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Five digital citizenship activities everyone should know about

Hapara

The lesson plans include slides, videos, handouts and quizzes. PBS Learning Media videos PBS Learning has a video series for middle school and high school students called “Above the Noise.” You can also assign the videos directly to Google Classroom. They are also available in English or Spanish.

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How to use digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom

Hapara

They come from sources such as the Michigan Open Book Project, Core Knowledge, CK-12, OpenStax and OER Commons. Learners will read about and discuss rules, decision-making and how to socialize in the classroom. The textbook includes large text, pictures and videos. It’s broken into nineteen 45-minute lessons.

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Moodle and the next LMS: reflections and more questions

Bryan Alexander

The full video recording is now available on YouTube : During the hour Forum participants offered many questions. Text question from Ed Finn: OER Game Changer – Moodle Community could separate it from Canvas and Blackboard who keep these types of sharing resources behind a wall. Does that debate interest you at all?

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Curation and the School Librarian

NeverEndingSearch

A little while back I had the opportunity to create a video on school librarians and social media curation with our Rutgers’ School of Communication and Information’s Social Media and Society Cluster. OER and you: The curation mandate. Curation Situations Poster.

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Once Reviled in Education, Wikipedia Now Embraced By Many Professors

Edsurge

It doesn't incorporate video well. I hear more often these days about teaching with free online materials instead of traditional textbooks (known as OER). The OER conversation is very energized right now, and it's a complex conversation. I tend to focus on aspects of OER depending on the audience. Absolutely. Absolutely.

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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

NeverEndingSearch

Our digital front doors allowed us to: share and scale our resources ensure the ROI for our purchases leverage a growing number of OER promote collaborative efforts and highlight the work of my classroom teacher partners share our library as part of our school culture through image galleries, video channels, and social media feeds ensure that learners (..)

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Online Learning Book Recommendations: And Why I Read so Few Books on the Topic

Edsurge

Tim Carson, Skilled Trades and OER Advocate First, allow me to tell you why I don’t typically read books about online learning. Each lesson has a well-curated collection of videos, readings and other resources. In fact, he welcomes us to share what we are learning by using the class hashtag across a variety of social media.