An overview of Open Educational Resources and how they can be used in K-12 education; see http://www.k12opened.com/about for more resources.

2. What I believe and why I got involved in Open Education Differentiating instruction is essential to improving education. Textbooks are not a good tool for this. Technology coupled with high quality content is. Sharing is good. Everyone deserves a free, high quality education. The current educational bureaucracy is not likely to embrace OER projects.

3. Open Educational Resources (OER) are: Digital Free and open Tools, content, and implementation resources For teachers, students, and lifelong learners

4. Mass collaboration has resulted in the most widely-used web server software the most popular encyclopedia sequencing of the human genome What could it do for education?

5. Traditional copyright - all rights reserved Public domain - unrestricted use Copyright with open licenses - some rights reserved

6. Attribution (BY) ▪ Non-commercial (NC) ▪ No derivatives (ND) ▪ Copyleft - Share-Alike (SA) Recommended for education: CC BY or CC SA

7. Tools Operating systems (= more affordable hardware) Ubuntu Xandros (eee PC) Wikis, blogs, and course management MediaWiki Wikispaces WordPress ( .com and .org ) Moodle

8. Tools (cont.) Productivity tools Open Office GIMP Audacity CamStudio More The OpenDisc SourceForge SchoolForge

9. Content – General Multimedia Photos and video The Open Photo Project Flickr (CC) Wikimedia Commons NextVista Music and sound ccMixter MusOpen The FreeSound project

10. Content – Education Wikibooks FreeReading Curriki Kids Open Dictionary OER Commons MIT OpenCourseWare Ebooks More...

11. How You Can Contribute If you publish something you are willing to share, open license it Publish on an open platform like Wikispaces Post photos (to Flickr or elsewhere) with an open license If you see a mistake in Wikipedia, FIX IT! Add something to a topic in Wikipedia or Wikibooks Write a definition in the Kids Open Dictionary Tell three people you know about OER

12. Thank you. Karen Fasimpaur www.k12opened.com [email_address] First screen image credits: Linux computer lab – Michael Surran Linux penguin - Larry Ewing <lewing@isc.tamu.edu> with the GIMP Books - Tizzie Globe – NASA Cloud background - Anca Mosoiu