{"id":63,"date":"2008-02-15T13:15:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T20:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/63"},"modified":"2008-02-15T13:19:52","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T20:19:52","slug":"open-ed-hands-on-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/63","title":{"rendered":"Open Ed Hands On Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a part of my interest in <strong>building awareness for OER in the K-12 community<\/strong>, I&#8217;ve been doing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\">presentations<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/wiki\/index.php\/Presentations\" target=\"_blank\">various ed tech conferences<\/a>. I have been very happy with how enthusiastic the audiences have been about this topic. (Most of them have not heard of OER before.) Not only are they excited about &#8220;free stuff,&#8221; but they really understand how OER could provide a alternative to traditional textbooks and software.<\/p>\n<p>Several groups have asked me to expand my one-hour presentation to a half- or full-day hands-on workshop. In doing this, I&#8217;ve set up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/wiki\/index.php\/Handson\" target=\"_blank\">hands on activities posted here<\/a>. These are designed to be short activities that folks can do in a short time to get familiar with wiki editing, licensing issues, mass collaboration, and curriculum sharing.<\/p>\n<p>As with the presentation materials, this is all licensed under CC-BY-SA, so feel free to use and adapt for your own workshops or other uses.<\/p>\n<p>And if you have ideas for other short, easy-to-do activities to get folks excited about OER, I&#8217;d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a part of my interest in building awareness for OER in the K-12 community, I&#8217;ve been doing presentations at various ed tech conferences. I have been very happy with how enthusiastic the audiences have been about this topic. (Most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6mlV-11","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}