 Good morning, and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar series where we recover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. The show will broadcast live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time, but if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show, and then it is posted to our website for you to watch at your convenience. And I'll show you at the end of today's show where our website is and where you can access all of our archives. We post their recording of the show. We record it and post it to the Nebraska Library Commission's YouTube channel so you can watch the show that way. And any document slides, the slides that we have here on the screen, we'll have it out. Is that a link you have there to your... Yes, it is. We will link to that afterwards so you'll have access to both the recording and the slides to view later. Excuse me, we do a mixture of things here on Encompass Live. Booker views, interviews, mini training sessions, demos of services and products, things that we think you might be interested in. Sometimes we do things that are very specific to Nebraska as we are the Nebraska Library Commission, for those of you who are joining us from out of state. Then we provide services to all types of libraries in the state. So we have things for public, academic, K-12, correction facilities, museums. You'll see anything and everything on our show. Our only real criteria, if you can even call it that, is it something to do with libraries? Something libraries are doing, something cool we want to show off that they're doing, something we think they should be doing. So you can find all sorts of things on there. As I said, we do do some things that are specific to Nebraska and to the Nebraska Library Commission. So we have Nebraska Library Commission staff that come on and do sessions with us sometimes. But we also bring guest speakers. And that's what we have this morning. Joining us today is Beth Cabish. Good morning, Beth. Good morning, Krista. And she is with our educational service units, specifically the Coordinated Council of Ours. We have multiple ESUs across the state. I'm not really sure how many total. Seventeen. Seventeen, okay. A lot, yeah. And she's the director of blended and distance learning there. And she's going to talk to us this morning about OER. What is it? Some of you might know, some of you might need to know. Find out. So I just handed over to you, Beth, and I've taken away and tell us all about it. Very good. Thanks, Krista, for that introduction. And good morning. It is very, very windy here. But hopefully our weather will, you know, not be the bomb cycle that we got a couple of weeks ago. We're coming in across the state. Yes. But today we're really going to talk about OER. And OER is not Outstanding Extraordinary Raw Materials, just saying. But so many people question, so what do you mean by OER? So today we're going to, I'm just going to review some of the information that I have and that I've been sharing across the state as well as some resources that you could use to do more research or find some of these OER types of resources as well. I would encourage you to go into this bitly now because in a couple slides we're going to ask you to just introduce yourself and share with me one of your answers to a question. But as Krista said, okay, come on, you can go to the next slide. There we go. I am the director of blended and distance learning for our ESU coordinating council. Because we have some people registered from outside of Nebraska, just want to share. Our ESU is an educational service unit. We are regional service centers providing resources for our K-12 public schools across the state. As you may assume, Nebraska is very rural, so we have many, many small districts. And those districts, I'm sorry, we got a new phone here and I don't even know how to change it. Sorry, oh my gosh. Anyway, there we go. Okay, so we have a lot of rural districts that do not have the resources for a number of things that an ESU can provide. And the coordinating council then really coordinates some statewide projects, which blended learning and distance learning are two of those statewide projects and therefore I am kind of the coordinator and the director of those. So again, I want to know who is here and if you were able to log into that bitly then and maybe Krista, I don't know if you wrote that down or anything. I'll go quite quickly back to it and maybe I can, if you could write that down and share it in the question piece so that everyone can see it again. So what I want you to do on the next slide here, which says add yourself, is to add your name and just your first name and last initial if you want and then maybe a quick answer to one of these questions. So one of your go-to resources or maybe what you have experience with OER or if you want to describe it in three words not using what the words for OER mean and then a last one maybe why you're you're here. So I have added my own here that my go-to resource is hippocampus.org. So if you are in the in the slide deck and in the edit oh you know what I said to view only I know that. Let me well you know here we go I'm going to reshare it so that you can edit that. So my apologies I thought I was being so smart. Here no problem. There we go and now if you reload or if you go back and refresh your browser then you should be able to access that. So I know that we have five people right Krista that were logged in nine right nine very good if you want to just go in and add your name real quick and get answer one of those questions that would be awesome and I'll go ahead and go back to that that slide. So again one of your go-to resource and not all four of these questions just pick one. Maybe some experience what you would describe OER as or why you're here. So I'll just give you a a minute or so to enter that. So should I add something for mine? Yes I would love that and I'm going to go out of presentation mode because I think that will allow me to see excellent very good. Wants to hear how people are using OER excellent. So everyone if you can go I will present and here is the the bit.ly right here bit.ly slash two and that's a capital P. 18 lowercase d uppercase d lowercase j. Yes when you're doing these bit.ly is the uppercase and lowercase does matter. Right it does case matters. Yes very good. So anyone's looking forward I've sent it in the chat too. Okay awesome. And the question let's see we'll do it here too. Go back and just check one more time. So everyone go ahead and go to that link and then go and you'll just go down to the slide. It's a fifth slide down there and you can type in. Well we'll go ahead and go on Krista. It doesn't look like maybe some people are having difficulty getting into Google or bit.ly. So we'll just go ahead and go on. I've got one here actually I'm going to see. Yay! Hi April. Hi David. Nope and there's another person type in there. I'm going to find out what it is. See her and Allison. Yay! She involves the chat and questions so. Okay good. Give us some thoughts about dealing and there's another one. So we want to hear more about open ed. We want to find out what it is. I'd like to know more and here to just learn. Excellent. Well hopefully we will be able to answer this. Allison said just getting started it looks like. Yeah exactly good. Well that was Marilyn from the library standpoint as opposed from the educator. Right right good. That's true because this is something that is mainly towards the actual teachers but yeah. Right so I was I think I have a pretty good idea where we're at. I feel that we're kind of learning and we want to learn not yet using perhaps so I think we're we're at a good level and then I also feel that what my goals were today should match up with your needs of those that are attending. So we really want to talk about this OER phenomenon or or go open phenomenon I guess. Be a little familiar with creative comments because it really has an impact with when we talk about open education resources and how we can access the items and then I just wanted to share a little bit about what Nebraska is doing in terms of our K-12 education space and that creating or curating or sharing those OER pieces. So go open or hashtag go open and and sometimes you hear people say what is gooping? Well it's go open and it was a initiative really from former President Obama in like 2016, 2015, 2016 to really allow for schools to consider going open or using open education resources. So after that initiative of go open then the Office of Ed Tech began working on some materials for schools to have access to and the go open districts that link and by the way this this link on this presentation goes to the Office of Ed Tech but there is a launch packet for districts that wanted to sign up to be go you know to be open or to use an open ed resource to have access to. So the Federal Department of Education really got involved and was the instigator if you will or the you know one that really was driving some of this discussion on hashtag go open and so go open really reflects or refers to this notion of using open education resources and here is a quick video and Krista we can this will work on it or should I capture it? It depends on how your audio is because sometimes the sound doesn't come through like when you're wearing a headset. Sure so let's just I'll just capture this video because you have the bit.ly you guys can access that video later on but it's really you know giving that talk and this is again K12 really focused on why a school or why a teacher should consider using open education resources. So I think it's like three some minutes long it's good and you can share that with other people but that's nice it does have in the video I just look at it in the slides it does have you can turn the closed captioning to see what it said too. Yeah it doesn't have a transcript I don't know but I think it's fine you know I think that you should be able everybody got into the slide deck so you should be able to access that video. So what is open education? The Hewlett Foundation talked about has this big huge long definition of what you know open education is it's materials and medium that are in the public domain that have open licenses that are no cost that you can remix basically and it is used to support our knowledge but really it's non-proprietary so even though I may have created it you could remix my my resource and then you could become the owner of your own new resource it depends on how we are our licensing the resource as to who really you know if you want to think about ownership and those kinds of things but I am if I create something that I want to share I'm giving it freely I'm not putting any cost on it and I'm giving certain permissions and we'll talk about those permissions it's always shareable so you would be able to take and to again remix it or revise it or use it as is if you wanted to modifiable and reusable so that's really the basis of what when we talk about OER in Nebraska K-12 educators we are really sharing this this type of statement but in terms of what could be considered open open resources really a big huge gamut you know it could be the entire course it could be sections of a course it could be a textbook video pieces you know software and I think we've heard of open software for years and years and years but it's just really a great you know a greater level or gamut of resources that we would be able to share and then to remix so when we think of OER and versions of OER we've really gone through maybe stages of what it looks like initially our you know one of our first things were kind of type textbooks and they just were all text and you know no interactives and no visuals to it and then it went to more of a hypertext so then we could link and we could make these hyperlinks so we could add some things and now we're really into that enhanced text so we're adding those videos in and again sticking with the images and the hyperlinking but every step of that that whole movement of open education has made enhancements and if you've you know Wikipedia is one of you know what we might think of as an open encyclopedia if you were on it years and years ago it was very you know very just text and now it's become more dynamic I guess you could say but things that you could access again includes courses whole courses and universities have been doing this for a number of years MIT has been sharing their coursework for years and years you know they just feel that some of their work is needs to be shared and they want others to see videos Khan Academy saw Khan has really grabbed that whole thought and concept behind you know open learning and taking it to that complete next level he even has courses and assessments and things like that added to his his collection of resources in Khan Academy again we talked about encyclopedias and some of the you know when we think of non-proprietary but some of the the proprietary encyclopedias have also considered opening up some of their their work to open education but those benefits are are really why I think we are moving toward that particular movement and it's because of the collaboration and the community behind learning or the community of learners behind this education so can we partner with others can can Krista develop something that I found that meets my needs and then I can go and enhance that and share it back with Krista so we can collaborate or work independently as partners and really build on a resource that's even better than just one of us could do again you know I'm able to share with you some of my knowledge and expertise the cost excuse me the cost is prime is a primary piece of purpose or reason why my educators or educational organizations are moving to to OER but I do want to share with you that when you think of the cost of the resource yeah the resource itself might be free but you still have to begin to implement and to determine how that will be implemented into your your organization and that's what has the cost behind it so you don't want to forget about the cost of implementation because that really impacts what you are doing so improvements independent learning and again that community engagement why schools tend to embrace this OER is because it really increases that equity so again as I talked about in Nebraska we have all these rural schools that may not have accessibility the same levels of accessibility that students in in our metropolitan cities do and so by utilizing an open education resource we could considerably increase that equity across our state or you know anywhere that students would have access to this information or resource one of our big things that we really are promoting is how how it's relevant so in the video it talks about textbooks you know purchase textbooks and how soon or how they become obsolete or their content is no longer relevant or doesn't fit into what what you're teaching in terms of maybe your state standards or whatever you're dealing with so we can keep that content relevant because we can always be changing and updating and revising and it's the teachers that are doing that so we are empowering and giving those teachers those resources and that's where the money becomes again you know an issue but we're trying to empower those teachers to to build this content I've included this is a slide from a friend of mine but I've included that SAMR model because when you think of implementing or integrating technology into your curriculum or into your learning that that low level which is substitution is very very easy to do and so you might think of using an OER an open resource as a textbook let's say or is your curriculum that really it could be considered a substitution for a regular textbook but what is it within that resource that you are using that makes that even more enhanced or how does technology become included in that resource that it was not in the actual physical textbook so we're always thinking about technology integration with these types of resources when we're sharing with our schools and our teachers so we've talked about you know open education is there's no fee required or you know textbook fee or textbook price on it but it doesn't always mean that it's open so if someone were to offer a resource but puts a a license on it that is that is restrictive that would not be open we would not be able to reuse it or revise it I guess we could reuse it but we not would not be able to revise it or remix it and then redistribute it if we were so open is really the free pieces plus the ability to retain reuse revise remix and redistribute so there is a difference between free resources and open education resources so again you know these are pieces that that the five r's that are always shared when we talk about open but more of a define or a definition with each of those and I think they're you know you can read that and it describes those well enough so before I get into this I just wanted to see if there is any questions Krista are we doing okay so far oops uh yeah uh doesn't anybody have any questions um about uh what Beth already talked about about what we know so far about how we are or about creative commons I know that is something that's um it seems to come in ways that people are always talking about creative commons and things like that and then um everybody seems to know about it for a while I guess and for presentations about hey don't forget this is something you can do and it's a very good thing to make everything you do I mean we have our show here so everything that we post for the commission onto our youtube account is um creative commons licensed as well for people to use if they want to um for non non-commercial purposes since we're you know agency here as well but if anybody does have any questions or comments or thoughts about what you've done or anything go ahead and type into the questions section of your go-to webinar interface or if you want to use a microphone just say please unmute me and um you can ask your question or make your comment that way but nothing has come in at the moment okay excellent so think of something and we'll grab it as you do right perfect so again in order to achieve those five Rs then you need some kind of licensing even even though we say that these resources are open and so anybody could use it it really still has a license on it and and you would want if you were to create something you would want to put a license on it so that others could use it in the way that you would define and we do that through our creative commons licensing and um and it also saves you I've had this as something I think it's helpful that if you put that on there have that notice or whatever the symbols on it they don't have to ask you it saves both time on both of your sides if you've created this thing you've decided I want it to be able to be used in this way someone who comes across it doesn't have to figure out how to reach out to you and then ask you a question am I allowed to what can I do what can't I do you've already given them that info proactively and um saves everybody time that's why I really like I'm always looking for the symbols myself on things right exactly so creative commons licensing then has different levels and so you see these levels of way open to you know somewhat restricted and we'll talk about those and and basically we're going to go through what Nebraska has determined what they want to use Nebraska K-12 for any of the resources that they are creating and curating but the four key pieces is attribution so are you going to you know are you going to require attribution and by the way I just when I share with teachers and students I always even if it's not required I think it's always best practice and you know for me too because I would want to know where I got that so but are they requiring attribution is this for no commercial so so or non-commercial so in other words any you know nonprofit educational institution could use this and you know that but you can't charge for it basically and we see a lot of teachers pay teachers so if you would define something that is creative commons licensing with non-commercial they can post it on teachers pay teachers it just has to be free it can't be for a value no derivatives again you know I want you to use this exactly as it's created I don't want you to make any changes and there are a few things that would be appropriate for no derivatives and I've created some of those myself but that does that defeats our whole purpose of you know remixing and and read this we can redistribute but we can't remix if we put no derivatives and then finally the share like is that if you're going to remix and redistribute this it has to has the same kind of licensing that I granted on my original material so those are the four key things that we are using and that Creative Commons bases their licensing on and in Nebraska again our recommendation is to to say that you know we would want you to license this CC buy which means that yes please please say who you know give that attribution this is non-commercial this is for educational resources and we don't want anyone to make any profit off of this and if you do remix and redistribute to please use the same licensing that is our recommendation but we've also had a secondary that would say no derivatives so those are the two basic licenses that when we were when we're working with our Nebraska educators that we are promoting anyone could actually put any kind of licensing that you want on there it depends on your situation but this is what we are promoting and again we're promoting this for teachers that are in school districts and I'm not sure if you're calm if you have and maybe in a library it would be the same that if you are under contract with an organization that organization really owns the rights to the anything that you create that is to be used for your your contract for your work so if a teacher was to create resource um say a module for um you know for teaching about basket weaving and they wanted to share it they could share it but that administrator of that building or district would need to approve that they could share it because it really does belong to that district that school district that they are contract with so we also at the same time uh have a policy for those schools that allow the teachers to create these resources and to share them as long as they're putting this kind of licensing on those uh you know those modules or whatever they're creating that's kind of complicated I know and and if you have other questions be sure to ask those and I could give more details on that but I just wanted to share with you these are the two licenses in that we're recommending uh when we do our our work um so again this is our recommended let's uh other people take it and tweak it and build upon it non-commercially as long as they give credit to you or to whoever created it and that it is shared under the same exact terms or no derivatives which is um allowing others to download and share it with others but and they have to give you credit but they cannot make any changes on that so with that we do have some challenges you know one of our biggest challenges is you know teachers and and this is such an interesting slide to me that our teachers are spending seven hours a week looking for resources to use to supplement their content or their curriculum they're using five hours a week to creating their own so they're you know in my opinion I was a classroom teacher I would think I you know I need something to just kind of spark me so I'm out there trying to find something to spark me I might go find it and then I will either make my own or tweak that but where are they where are the teachers finding where are they going for that seven hours and it is determined that they're going 97% to google which you know is wide open we don't know if they're using those strategies about making sure that the content is accurate and appropriate and you know reliable I would hope so and I would make that assumption they're also going to Pinterest which I feel would be the same thing because I didn't get anyone can post onto there 79% are going to teachers pay teachers but we have 39% that are going to engage New York which is a vetted open education resource collection so what this slide tells me is again that we're spending a long a lot of time trying to find those supplementary materials and what it tells me is because we don't have that place or that knowledge about open education resources that's why we're spending seven hours if we were to be able to train or to suggest strongly recommend our teachers to go to places like Engage New York my expectation is that those hours of searching would be less and they could then start to remix and create those resources that are within you know that are appropriate for their curriculum yeah it seems like a lot of this may be education realizing that there are as you described the curated places rather than just they might not spend that might not take them seven hours if they went to the more specific the teachers pay teachers or Engage New York places rather than just I'm going to put in a big fishing net and see what I can hopefully find thing it might be able to save them some time if they just knew that this was yeah the places are the outcome yeah and I think that's all about how our libraries work together is you know because our patrons come in and say you know oh my gosh I've spent seven hours looking for this where do I go and so as our librarians become you know more experienced in this as well we can then direct and guide them I think it's all about educating our users and educating those that are in need of of these open education resources so I thought this was so appropriate hey Mrs. Johnson what are we doing in our technology today well I'll be ready in just a few minutes I'm still I'm still looking for that great activity on the internet right so I just kind of I thought that was you know quite appropriate for that that conversation but the other piece that our our department of education is also noticing is that so when our teachers are our people that are looking for those those resources in Google and Pinterest they might be finding some some type of piece that fits their curriculum but yet it may not be highly aligned or it is low you know that that the alignment to our standards is pretty low and as you go through that you'll see you know teachers pay teachers but other OER repositories we find that when we have a repository that can align to our standards and we can vet or we can evaluate those materials obviously we have a better resource that we can use in our classroom or with our patrons that meets their needs and is high quality so those are the kind of the key things why we're using this open education concept within Nebraska you know as far as classrooms all of this really fits in with our our personalized learning as as on the introduction you know i'm the director of blended learning for the ESU coordinating council so i'm trying to promote how teachers and classrooms can be utilizing technology and meeting students needs by personalizing their instruction to meet them and so open education also fits well within that concept of of those strategies those classroom strategies but when you think of that digital versus digitized and that goes back to that SAMR model again OER could just be that replacement for the textbook and that's really not moving us into a higher level or a deeper level of what we want to concentrate or achieve so we really want to get to that digital side so that we can reflect you know we can make some comparisons we can create you know we've heard of the foresees and creativity within that foresees that and and one of the pieces of the creativity is is that retention of the the content and the knowledge also being able to share and teach others because our you know our researchers say that when you teach others you're really learning that content in a deeper and a higher level and to be able to make revisions so we want to get to that part where it's digital and not digitized but how do we do that so where do we get these types of resources and where we how do we go about finding them there are massive or you know a very large number of open ed repositories and there's actually more and more coming out all the time the learning accelerator which I I did not add to this and when we're done today I'll go back and add their repository in there also you know is creating a open ed resource repository so so it's it's it's growing it's expanding all the time and it's just about where to go and where to find it this is a list that I got from the the CCC OER organization that has open ed repository listed right here many of these are really for higher ed but you'll see Kriki and Guru are for the K-12 areas but there's some more resources or places to go to start those types of searches but what Nebraska is doing is working with OER Commons and OER Commons is I'm going to say fueled by ISCME ISKME and they are an organization that have been around for a number of years and they and OERcommons.org has an expansive resource of these open types of resources that are both K-12 and higher ed and public audiences why we went with OER Commons was that it was really cost-effective for us to do it was fairly easy to use we were able to search on other resources and put them into a place that our Nebraska teachers could access anyone can get an account and the LTI integration was also important for us but I wanted to take you here because this is our link to our hub and just to give you a brief review of what Nebraska has put together which is very similar to many many many states are going and using this particular repository so what we have in ours are Nebraska instructional materials so these are K-12 materials that have been evaluated or vetted by those K-12 teachers and that have been endorsed by our Department of Education and then these are collections from other resources or other organizations within OER Commons that we have added to our hub or our Nebraska link for OER Commons and here remember we talked about Engage New York and then also we have these working groups so I think I mentioned earlier that open education is really about that community of learning so the community of learning happens in these groups within our Nebraska OER Commons hub so we've just started working on this we we barely in a year and just starting to build resources around you know the open concept that can be shared and remixed with classroom teachers so Nebraska is just getting started other states have been doing this for a longer period of time but many of us in that K-12 arena are kind of in those beginning stages but this is just you know we we looked at other organizations and this one really just fit us the best as far as what our needs were and why we wanted to use that but one of the things that having this hub gives us access to is all of the OER Commons resource so if I wanted to look for a resource or some module or a course it wouldn't really matter within all of OER Commons I would come up here to this yellow magnifying glass and I could do a search but if I wanted to search for something that is strictly in Nebraska's vetted or evaluated list then I could come down here obviously I've done some searching before in the blended learning area and I could then it would return to me any of those resources that have these kinds of tags so these are things that we started to build and have access to within our our Nebraska hub so let's see here I just wanted to share with you that you know once you put something into a repository such as OER Commons Hub then and you give it the licensing that says that you can share it that you can redistribute it that you can remix it all of those kinds of things then you know this is is what you're going to be able to do you can share a link so if I had this this slide deck today I could post that because it was I could license it creative commons which Krista said all of the our webinars are I could share that link I could print out any handouts if that's what I wanted to do I could copy and paste any of these types of resources and I could integrate it into my learning management system or I could publish it in some kind of option as long as I was not looking for any you know residual value for that so if like for instance Engage New York you can make those published texts you can have your printer print off books for your students you just can't resell them or do any of those things with them so here again are some resources from Iowa I've done this presentation with a colleague from Iowa and Pennsylvania who are also getting started with the OER Commons hub and at the same time and so he had some resources that I just wanted to share with you but is there anything that we could review or go over again or have further detailed questions any of that kind of peace all right um let's see is anybody have any questions anything you want more information about anything you have any ideas about that was my timer so I was trying to time myself and I did pretty good for a 45 I wanted to time about 45 minutes so we could have some time for questions yeah absolutely so does anybody have any questions um please type into the questions section anything you want to know more about um as what we said we could probably look back on those slides to see what people wanted to know um yeah great yeah go ahead and share your screen again and bring it up um I'm trying to get mine there we go la la la no if I did that right I don't think I did that right so okay here let me I'll make you a presenter again yeah make me a presenter again please there we go all right uh all right so let's go back sorry you hope I hope you won't get too ill yeah so anybody have anything more you wanted to know it looks like a lot of people did want to find out what it was learn more about it um is there anything that confirmed that you're wondering about let us know um after the library standpoint you know I didn't really speak much about how would you use OER from the library standpoint um I guess my thought is you know in in libraries that I'm involved with you know they have programs they have courses or you know those could all be shared you know through an open ed resource also and could be posted on something such as OER commons or on their website um all those kinds of things as long as you license it and maybe it's uh um you know a course within a learning management system that your library has and you would and it would be open for anyone to take that course that you could um you could say that this course is open between you know first quarter only and so you have that someone facilitating the learning uh or so forth but all of it is about you know open not um not content that is purchased because we want to be able to modify it to fit our needs uh so and does have a question about libraries um how do you promote OER in a public library right because you know we're really talking about in a public library we're talking about those resources for patrons to come in and review that we've purchased right and so now we're talking about okay these are open resources that kind of is against or you know is the you know the opposite of what we're trying to do but I think that when you know when our patrons are looking for that that piece of information that's that's current and sometimes our print materials may not be current but we also then as a library do subscribe to our our digital materials or our digital resources and databases and so forth where that would be current kinds of information but what we're what open education is is really taking um it could take that same content but then figuring out how to learn from that so you could have a course on your library so it could be an open education course on um moving or learning about your library because library yeah I'm fairly confident that all of us as patrons don't know about all of the services I mean yeah we could look at the flyers that we make about the services but yet I am not you know versed in all of the services of the public library that I belong to so if I wanted to learn more about that because I needed to you know because I have a desire to learn how to play a instrument so you know here could be this course around playing that instrument for instance so I could create this course and share it with with the public library on how to learn how to play a button accordion and it would be shared you know with everyone and others could take from it and grab it and you know remix from it so it's all about the education and the learning so that's how but I could pull in some resources from my library it's just that those pieces are not the open you know those pieces if I were to pull in a database resource the person that's using that course also has to be a member of that library because they would have access to that database but if they were not if I were to remix it and and share it with someone from Iowa then that becomes the issue of okay you know that digital learning or that digital subscription resources isn't available so yeah yeah so we're not trying to um you know it's it's just about how do you build or how do you create those modules or whatever and even those images that we saw someone might be a creator of cartoons and they just want to share their work right and they don't they don't need to have any kind of financial receipt they just want to share their work and so that work then could be involved and included in any of the pieces of of learning that we want to put together and mix for others but yeah it's it's a fuzzy place yeah and that's good because we can develop it how we want how we need to maybe exactly exactly we make some play with it and everything yeah um so thank you for that yes um another question um this person is a high school librarian and wants to know where would you recommend I go from here um basically just getting started and you know what would be like first steps maybe so I think going to um OER commons if they're in Nebraska um you can go to that link and you can join our our introductory group and that has some resources on how to manipulate through the OER commons um also within those that um list on that graphic again I apologize for uh these are great places to to also begin to find those resources instead of doing the google and the Pinterest you can look for here um as far as you know generating a learning module OER commons has that ability it's called open author and so you can just create an account within open OER commons and you can create a resource right there um or you can create it in google and then um in open author you can bring it over and and it's a seamless kind of marriage I guess so the the google information will come over into the OER commons um platform and you could be able to share that way if you're trying to create something um you know curating is really what we're trying to promote because um I don't know with me personally I don't think I have the greatest ideas and and it's it's a struggle to start from scratch so I'm always trying to find where it is I can go to begin with and when I use these resources these are all open resources I can pull them into my my google doc which I would there later take into um OER commons so um I think that looking at it you know trying to find I would start you know with okay so I want to create a module or I want to create a lesson and I want to be able to share that lesson so I'm going to create this lesson in google I'm going to go find some resources that I want to use out here using Khan Academy or or and then on this next page is a you know hippocampus or guru or curriculae or or flex you know wherever you want to go to find some content I would pull that into google I'd probably end up then going into OER commons and sharing it that way so I'm I'm curating all of these pieces and creating it and then sharing it um or the other option is to create an account in OER commons and go search through that database find something that makes sense and then I probably remix it and use that and if you're not those are the two ways I with you yeah for those of you who aren't um in Nebraska as Beth said we have our own Nebraska one um maybe your state has something similar to what we're doing that is specific for your educators uh so search and see if you have your ESUs or Department of Education or wherever in your state does I would potentially be in charge or something like this and see if there is something specific to your state and I think that was something that you did mention earlier too that I wanted to um bring up remind of that having the right having your lessons and your curriculum meet the right criteria for where you are um you know there are a lot of these open ones are just anything out there that you can use sure but then you've got to look at if you are trying to meet some sort of standards locally make sure you're doing that at the same time and by using something that's already um put out by your state like our Nebraska one is you know you're getting things that already match up with that exactly so in the OER commons hub there is a place there's a place for hubs and I just looked at all the hubs so here um you'll see Maryland Minnesota so if you might be able to find a hub that's in your state and then join that hub and then there will be a line to your standards or you know appropriate for your state all right thank you for that yeah yeah right we're almost hitting 11 o'clock here does anybody have any other last-minute desperate questions you need to ask before we wrap things up type it into question section um thank you very much Beth for being here and uh telling us all about this I know this is OER is a big buzzword out there and it definitely lots of people obviously you saw from their comments on the slide many people still need to know what exactly is it what am I supposed to do with it how do I use it what can it do for me um right I'm glad that we finally got this down and out there for them all yeah good good so it'll be great to hear about anyone that's you know uh experiencing you know learning through an open ed resource um on your twitter handle yeah yeah definitely share it to to bet if you saw when I shared this out onto twitter um and facebook about today's show I did link to um best twitter there so you and and to our educational um service units uh council yeah they have a twitter yeah share everything everywhere yeah all right so I think we will wrap it up this morning then thank you very much Beth as they said thank you everyone for being here with this morning uh with us this morning um the show um is being recorded and will be on our encompass live web page and popping over here to that um here's our upcoming shows for the next couple months and right underneath there's a link for our archives today you shall be at the top of the list here um and it will have a link as I said to the um actual recording on um our youtube channel and then a link too as they're here at the slides that link that bit that was in the slides i'm just gonna link right to that so you'll have access to this um afterwards um for the slides when it is ready probably by the end of the day today i'll send an email out to all of you who attended today and everyone who was registered to let you know um that is ready there i'll also post to our um very social media um we have a facebook page here for encompass 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everything has a date on it letting you when it was originally letting you know when it was originally broadcast so take that into consideration you may find some things where these services doesn't exist anymore uh URLs may be broken things may have changed to a certain service our program or something so just you know pay attention to the original date when you do watch any of our archives um but we are librarians this is what we do we save things and archives are not there so we'll always have the whole full history there for you just you know pay attention when you're looking at it so um that'll be for today's show um and Beth will actually be back with us in two weeks um so hold this line up for her next show which is the second one here that on April 24th um about virtual field trips with zoom um so if you're interested in learning how to view that um that's really fun I've I've you've seen some of them and done some of them before uh so definitely sign up for that one and next week show actually be something about the national rural transit assistance program or resource library um this is a great resource and especially for people there is like us who are rural in Nebraska in the middle of the country and especially with all of the flooding and damage and devastation we've had lately this is gonna be a great resource for people to find more information they've got webinars and guides and all sorts of things so um definitely sign up and join us next week if you're interested in learning more about that library very timely yes it was and it was we scheduled this long before any of this these crazy bombs like started happening um just very coincidentally we got a good timing on there so definitely sign up for that and there were other shows so thank you everyone for attending thank you beth and hopefully we'll see you next time on Encompass Live bye bye see you bye