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Open Education Workshop
Hands On Activities

1. Go to the K12 Open Ed wiki (where you are right now) and create a new account.

2. Go to Curriki and create a new account. (Become a member.)

3. Go to Free-Reading and create a new account.

4. Go to the K12 Open Ed wiki, sign in, and create your user page. To do this, just click your name at the top of the page, and edit the page.

- Write a couple sentences telling about yourself, your work, or whatever you’d like.

- Try some formatting. Use the tools above to add bold, italic, title text, etc.

- Link to a web page. Highlight the text, and click the  link above. 
  Paste the URL with the http:// inside the first square bracket, so that 
  it looks like this [http://www.k12handhelds.com K12 Handhelds]

- Find an open-licensed picture (one of your own or one from  one of these sites) and 
  add it to your wiki page. To do this, you'll need to upload the image with the
  "Upload file" link in the toolbox to the left. Then link to it with the   
   link above.

5. Other things to try:

Be bold!

• Go to the K12 Open Content CD page and add a suggestion to the Discussion area for resources you’d like to see available for K-12. Then click here to take a short survey.

• Go to the K-8 Math Collaborative in Curriki, and log in.

(If you weren’t able to register, you can use the guest logins k12guest1 – k12guest5. Password is the same as the name.)

- Join the group (bottom of the page).

- Click the Curriculum tab.

- Choose a grade level, and click Add to add a resource.

- Either upload your own file (such as a Word document) or create a new resource 
  using a template.

- Follow the prompts, and add your word problem(s).

• Go to Free-Reading.

- If you are an early literacy teacher, add an early literacy activity suggestion.

- Discuss an activity. Just click the Discuss tab to add your ideas, comments, 
  thoughts, etc.

- Rate an activity, or send one to a friend. Look under Find Specific Activities 
  and go to the supplemental activities at the bottom of the page. 

• Go to Wikijunior and find a book. Add information, make changes to make materials more age appropriate, or fix mistakes. (You don’t need to log in to edit on this site.)

• If you have a document for a favorite activity or lesson that you have copyright to and are willing to license under Creative Commons and share with others, upload it to a site like Curriki or Wikieducator.

• If you have a Flickr account, go change the license to photos you are willing to share.

• Go to Wikibooks, Wikipedia or Wikitravel. Find an article on something you know a lot about, like your home town, a hobby, your favorite topic to teach, etc. Add information, make changes to clarify, or fix mistakes. (You don’t need to log in to edit these sites.)

• If you’re interested in working on a project to create a free open kids dictionary, sign up here.

• Explore more Open Ed resources.