This is a short game that can be played with amateur users of learning repositories to attempt to teach them the basics of searching online for OER. The game is designed to be as simple as possible and allow for great flexibility in setting it up within a classroom or a workshop. For any advice on the game, please do not hesitate to contact me.

1. The OER Game!

2. Overview
• Phase Α: Searching OER
– Preparation
– OER Search Game
– Winner
• Phase B: Mixing & Matching OER
– Creation of Groups
– Remixing OER
– Presenting groupwork

3. Phase A
Searching OER

4. Cards (1/4)
• Role Cards
– Pupil/Student
– Educator
• Given randomly, independent from the real
identity of the participant

5. Cards (2/4)
• Repository Cards
– Greek and Worldwide repositories that provide
access to OERs
OER COMMONS PHOTODENTRO
LOR
PHOTODENTRO
UGC
PHOTODENTRO
OER
MULTIMEDIA
EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCE FOR
LEARNING &
ONLINE
TEACHING
LRE Repository
of OER
LeMill
REPOSITORY
DIGITAL
LIBRARY
SCIENTIX
PORTAL
LA FLOR
REPOSITORY
The OSR
PORTAL
OPEN
DISCOVERY
SPACE
PORTAL
PHOTODENTRO
CULTURAL

6. Cards (3/4)
• Subject Cards
– Pollution
– Climate Change
– School violence
– Joker card (free choice of subject)
ΧΗΜΙΚΕΣ
ΑΝΤΙΔΡΑΣΕΙΣ
ΚΛΙΜΑΤΙΚΗ
ΑΛΛΑΓΗ
ΜΟΛΥΝΣΗ
ΠΕΡΙΒΑΛΛΟΝΤΟΣ
ΕΝΔΟΣΧΟΛΙΚΗ
ΒΙΑ
ΠΥΘΑΓΟΡΕΙΟ
ΘΕΩΡΗΜΑ
ΤΡΟΦΙΚΗ
ΑΛΥΣΙΔΑ

7. Cards (4/4)
• Age Cards
– They define the age group of the students for
whom the OER retrieved should be appropriate
6-9 9-12 12-15 15-18

8. Preparation
• Check that your PC is connected to the
internet and that it also has a working browser
• Open a text editor of your choosing
– You will need this throughout the game

9. Starting the Game
• Beneath the keyboard of the computer in
front of you, you will find a card that contains
your role
– Pupil/student or Educator
• For the remaining of the game you will
retrieve OER, appropriate for use by the role
that you are assigned to

10. Process
• In each round, a repository card appears on
the screen in front of you, as well as a subject
card and an age card
• In this repository, you will search for OERs for
the specific subject, appropriate for your role
and also for the age group that the cards
indicate

11. Example 1
• You’re a pupil and you are looking within
Photodentro LOR, for OERs for the Pythagora’s
Theorem, targeted to your age group, that is
9-12 years old
PHOTODENTRO
LOR
PYTHAGORA’S
THEOREM
9-12

12. Example 2
• You are an educator and you search within the
OER Commons repository, material about
climate change, to prepare a lesson for
students from 12 to 15 years old
OER COMMONS
CLIMATE CHANGE
12-15

13. Example 3
• The players decide on the subject about which
they will be searching within OER Commons,
that should be for students from 12 to 15
years of age
OER COMMONS
12-15

14. End of Round
• The search lasts for 5 minutes
• When time end, the round is completed
• In the end of the round, the subject and the
results of the search, are transferred to the
text editor and the document is saved each
time to avoid data loss

15. Scoring
• In each round, you win:
– For a successful search – that’s one or more
results: 1 point
– For a failed search – no results: ½ point for trying
• The one that gets most points in the rounds
that will be played, is the winner

16. 1st Round
PHOTODENTRO
LOR
FOOD CHAIN
9-12

17. 2nd Round
PHOTODENTRO
LOR
9-12
POLLUTION

18. 3rd Round
MULTIMEDIA
EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCE FOR
LEARNING &
ONLINE TEACHING PLANETS
6-9

19. 4th Round
STRESS & MODERN
WAY OF LIFE
OER
COMMONS
15-18

20. 5th Round
PHOTODENTRO
CULTURAL
ANCIENT GREECE

21. Phase B
Mixing & Matching OERs

22. Creating Groups
• Each group will have 3-4 members and will
work on a specific subject preparing complex
OERs
• The results of the searches of Phase A will be
used during this part
– If you want, you may search for additional OERs in
this phase, but you will have to pay a price*

23. Example
PHOTODENTRO
LOR FOOD CHAIN
9-12
http://photodentro.edu.gr/lor/r/8521/8771?locale=el

24. Process
• The team that has the winner of the previous
phase, gets to pick a subject first
• If more than one winners came out, the team
of the oldest winner starts
– The rest go clockwise

25. Process
• You have 40 minutes at your disposal to
prepare two remixed OERs
– 1 for educators for the age range that was
selected in Phase A for the specific subject
– 1 for pupils, also for the same age range that was
selected in Phase A for the same subject
– Each remixed OER should contain from 2 to 5
OERs

26. *Looking for Extra OERs
• If the OERs from Phase A are not enough, you
can get an extra repository card and search
within it for an OER
• If you do that, then you can have as many as 4
(and not 5) OERs in your remixed OER

27. Preparation
• You have 10 minutes to prepare your
presentation
– Written, with gestures, narration, but not on the
PC!
– Split the roles and work together – collaborate
– Improvise!
– As a team…

28. Presentation
• You will get 2 minutes to present each one of
the two OERs that you create
• No questions at this stage, as all of them can
be asked and answered during the discussion
part

29. Open Conversation
• Is it easy to search for OER?
• Were the results of your searches satisfying?
Why? Why not?
• Was it easy to mix OERs? Which were the
challenges?
• Is searching the same when you are a student
and when you’re an educator? How are they
different?