns it into a Template to be accessed and used repeatedly, and includes checkboxes that you can click on and off. In using the tool, I discovered that it was pretty user-friendly. I could just check the box or I could check the box and type in information in the Notes column for reference later.
For the Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs website I selected from oercommons.org, I was really impressed with its quality of materials, lessons, assessments, recommended sources, etc. This was a website that would be used directly by teachers and indirectly by students. Many of the activities were not digital, but did include multimedia aspects for the teacher to incorporate into lessons and assessments. The original content on the site was the curriculum, lessons, and assessments. The multimedia were included from outside sources like the Library of Congress, Teaching Tolerance, etc. Students would use a variety of digital resources in primary source analysis, projects, and research. I was glad to see that the Creative Commons license allowed for use and modification because the site was created using quote a few sources specific to Portland, OR - it could be used as a case study (especially for the connections to current events) or I could replace the site-specific info with sources from my local area (Raleigh-Durham, NC). More comments were included in my checklist in the Notes column.