 Thanks. Thank you, Katie. Welcome, everybody. I just dropped the resources for today in the chat. I am Julie Erickson. I'm a learning specialist at Thai technology and innovation and education. And with me today is. Joe Newpell and I'm a recently retired K through 12 school librarian and English teacher. And Julie and I have been working on this grant project since 2018. And so we are really excited to share with you kind of some of the some of the big things that we learned along with inviting you to participate in the in the process and jump into OER Commons and also see kind of where you know what we did while we went through the through the process. So I dropped the resources in the chat there at tie dot link slash OE 21. And if we scroll on down we have kind of the big picture of everything that that the grant was about. So it was a three year grant we worked with three states, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Wyoming, and we had 13 participants from each state so a total of 39 participants, and our, our overarching focus was OER. But then we also moved into, you know, how do you how do you incorporate that you'd also need the technology and the leadership in there. And so we focused, we added on technology and leadership. So we focused on the, the evaluating and curation and during our first year, we did remixing and and then we also expanded out to other OER repositories. And then finally, this last year has been how do we sustain the work. And so how do we build that collaboration beyond just our cohort and out, out beyond into into other areas. And then the communication and how do we continue with that that communication. So as we scroll on down our main platform that we utilized was OER comments. And so if you would like if you don't have an OER comments account we encourage you to create an OER comments account they are free. And then we also encourage you to join our group expanding OER in the school library, because within this group gives us an opportunity to pull in resources that you may find useful in school library for you pull in resources that are useful for school library. And then we've also added a couple of discussions here that will direct you to in a little bit. And so we encourage you to also check those out. So the links are on that at the beginning of our, our page. And you could also follow up on whether you have an account or not, but to be able to actually answer the discussion questions into upload resources, you do need an account. Because our overarching overarching goal is Julie said is that we want to expand the school library presence in all OER, but we'll start with OER comments. So as part of the part of the work that we did with the grant, we are producing a guidebook and so currently it's in draft form because we got an extension of a year for the grant due to due to the pandemic. And we have provided you with the link to the draft though because the draft is almost as I mean it's not as pretty but all the contents there. So as you as you hop in you will be able to get the big picture of the of the project. And so you'll also see that we've added in our courses course to course four and course six which are OER, which are our OER focused courses. And so if you click on those links that will take you right down to that information. Eventually, the guidebook will be an OER comments because it, excuse me, it is designed for others to replicate, adapt, edit, pick and choose the parts that work for you. And again, not every course was every somewhere the threat of OER was through everything we did. The specific courses were the two four and six because we also had their graduate students but they were at very different levels in their technology and leadership and certainly OER skills. And so we did a lot of background building and we did a lot of scaffolding for them. And so as you go in, you will see you have access to the actual course itself so you can jump in and and see the structure and everything. Course two we did exploring OER and sent them out to really dive into OER Commons. And so participants had that opportunity to explore OER Commons collaborate with other librarians and really jump into all of that. And so when we did this, the other thing, the other professional development that we had within this this grant was every year we had a webinar series, which was built around a topic. And then we also had our technology and innovation and education or TAI conference that allowed our participants opportunity to not only have a focused session, a four hour session of just grant work, but then we were also able to they were also able to build their own professional development by attending the conference sessions. So here's kind of the outline for for each of the years, and you can like I said jump into each of the OER courses. And of course, it was built to be hybrid, the project and unbeknownst to us with with the very first planned event we had a Blizzard in Wyoming. So we went right to zoom before anybody even knew what zoom was about except Julie. And then we really were very prepared when the pandemic came along and we made further adjustments. Yeah, the cohort was exceptionally well prepared when the pandemic came along. They were already zoom provision. So, as we as we go through and and look more. There's a couple of. So, so our very first year, we worked on on curation. And so that was, we really jumped into, are you a curator or a dumper. And in the chat we're curious, are you a curator or a dumper, because that's one of the things that's kind of a fun, fun thing to think about. And the cult of pedagogy does a really nice job of illustrating that by saying you have a friend who's asked you to pursue she recommendations, and you send a list of links like this. Or if you curate them down and send a nice list of links like this. Okay, you're a curator, I admire you because I'm kind of a dumper. And when I'm working on it. But so it that you guys are really good. So that was the big focus of the first year was like building those curation skills, and then how do we collaborate and come out. And so, do you use a we are Commons. And thank you, I'm glad somebody's a dumper. And so we really were to talk about curation and how that looks, and how it looks in only our Commons. And so for example, we had them get we gave them the opportunity to curate in a group. And so if I pop into our reaching out group, you'll see and you can go into our reaching out group to you just can't join it. Here's the reaching out group. You'll see that we had collections there for the work they did in course to four and six. And then within we, we taught them quite a bit that like within or we are Commons. You can go to your my items and curate just for yourself or things that you want to come back to. And then you can curate into my groups, which we created this group for the cohort. But further, you can create into my hubs, and the state of Wyoming and also North Dakota had hubs in we are Commons, which was another plus when we started. Wyoming has expanded significantly when we started, they hadn't opened theirs up. It was they were still in the building stages and so very exciting when at towards the end of the grant isn't they when they opened up their hub. So the that Wyoming Wyoming school practice school members can join and collaborate and so they have and they have developed processes and everything there too so it's been exciting to have that to carry through. But then we also spent quite a bit of time of using outside curation tools outside of the OER Commons platforms, because one of the questions that continually came up is, well I'm finding this stuff but where do I put it and how do I use it and how do I keep it. And so, it's time for your first question. The tool Wakelet was quite new when we started but I am a total convert I love Wakelet I use it for all kinds of things and I was using it my as even as portfolio or research space for my eighth grade students too. But we'd like to know what you use to curate your situation. Yeah, so I encourage you to join the group for today's session. And then also a job that in the chat and then the discussion question, we're on question one. And that is what tools do you currently use to curate OER content. Or you can just drop it in the chat to and we'll we'll cure we'll curate that and dump it into the discussion so people can kind of see because I use Wakelet extensively. And I also use ego quite a bit to curate content for myself. It just makes it a little easier to come back and be able to find those things that oh this looks interesting. And where where did I put that type of thing. So I appreciate having multiple tools. And I use Diego and at one time I was all into Pearl trees. And then Wakelet has just, they have just continually added features. And they're a Google classroom school at that time and so it just won Google classroom works beautifully with OER comments to and slip grid there's so many different features and things you can do with Wakelet. So I kind of skipped around but because evaluation is the next thing that we did and the reason we ended up doing evaluation. Was because we were working with the ISMI framework and the ISMI framework. Oh sure, I can talk to I can talk about D go all day of course. So, I love D go and we'll just hop right into my my D go account. You're going to notice that I have the D go add on online on my browser and I have it on all of my, all of my different browsers, so that I can quickly add add resources. One of the things I like about D go is if like you add bookmarks to your on your browser you know you just, you just star something on your browser. You, you have to put it in folders or you know whatever and if you're like me, aka the dumper, you end up with the other folder or the miscellaneous folder and that's just where you start putting things after a while because it's like well this is. It's really important for math and science and we are you know it's like what folder do you put it in. So with D go what I can do and so I'll give you a sample so I'm going to bookmark our discussions page. I click on D go. I can save a bookmark. I can add my label, add my tags to it and so I can use any number of tags. And at a conference a lot of times I will add the only 21 because I'll remember that that maybe that's where it was so I'm going to go ahead and save it. And then I'm going to hop back over to my D go and when I refresh there it is. And so now I can search by keyword I can search by tag, I can do all sorts of things like that. And that's going to bring up all the things that I've tagged with the OER tag and so you see I have threatened and 13 results. The other thing that I do with OER with D go a lot is outliners. And so you can really easily send when you're bookmarking you can send something over to an outliner or you can you can create them. And so this is just an outline of links. And so I've done that. I use Wakelet a little bit more now because of the. It's a it's more visual, but for my personal use I use D go a lot just as my kind of like this is where where I put everything that ever might have interested me at any time. And there's there's a free version. There's also a paid version and there's also an educator version. I actually use it so much I've gone to the paid version, but the educator version you set up your free account and then you can apply for the educator free educator and it bumps you up. So you have a few more features. But yeah, I could I could talk about D go all day long so no derailing. Right. Not at all. And I had, I used D go a lot when I taught a college level research class. We use, we use that for our curation tool, but then with eight graders. It was totally wakelet because a wakelet is more visual. And it's a little more. Well, because of the way to work. So here's, here's wakelet. And I also have the wakelet add on my browser so that I can add add links there. And I'm not sure do you. I don't know where the one we're doing together is maybe it's here. I have no idea at this point. Oh, here it is. Yeah, there it is. And I just added, I just added this. That I like to that I watched like 15 minutes ago from this conference. So to give you an idea. And so for me, the drawbacks with wakelet are I can't add tags and so I'm running into that organizational kind of like, just keeping track of all my links. But I love the visual and I love being able to curate into a wakelet. And so that's kind of I tend to do and like, Joan, you found something that was very specific. We are, and you dropped it in there. And so that was, that was really great. You can in this one, the tags are a downfall, but you can annotate, you can share it can be collaborative. Like you just saw Julie get into this is a collection in my account. So that's what I can collaborate. Right. Okay. All right. So, yeah, we could create an all day so we better move on. The other thing that so so evaluation was was part of the second year and why you asked the ISC me framework, which is also an IML part of an IMLS grant, a different one not ours. And when we started ours, but we had built it into our grant. And so, in the second year, we were able to bring in the, the ISC me framework. And I do, you know, like, like working with Wyoming, they for their hub have developed a OER process, and they've also done a evaluation process. And so step four, when you're on the OER curation process steps is how you can evaluate to see if it supports OER. And so that's where you can look at your, your copyright or your licensing. You can also look at your format can you edit it. And is it reusable. And then we move on to step five. Yeah, step five is where we have and this is, I just, I just get so excited about this because you have your standards alignment rubric which is really important when we're in schools, but then you also have your accessibility, which I really, you know, like today I'm so glad that, you know, like we talked about how we got the transcript, you know how you can access that. And then finally evaluating bias. And so you can go through and evaluate how that is is set up. And so all three of those are part of the ISC me framework. And if you go into our group and look at the OER Commons. All over the place today, Joan, apparently. Okay, go into our group and look at course two or course four. That group, what they did in this one is they actually evaluated these utilizing the framework. And so that was so all of these that are collected in here have been part of the were evaluated. So just kind of as you're as you're jumping in. And then ASL has also put together an OER toolkit toolkit and theirs is a little less specific than the ISC me framework but it's it's got good good stuff in it too. All right, now. Now we can talk about remix Joan and this is so much fun. So Joey to hop in. Well yeah, and while you're doing that I'll just say that one of the things that we found with our cohort members and I think it's true across K-12 education is they often want to do a specific subject and they search for it and they're like oh there's something there I can't use this. But OER is not that quick and that simple. And in my mind, every subject is something that can be used for library or library instruction, or if you're working for instance my example here with the eighth grade history teacher, and they're reading and Frank and ELA class. The OER resource had nothing to do with and Frank. However, it was fantastic. And with OER comments in that platform, the remix is basically a template, and it is so easy to do that so we added what we needed in there, along with the other great content that was there. You can see inversion history if you click on that Julie it shows you like who the original creator was for that. And then what I really like too about this is that you can see when you click on view resources, you can see the teacher view, and then you can see the student view, and you can put it right into Google classroom. But also everything in OER comments if it's, if you're able to remix it it has the remix button right there. You can have an authoring tool. It has to be authored put in through their authoring tool to be able to remix and of course, it depends on what creative comments life and scene is attached to it also. But it's pretty simple for someone who knows nothing about OER to get started. And they have a lot of very helpful how to videos. That's a good example of a remix, because we know Anne Frank's father was the one survivor, and that's where he survived out switch. And the other great thing is, you know, like you've with this remix made sure that it's really more like a hyper doc. You know, just a just a text heavy document and so this is actually a lesson plan that you can take and use with your learners rather than having to, to do something, something else with it. So the idea that you're going to, you know, find that magic wonderful resource or lesson that with the first search is something we worked quite a bit with on our, with our cohort, and that what you find, you know, what can you do with that how to make it work. So we'd like, you know, do you when you have time or if you have not yet done this just take a look at some of the remix options within this platform to give you an idea of that. And then our final big step with OER was to have them actually create and contribute because often, you know, then in education over 40 years you find great stuff, you adapt it you use it but that sharing back that taking time to share it back beyond like, you know, your neighbor down the hall or the next, the librarian at the next school. That's what we really need to see more librarians doing I feel is that contributing back. And so, in our last course, that was a requirement. We used OER comments again. And here's an example you can use their offering tool. And here's an example of money that Julian and I created for that. And you couldn't, it's again a template you can have this in a Google Doc and just cut and paste into the right spots. And you can add as little or as much as you want one of the things to through the whole project is we wanted these activities and assignments to be things they could use tomorrow. Not something that wasn't relevant to their everyday life right now. And so, you might take a lesson that you've already taught five or six times, and then adapt it to put in. There are other, the other way if you go back Julie to the other link is finding just a resource that you don't back to the agenda. Sorry, sorry. I wasn't clear. There are other ways to add things to OER comments I just gave you one example of that. Yeah, the eighth grade middle school la. That would be something that you totally create. And you're still contributing back, like you found this great resource. And then you put that resource into the OER crew. So, then the last, the last component was, you know, how do we increase school library and presence in OER Commons, but then also increase that awareness for OER possibilities for K 12. If we look at our guidebook and kind of, you know, talk about the results of the project and you know how that how that worked out. There was some definite. You know, lots of graduate credit, lots of lots of really great things. The things that support open education resources. So when you're looking at that collaboration component, you know, look how this was before one of their courses and then after you know they're they are identifying collaboration as a strength. And they're, you know, really emphasizing technology and leadership. But one of the things that really derailed everything was the pandemic, because many of the group felt that they could not push like one more thing on to their colleagues. While they could still curate and pull together and tribute, you know, library resources, taking it further into their districts was was a little bit more of a challenge. But we did ask administrators, and they really felt that librarians were critical on many of the areas that support integrating OER. And my favorite is our, where's our, where's my favorite is it this one. Yes. So this is the before and after I actually amazingly enough set up the evaluation, so that we did. We asked questions before and after it was, and this is from the OER. This can be OER framework that's assessing readiness for OER creation. And so this was before the grant the blue was, and then after the grant. And one of the things that was, I think, I just think it's exciting because it's like the more you know the formal criteria and review processes. We, we felt that that was one of those things that once we added in the ISMI framework and there was all that, you know, more information about what we need to look at with OER because as librarians we tend to think, oh yeah, I evaluate, you know, I evaluate and review and you know the process is in place, but with OER it's just a little bit different because there's there's some other things we need to look at. And so that was pretty exciting. And then the other thing and is that that dropped is encouraging educators to customize and adapt learning materials to meet local classroom needs. This is strictly pandemic. Just because we were, you know, really, you know, I mean, that would have, I mean, it's been, you know, they've anecdotally shared with us that it just don't feel like they can push more out on onto their onto their colleagues at this point. Oh, I'm just going to add to that. For example, one of our librarians rather than continuing on the OER she spent her time teaching literally most of her colleagues how to use Google Classroom. And so her, her focus shifted due to the, the needs of the students and the teachers during the pandemic. But I am, I am so excited that we have 39 librarians that are now, you know, aware and promoting and using open education resources, which is 39 more than we had before. And of course, we probably skip this a little bit, but our whole project was because we were across three states, we based it on national standards and frameworks so ASL and the future ready librarians and then the ISTI standards. And there was great growth in all of those areas. And again, we concentrated on the OER is the biggest thread, but the technology and the leadership. Those are really two necessary three things to bring this new concept into your school, into your district. And then maybe go down to some of our final results where they had the potential to earn 12 graduate credits. And then those who went above and beyond could earn up to 15. And, you know, over the three year period, we is going to say 407 yes graduate credits were earned. And what was really impressive to us is the different ways each of our individuals use those credits. And one of them used it, you know, to renew their teachers to get some of them actually had let one or two had let their teachings to get expire to some of the parameters to become a member of the group was needed a four year degree you didn't need a library degree necessarily because of course in our, our states, there are different requirements for school librarians. And then they use them to move up on the salary schedule they use them to start a master's degree, many different ways. It was very exciting to see. We actually had two participants that went all the way that that earned every credit possible, which is really cool. This was all paid for for them. Yeah, the travel if they, I mean what little travel we did the credits, some of the instructional materials we used. And I think one of the, the biggest things with the cohort that we, one of the big challenges that we had was how do we build a group that communicates with each other and use each uses each other as a resource. So, we created a private Facebook group from the beginning. And as part of the course assignments if you go through and look at the courses you'll see that some of the assignments were post your goal to the Facebook group. And what we didn't do any you know you have to comment on three other people, there was none of that. But you just had to post and what was really fascinating was we ended up with really authentic conversations where people would say, Oh, I'm doing that goal or I'm doing that to or I've done that here are some resources and so it turned into this this this this authentic collaboration opportunity and communication opportunity. And I had, I mean, just this week somebody posted, I have, you know, I got some bedbugs in the book return, you know what do I do. And so, and then oh, and there's like half a dozen responses now which is super cool, you know, I mean when you think about, we did encourage them to build their PLN and go beyond our group, but just having that opportunity to, you know, we've taken the same training and done the same resources and so that's been that's been really phenomenal as we as we've gone through. And we have about six minutes left, Joan, I'm going to jump us up to the books. Okay, because, right. And then also, you know, please, unmute yourself or put it in the chat if you have questions. And let us know too, if you take a look at the guidebook, things that are missing there that need some editing that would be wonderful. Thank you. Yes. Why don't I remember where our books are. They're under the tools. Okay, sorry. There you go. What tools can you use. Okay. There we are. And so, as you just FYI for all the tools we did free resources we use strongly Google. But you can also we also you could use. We also utilize Microsoft Office 365 you know anything that allows you to have that collaboration component. We use, you know, social media, we also use a lot of I'm losing my mind. Yeah, we are Commons history, etc, etc. We did have a paid zoom account because you need a paid zoom account. And you're doing when you're doing this level of communication. But the grant enabled us to purchase books for the cohort. And so each year we purchased two titles at least to enable them to utilize those during the courses and so the now classrooms book. And there's there's one for K2, 35, you know, etc. That was for course one where they were doing their standards and diving and learning about standards was also utilizing technology. And so we actually had Meg come in and talk with us. Kristen Mattson's digital citizenship and action was utilized during the webinar series for year one. For two, we utilized hacking school libraries, which was amazing because there's 10 different ways to incorporate the library media center in your community. And one of the things we did with that was we said, okay, pick a hack. So they had an opportunity to pick a hack. And then that was what they focused on in the fall course. And so we had everything from, you know, increasing reading in the library or focusing on reading to looking at policies and procedures. And so it was, it was really, I mean, when one of the participants read their entire library, you know, we got new furniture and all sorts of cool things. So that was exciting. And it was fun to watch that conversation in the Facebook group is they had to share their hack. And, you know, and then people would share resources and things like that. For the, we have used fact versus fiction for our spring course. And that was the OER course but we also pulled in that that critical thinking and remember this is also the year where we were doing that evaluation. And so it was a lot of, you know, fit in really well. And I'm so excited Jennifer Lagarde has a new book out so I'm excited about that. The pandemic hit during year two. And Lisa Johnson's creatively productive book was on Amazon Kindle for like super cheap like $1.99 or something. And she actually, so for our Thai conference, we did it virtually. And we gave everybody the book as a Kindle book. And Lisa came and spoke with us and she just has some excellent if you're if you're looking to organize your life a little more and think about how to organize your Google Drive and how to take notes and you know all that stuff. Such a good resource. And so that was a really it was it was like perfect for the time because we needed something that that was, you know, like how to make your technology life better and it was good. And then, oops, what did I do? Oh, I went into the book. Sorry. Yeah, we're almost out of time but then for the last year. And then our last year. We did charting the course, which was another really great book because she has five chapters with each one is a five to try and so bringing in technology with a focus around a topic. Then our cohort was able to select their own titles for professional development. And so if you roll on through you'll see the, all of these different titles were options and then keep clicking here's more of the ones that were selected. And so that very last year we enabled our participants to go out and find their own titles and then we did did discussions. So that is pretty much our session. So if you have any questions, we encourage you to go back into the OER group and in the discussions tab. Answer our question to that barriers to OER implementation. And I will drop the resources in the chat again. And they are linked on our session resources to please help us by looking at what the cohort has already done in OER Commons by by building that new group, because we are going to keep this going. And hopefully increase that school library and presence throughout OER. Thank you everyone. Okay everyone joining me in thanking our present presenters today. If you have any more questions for them then now is the time to do it. And soon I'm going to stop the recording and you will be able to rewatch this tomorrow if you would like. Thank you. Thanks for spending time with us everyone. Oh a link to the pv books yes. Okay, I'm going to stop the recording now.