 All right, so let me... All right, there we go. All right, so you can think of... I have a few sayings and one of them is give a gift and not a burden, right? And that's often doesn't happen with technology, right? So, oh, here's something new when you go, oh my goodness, I got to spend all this time learning it now, right? Well, what I'm hopefully going to just show you here a little bit about, what are the resources that we have within Merlot that can help you really look at alternative resources for teaching your classes? And I'll also say is we're not about telling you what to use, we're about giving you more choices, so you can decide what would be best for your student. Looks like Jerry Froze will be back in a second, but while we're waiting for him to come back, Amanda, I put a link in... Right, so looking at a library really, it really just expands... Am I back? I'm back, okay. Anyway, sorry, Jerry, I just wanted to say I'm putting links into the chat and Amanda, I did a little search already in Merlot and I may have found something you can use and Paul, I'm working on some stuff for you too, okay? All right, so let me share screen here and I'll be thinking of me like your tour guide and if you want to... If there's anything that a gift that you would like, just let me know and we can do a search. So what I'll start off with is just a little bit of overview of what we have in Merlot here. So here's the homepage merlot.org and we have a Google search thing, type in your keyword, look at how that works. We also have some advanced search tools. One of them is if you have a textbook that you're using right now, you can type in the ISBN and then Merlot will find all the free and open educational materials connected with that textbook, right? Here's just some background. We have, as I said, almost 100,000 materials, almost 200,000 people, 4,500 institutions are really part of the Merlot community where people are participating in and as a library in the last 30 days, over 825 materials have been contributed into this and I'm going to show you a little bit later on. We have an English community, an academic discipline where it just highlights things for you, Amanda, and then we have academic support. I can explain a little bit about what that is, tools to help you find stuff and if you want to build open education resources, let's say you find a piece of this and a piece of that of whether it's fractions in construction, fractions in manufacturing. I'm just making something up real quick, Paul, for example, here, and you want to put them together in a particular way. Merlot has a tool that can allow you to build your own website easily as well as for free within Merlot. These are some of the things that we have here and I'm going to begin with a library as thinking about, let me just go explore and browse the digital stacks of the library. What you can do right up in the top left-hand corner, there's browse and there's lots of things you can browse, but right now let's just start off with materials by looking at what's all the stuff and how is it organized within Merlot. What we can look at here when I hit browse and then when I focus on we organize by disciplines and let me make this just a little bit bigger too, so a little easier to see. We have academic support, arts, business, education, humanities, math and stat, and you can see the number of materials that we have in each of these areas, lot in science and technology, social science, workforce development. Let's begin with how about Amanda, I'll just start off with you with you're in the humanities, English, so I could just click on the and so I look at these as what I'm doing is I'm going into a physical library and then I'm going to go into the stacks and say okay the first floor has the humanities stuff on it right and then as I look down here and here are all the topic areas in the humanities that we have, so American studies, oh there's English, history, women, gender studies, world languages, stuff like that. Okay so then I can say okay let's and we have comparative literature and classics and English so I say well let me start off with English so I can click on this and now you can see we've gone from a hundred thousand now here's two thousand one hundred and seventy materials just focused in on English and then I can get into literature right so I walk to the first floor then I go to the first row and now I'm going to beginning to look at the shelves within the library so now I'm in literature and here's drama, poetry, prose fiction, prose nonfiction all right so so Amanda can you see how you know we're kind of walking through the library to begin to find these type of things? Yeah okay and then the next thing but before we narrow down any further on particular topic areas what I'm also looking on the left hand side is what are all the types of materials that are available in this area right and you know one of the things you can say oh look there's 235 open textbooks here's some presentations that we have here's some reference materials oh here's some tutorials so a lot of these are little different things different types of materials that you can use in teaching and learning so you know for example a tutorial could be something and I click on that and it that might be a kind of something you can if you want to flip your classroom a little bit and have your students do work independent you know at home they can then just follow through on a undoing a tutorial that that might be interesting and so and I'm just I'll just pick something here okay you know I didn't know what what you were what your interest areas are so I could just click on this to see what's here and so here's a little description of um ages of English timeline um and uh and these are the topic areas I'll just show you in Merlot we have editorial boards for example there's an English editorial board that is peer reviewed it we'd also let users who are Merlot members and it's free to join to my comments and I'll show a little bit here bookmark collections I can talk about that too as well it's basically an ability for you to create your own digital bookshelf for yourself um and and now one of the things about Merlot is it's actually like a library catalog and and the stacks are where websites all around the world so that's by going to the material you're basically now going to a vbc website and here's the resources about you know the you know british timeline and here's some information about so so what Merlot helps you do and and here's a view a nonflash version of it stuff like that so you know it helps you find all that stuff that's out there in the world that have been identified by educators as being something useful and one of the things that you can see this was created by the bbc and susan fray is a member of Merlot and she kind of added it to the Merlot collection so and and so we can say oh who's susan right and okay oh she's a coordinator strategic initiatives in the library um she looks like she's at indiana state so just to give you a sample of so that how the stuff in here gets created in in our library it's members of the of the education community who who have found stuff and said ah let me make it easier for other people to find okay and if you like what susan found he created there added there well she's submitted 2039 other materials she's authored something she's written comments and she has bookmark collection so just to again what i'm trying to give you a sense of is Merlot as a community of educators who are working together to share the resources and you too when you create things or if you found things that you want to share you can also add them to as well all right so if i bookmark something or you know mark it in some way to save it am i able to like share that list of what i have saved with colleagues in my department people who might teach this course after me or do i have to then put it into that website tool you showed at the very beginning no um and and so that's what the bookmark collection lets you do and here i'll click on that since you asked the question so so let me just go go back for a second so so here's the ages of english timeline and bookmark collection says 11 people have taken this resource and in a sense put it on their personal bookmark shelf a digital shelf within Merlot so so when i click on this i can see well what did you know what are are these things that people put together right and so here's um here's the the different collections that that that are around here and and you want to just pick one um british history how about that i'll just is that okay yep that's fine okay so so here so what when we look at this um Amanda um didn't score okay um put together 20 materials that related to um british literature and blish materials okay so here's the ages of english timeline right so she's created this collection of resources and guess what right at the top here that url that's a stable url so after Amanda you know you you you might want to create your own you know bookshelf bookmark collection right then you can just pop that url right into your canvas course and say students oh here's my british stuff or here's my poetry things or here's my um my uh non-fiction prose material so so merlot is a way for you to curate your own material and then make it easy access for your students to link to it okay was that helpful there Amanda yes okay now one of the things you could say well who's this other Amanda and let's click on it and she's a librarian and so she's organized this stuff right and where is she she's oh she's at cal state fresno all right um so so here's so she's organized it and you might say you know i have i teach british history and and and literature so maybe this might be useful um instead of me going finding the 20 things see this little icon over here it looks like you know two sheets of paper what i can do is i can just click on that button and it will copy Amanda's collection of materials and connected with my profile or who i am in merlot so it's like sharing playlists of music now we're sharing playlists of instructional materials okay no it's not only you among your colleagues that you can do Amanda in in the course where they can say oh Amanda's organized this stuff great you know and you're a full-time faculty you know you just hire an adjunct faculty and they say oh what am i going to do you they can say go to merlot become a member it's all free to do click on your button and now i've just given you a copy of all the materials that i found in merlot that you can then use when you're teaching okay so so so these are again tools that we can help you find things help you organize things for you in a very easy way all right and um uh and then share it as well and and if you want to you know for example you know if you want to create your own bookmark collection it's really simple you just click on the link and you can create a bookmark collection and i got a bunch of them and i said do i want to add it to one that i already have so you can see you know i've created a bunch of things or i can just say you know no i think i'm going to want to create a new one so why then i just kick create a new bookmark collection i say you know uh jerry's uh brit lit and i can say you know whatever that might be blah blah blah blah and then i can create this it's now putting the timeline of english literature and it's added to my bookmark jerry's brit lit okay so hopefully you can see how easy it is um to create these um curated collections and then share it with your students or with your other colleagues okay all right was that was that helpful amanda okay great right now other things that that we also have in merlot and and paul i haven't forgotten about you all the things that i'm describing we can go into math and do all the same thing too um and i'll get over to math in in a minute here the other thing what merlot automatically does as well is to say oh i i found ages of english timeline that's one thing but what about is there other stuff out there and um and the other thing this is like the amazon tool you know people who bought this shirt also like buy or also bought these things right so this is people who looked at this material also looked at a guide to grammar and writing or the evolution of language or uh fun uh uh i should i'm blanking on the uh sorry jerry i lost you nope sorry all right so so just see us so here as you can say oh you know other people and look at this and oh let me look at you know grammar and writing and then i can take a peek oh yes that's right i'm going away and then here's guide to grammar and writing and i can say what about sentence and word structure and i want to know about adverbs all right so here's all these resources that that then you can um bring to your students you can see this material was bookmarked 262 times so what you can think this is like a citation index a lot of people are using it and so that might be worth looking at it also has won a merlot classics award too as well all right so so the the materials that we produce in merlot not only helps you find one of the things but also what of other people have found useful um in uh um in this um in the collection as well all right all right and and and what we just looked at there was just tutorials right so if i want to go back oh let me i remember there being a lot of open free textbooks i can click on that and now here's all the free and open textbooks right and then i might say oh let me just look for the drama ones beginners guide to shakespeare english literature right so here are different resources that are available for you to look at here okay so hopefully you can begin to say you know from the 100 000 materials that i can actually um narrow down to a smaller set and i can begin to evaluate all right so before i go into anything new um the next part of burlo's uh services um uh paul or amanda any questions that you have about how merlot is works i yeah i saw the those links on like how to create a bookmark collection um would you mind just going through how you do that no problem at all okay and and let's go um um let's let's go into math okay let's all right and so here um again i'm browsing and so i go math and stat i can click on this and then um let's say i i want to focus in on mathematics right and then here are all the um different topic areas that we have in math and so how about i'll do um general and liberal arts math how does that sound was that okay paul or or applied math no no probably not a probably not applied math uh do go ahead do that that's another class i teach uh the liberal math or yeah either one okay all right up here i'll just pick i'll pick the general yeah that's fine because it's um there are more items here so so here um and notice um let me so so here's now all the areas in so consumer mathematics history and math so you can see how we go into recreational math so let's say you want to do or i want to do consumer math stuff right and so here's our the set of materials and you know here's an online course there's quizzes and there's simulations and tutorials right so this gives you again sense this sense of activity and so i might say let me just look at you know uh the simulations can help people engage in certain activities so here's adding apples oranges and pears right and and here i can go to uh and and now to show you how to create your own bookmark collection so here's the go to the material where you can go look at that and here's the link right here it says bookmark add so you can bookmark this or you can add it to a a bigger thing that's called a course portfolio but the key is you just click on on that link and um and then you know i i have a bunch of bookmark collections here but what what you can do then is say oh i want to create a new one uh this is going to be for you know um liberal arts math and then i can just click on that put your title okay you know live a math and and however you want to describe it and then you can say this is you know i might be teaching math you know 101 class uh blah blah blah right so so so you then can put all the descriptions you can label things and make it your own um and then you can create create it so now it's creating um a digital bookshelf in merlot that's yours and and then it's added this one material to it now and and if i went to went to my profile so you can see all right here's the bookmark collection right math 101 class remember that i just created just now right okay yeah all right so so there there it is all right so and and then that that url okay um that i had for the bookmark collection would have um here i'll just go go back here and here's my bookmark collection this url right here at the top that's where you can stick it in your canvas course and have your students here uh for you know chapter for the chapter one we want to cover here are some of the assignments or resources i'd like you to use okay all right hey let me ask you one more question here um so my uh what i'm i'm i'm kind of specifically working on is um this this our technical math course we have um we're we're kind of teaching it like kind of like a physics class like it has a has a two credit part of it that's that's like a kind of a traditional math course and we have a textbook actually we're using for that a Pearson textbook but then then we have a lab we call it a lab and it meets twice a week for like an hour and 50 minutes and in that lab we do um we do like a hands-on kind of application of the math and and uh so we're so what i'm really looking for is uh kind of uh lab applied math activities uh or um uh lab uh or even projects like many projects or something but anyway you know really where they apply the math do something hands on they were maybe working small teams and it's like an activity that takes it can take the whole class period just one activity uh maybe that's already designed um and or and it could take even two class periods so um specifically that's what i'm looking for so i'm not really looking for textbooks career technical math but i'm looking for uh maybe activities like that sets of lab activities like that of applied math activities so i don't know if you could help me on if you could help me find those that's that's what i'm i'm mainly going to focus on in my search so okay so yeah so i think what you want are simulations it's called okay simulations right right okay yep yep because because and i'll show you a few things um too is we also have i'll show you our uh our virtual labs um of course too uh we have a whole portal on on virtual labs and we have stuff in math okay so we have that too all right so here is um and and i just uh you know this is the topic area is general and liberal arts math so so here's the you know 53 materials that are simulations and so so this is um you know a drawing program that transforms into symmetrical you know and it probably has some um you know you know information about how it translates into math and here and one of the things that you can look at is you know what did other people say about it and things along those lines people right make comments around it um and uh so here's sally here a student i spent 30 minutes exploring this creative the interactive side um on escher the artist what a fantastic way to show the relationship between math geometry and art right okay so so this is so by choosing simulations i think is where you're going to get the kind of stuff poll that that that that you're looking for um the other thing i'll i'll show you too is um well yeah let me kind of do two things first i'll show you in the in this community side a lot of times and we're low it's a big library of all different stuff and if you only want to focus on on your things um we've created we have editorial boards that are that curate their own collection so um amanda we have english here okay so i'll just hit this one and so here is um welcome to the english portal you're invited to contribute they showcase they say here's some you know the best of the best type of stuff you can get right at the the language and literature type things what's new that was just added who are new people who just joined in english we have you know links to professional organizations journals and we have twitter feeds and google alerts too as well just kind of things that help you uh keep abreast of what's going on in your discipline we're trying to make that convenient there for you okay so so we have uh in english and then we also have math oh i just there in mathematics so so amanda you have english one and and here paul um here's the one in math and um you know again the same type of thing type of resources available so those are your academic discipline communities and what i'm getting to is your we also have we call them our academic support communities so some things like faculty development or ict literacy or mobile learning or uh pedagogical strategies or and here where i'm getting to paul is our virtual labs because virtual labs go across a lot of disciplines and so here's a whole portal just around kind of virtual labs and we have stuff biology chemistry physics and oh here's some math stuff okay so um we have fed labs this is out of the university of colorado great exciting things that they have and and these are other math tools um that are available as well um and and in the so here's they have 42 simulations of math so hopefully you know paul have have you seen any of these from the fed collection i don't i don't think so i don't know okay so i'll just say um it is it's a really cool website got so if you want to look at probability um and and i'm just pulling that this one up as as um you know example so you know what people can do is uh i want to you know uh drop them all at the same time right and um and and here is i've actually never used this so you know i'm making this up as i'm going and so now here's okay what happens if you drop all of them all at once and then you you know you're going to see a normal distribution emerge over time on this right so so this could be something and then you can say oh let's let's look at this and what happens if i you know if i do this again right i want to restart you know am i going to get you know the same distribution all the time or is there a randomness that that's going to occur and then you know if you wanted to they can have them count up how many balls are in each one of the columns and how does it change over time and blah blah blah like that so is this kind of getting closer to what you're looking for paul yeah yeah that's helpful thank you all right so so that so that's just the uh you know a probability one and and if you want to find you know other ones you know in in all of math you know once you find one then you can look at a lot of other these are all the ones in math ratio proportion number line da da da and all these are really it's a lot of fun um they they do some fun things then and the one i'll i'll highlight um if you want to engage people um in understanding projectile motion right just so you know you fight a cannon and you can decide um what do you want to what do you want to shoot out of the cannon you know a pumpkin a piano a car so you can have a little fun right you want to change the air resistance um you know what are all the things you want and then do you want to change you know the angle and then go ahead and initial speed i want to speed it up and then boom i want to shoot the car right so they you know and they say oh how do i help you know get get to my target oh let me try again oh it's a little closer right so is this helpful again paul just to show you the type of animations that merlot helps you find easily yeah yeah yeah those animations yeah like as a teaching tool right and um yeah and i was also well um yeah i was also trying to find like um just also some activities they could do like work on a kind of a something in a group you know where they have to use the math to maybe solve some kind of a problem or something too like i guess kind of do they have like a lesson plan like categories like less activities that are lesson plans like where they where they um um you know they outline okay first five minutes you do this next 15 minutes do this uh work on groups on this and then maybe at the end to ask questions and you know do they have things like that like more like sets of lesson plans i guess is what i'm asking for for like an activity that could take the entire class yep so what would that be stuff like that would that yep so so in merlot we have materials and then you can find people learning exercises is kind of like lesson plans okay okay all right then you have you know the bookmark collections right so let's just hit let's say i want to look at learning exercises and and you can see here learning exercises in all of merlot we only have 1600 of them right and so there's not as many of those we have 93 of them in in math and so understanding measurement right and i'm just gonna pick one here for a second okay i you know again no idea so here's um here's a learning exercise um they're giving you resources who the audience is any technical notes you can see here's the learning on the right hand side learning objectives the requirements you know gives you you know how do you make some assessment so it gives you just some um you know again i just pulled this up as it uses the visualization toolkit and it's telling you how to use it okay so i i think on this one you're probably going to want to just just look at um you know here's a learning exercise for particular um uh you know activities of and all cost of recycling and i'm just um i'm exploring here with you too at the same time so let's see what what we have here just here's the exercise display blah blah blah yes yeah jerry i just wanted to mention that um i put a link in the chat for a whole collection of lesson plans i'll see how many are there in merlot there are 45 of them but uh paul i think you're going to find that some of those are not going to be applicable but some probably will because it's developmentally speaking so um you'll you'll kind of have to pick and choose but they'll there will be at least some nice formatting there that you can play around with and take a look and see what other people are are doing around some of the topic areas that you like okay all right now thank you yeah thanks and and this is going to be both for amanda and for and for paul um in part paul you're not you're saying you know i i don't need the content but what i need is really the educational practice or the pedagogy of how am i going to teach with these things right and um and so merlot has uh a a portal just focused on we call it's called open educational practices and and the way we've captured these are with faculty um creating e portfolios that describe how they're teaching the course okay and so and what what i'm going to do here is maybe i'll start off with here's something how can i redesign the course with with technology and it sounds like you know you have a lab course and now here is here are the different topic areas and so my i might want to click on math and so here's someone who's tells a story of how they flip the you know the they're their calculus too or problem solving in pre-calculus and right or a problem solving approach pre-cut active learning active learning engaged learning so it looks like maybe i'll just take the the pre-calculus course here just to show you an example here so here's someone uh shannon lanahan um and so she's describing the course and what i'm going to get at here is is poll that she's saying here's the background on why i'm redesigning the course um here's a little history behind it um other information here's you know some of the you know challenges we're having with placement of students and how do we get them into calculus in various ways who about our students i'm going on the left hand side here um you know uh advice i give my students to be successful so she's telling her story about what she's trying to do and the learning outcomes she's trying to have the oops sorry the assessments um and here's shannon if you want to talk to her you can talk with her too now on the right hand side here all right uh this is where shannon talks about what did she actually do goal-based grading problem solving so there might be stuff in here um about um how she did it what she did and and it's also what's the benefits that occurred for uh for students and you know did their a percent of a student earning a see-your-better in the redesigned nursing non-redesigned course right so you know it looks like it had the redesigned course more students um got a see-your-better and of course that looks like many of them were failing the first time and so here's some student feedback so so this could be teaching tips so so there can be stuff in here um poll that can help you get ideas about what might be lesson plans that that that might work for you okay right what was that helpful paul yeah yes yeah thank you okay now and and what i'm going to show you point out here is see right at the bottom here this is um a if think of it like a logo that's telling you what license or what permission you have to use everything that shannon created and and this cc is called a creative commons license right and that's telling and and the buy here and you see it's like a little person and and it says you can use anything that shannon created there right you can copy and paste it and all you need to do is when you create what's called a derivative work you create your own stuff based on what shannon did all you need to do is in a sense put in the footnote that you have used materials that you obtained from shannon langahan in your new work right so it's just you know like we do in all referencing when we're referencing other people's work so so all the stuff that you see in open educational practices right the openness is saying look at what i did and you're welcome to reuse it and revise it for yourself so it works and just recognize my contributions into your practices okay all right um let's see uh how about um amanda should should i go to english here would that be helpful i'm not sure that the e-portfolio would be as helpful for me okay all right so so let's go back to um uh all right is there something else you would like me to go for for you amanda um but i think if i if i get you right um that i think if um how do we find more materials right how about that okay so let me do this english hang on oh you know i i know what i'll do hang on what i'm gonna do is we're gonna do that do the browse thing again let's say we go browse materials okay and uh because what i'm going to show you next is if merlot doesn't have it what do you do then right well merlot help can help you find things so remember we went to so i'm browsing through just going through again so we're going to go to english right and then we're going to go to literature so we click on literature right and and now you say oh you know i didn't find anything i you know i wanted here um and um but uh let me stop here so uh what else is out there you know merlot is not the only collection well that's exactly right in but what we've done in merlot is you say what are other libraries and what do they have so merlot searches simultaneously about 80 other open libraries at the same time so if you want to know more stuff right if you want to say oh in english literature for example um how about um the suny system right the state university of new york so i can just click on that and then i then buy that one click it'll then go look in that collection and then come up with here are the resources that are in english and it's still cranking away i'm at home in my you know home network so so here are four materials that suny has about literature humanities and humanities and humanity and then i can say oh let me go look at that right or what i can find more information about it here's a description of it it's gotten peer reviewed oh boy this is this might be helpful right so when merlot doesn't have it you can also look at all these other collections uh you know you might want to say well how about mit open courseware all right so now here's um a hundred materials in mit open courseware literary you know literary studies the legacy of england right and then i can say oh let me go see what that is i'm leaving merlot website and now here i am at mit here are assignments short papers and and actually you know um paul um open courseware is going to have more these type of assignments in them so that might be a place where you can go to mit open courseware and look for um the assignment side of stuff okay so is this is this helpful um amanda saying okay here i can look at mit open courseware what's the readings that they use blah blah blah is that helpful she she says yes okay great yeah all right so you have mit open courseware um the other thing too what you can do in here you can say um i maybe i only want certain creative commons license things so i only want things with cc buy because i want to be able to revise and remix it and so here's the five materials with that so just to give you a sense there's lots of ways to narrow down the type of materials um that you have and you can narrow it down by licensing as well okay so i can filter it not filled i could just get anything that's out there right now one last thing i can say well what's out on the web in general is there new stuff that might not have been put in the library now merlot instead of going to google right and and if you typed in english literature in google i'm guessing that um in the top um you know uh three hit lists it's not going to be um the uc i school of humanities english and digital humanities and literature humanities at columbia university right um and and and the reason for that is what we've done in merlot we've created a special google search application that looks for material that are more relevant for faculty and education not the general public so so that's what the web search does here okay so i just realized we're at the top of the hour and and gregg i didn't get to do um skills comments so maybe we might just have to do that another time um yeah or i can definitely um refer people to the video from yesterday where you covered it so that's great um and paul that if you're doing like different applied topics for c different cte classes for math 118 skills commons a good place to go skills commons dot org yeah you know what i'll do if you if you don't mind paul i'll do a um a lightning fast um so skills commons dot org and then if you typed in math right here are um 466 math materials um and it you know it could be related to developmental education um manufacturing petroleum products um wholesale trade motor vehicle parts um things like that and and what what you can do is i'll just i'm just going to click on something right um and here is what's the math things related to petroleum and coal products and um and so what's in merlot here and here's our how do i plan i'm just looking at here here's the type of materials are planning uh plan you know program planning resources resource materials and and guidance on grants um if i may want to look at here assignments maybe i'll do that paul type of material here are assignments um in math um and so here are um more specific things around and again i'll just pick one uh the math modules so here is um module two fractions you actually can download the uh the word document uh it's opening up right now and uh and so this is probably more of a um classroom assignment it's just running slow for me so right now sorry i apologize so so here's uh oh from uh Missouri math wins um so here's a uh um you know like a handout this is probably more what you're looking for paul yeah yeah that's exactly yeah that looks good yeah okay all right so so real quick it's all i did was um i typed in went to skills commons dot org typed in math right and then the material type is going to be assignments okay yeah okay yeah thanks uh you're welcome all right so i hope you got something out of today paul and amanda that will make your life just a little bit easier as you're working on your z degree program thank you oh you're you're very welcome and um and greg again and and um you can let all your faculty know that we're here to help support so if you have questions you could just email us up about something and if you need a little refresher about things um just let us know i'll have both of those videos up on youtube probably by the end of the week for you okay okay well thanks so much jerry thanks maria um we appreciate you taking the time to walk us through these things our pleasure all right well take care have a good rest of the week yes you too bye bye