 So as you know, we are hosted by the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning. So today we're going to have Sarah Sweeney speak to us about open educational resources. Sarah is our project coordinator here at Coral and she's been working with Coral since 2015. So she's going to share some of her wisdom about OER and her talk is called Introduction to Open Educational Resources. So I'm going to introduce you to the concept of open educational resources. I don't know how many people already know what those are or anything. Does anyone think that they can define open educational resources? I think it's kind of like free teachers pay teachers where ever where you can create something that's to be used in the classroom or other teachers create it and it's and then you put it out there to share and you give permission for other teachers to utilize it in their classrooms. Okay, that's pretty good actually. Yeah, that's better than some definitions I've heard for sure. Okay, great. So thank you for taking a stab at it. So I'll give you a little more details about the ideas and so yeah, you said something about sharing and permissions and those are really important things. So I'm really glad that you mentioned those and free also is important but that's not that's a good thing but it's not the only part of open educational resources. So I'm just going to give you a little introduction to Coral first, although we've talked about it before. So Coral is one of 16 national foreign language resource centers in the country and we're funded by a grant from the Department of Education, it's a Title VI grant and so Title VI just covers all of the different international education and so the National Heritage Language Resource Center that I think Gabriela mentioned earlier is one of the other centers and there's a lot of other centers too that have a lot of good offerings and we have a brochure about those in your folder so you can check those out as well. And we're located at the University of Texas at Austin obviously and we're the only center focused on open educational resources for language learning. So the other centers have different foci but our focus is only OER for language learning. And so Coral, you've heard us say this acronym already, so Coral is the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning so our logo is this so you can see OER is a really important part of our logo. So just to go deeper into the definition of open educational resources and our definition here there's a lot of different definitions is educational material offered freely for anyone to use involving a combination of the following permissions retain so that means there's no expiring passwords you can keep things for as long as you want you can download them reuse so you can reuse them as many times as you want and you don't have to worry about violating copyright with that you can redistribute so you share them with the community you can share them with your students you can share them with your colleagues remix so you can take different materials that you like and put them together and revise that's really important so it's helpful for open educational resources to be in editable formats like Google Docs or something so you can make changes to it and even something like the template that you were working on earlier filling out about your programs that would be in OER because you can it's it's sort of a thing that you can modify for your own use and so why are we talking about OER well there's two main reasons so the first reason is financial and the second is pedagogical financially I think I don't really have to explain to you that education isn't very well funded this is just one of many charts showing how the prices of textbooks that's the dark blue line have gone up much faster than prices of other consumer items so and a lot of surveys have shown that students will choose not to take a class because the book is too expensive or they won't buy the book and they'll they'll get a worse grade because of it so that's a major problem in in higher ed and in in K-12 but then the really important reason is pedagogical and I think that's the reason people don't always focus on as much so we talk about resources being free or low cost but the pedagogical benefits are are really incredible and especially for languages like heritage teaching where as Gabriella kept saying in her presentation it's so important that that you really teach according to your specific students and how you have to sort of emphasize the differences between your students and those can't that can't really be done with a traditional textbook with one traditional textbook you need a lot of different sources for doing that and we are helped with that because you can get things from different places you can adapt them so you can really you can really make something that's appropriate for your students so I'm going to show you this quick video about describing how we are in a nutshell just 30 seconds or a minute preventing you from making copies or modifications OERs allow you to remix revise and reuse materials creatively adapting your resources and sharing them with language teachers and classrooms all over the world come explore this new pedagogical landscape and open up your resources and your classroom okay so hopefully that just emphasizes what I was just talking about and as an example another example of open educational resources so in that video there was someone took took a lesson from the internet and modified it and the lesson was actually one that was written by our other presenters Yanina and Jose Esteban so and and their materials are creative commons licensed so we're allowed to to use that in our video and to make changes to it and other teachers can can make changes as well and use them in their classroom and so so the video also mentioned copyright and that's a really important aspect of this whole thing so open educational resources have do not have a copyright or they do have a copyright but there's an other license on top of that which gives gives the people using the materials more rights than they would normally have so with copyright you can see on the left the publisher has all these different rights over the materials and the user doesn't have hardly any rights so the publisher can copy the materials they can distribute copies they can make derivatives they can make changes and they can sell the original materials or they can sell the changes that they've made but a user they can only buy one copy and then use that one copy for themselves so you can see that there's really big disparity between the person creating the materials and the person using the materials but then with open educational resources we use creative commons licenses and these give so this allows the publishers the authors and the users to share the rights more so the publishers and the authors can choose which rights they want to keep for themselves and which rights they want to give away to the people using the materials and so you can see here there's there's a lot of different creative commons licenses and this is kind of complicated at first so the the main thing to remember this is kind of the most simple creative commons license CC by so when you see that it means that you can make copies of the materials you can make changes to the materials you can share the materials you can even sell the materials without violating copy right as long as you give credit to the person who who made the original materials and then there's all different licenses that have different restrictions so for example if you see this symbol right here that means you cannot sell the materials if you see this material this this symbol that means you can't change the materials and if you see this symbol that basically means you have to you can share the materials but you have to share them with the same license so you can just see here that this gives authors a lot of freedom to decide how they want people to use the things that they create and so basically copyright is all rights reserved it's one C in the circle and creative commons is some rights reserved two C's in a circle so you're reserving some of the rights when you create open educational resources and you're giving some of the rights to the people using the materials and so this concept of free when we talk about open educational resources being free it's sort of different definitions of free so so both definitions the gratis version and the libre version are both applicable but what we're really talking about more is the libre version so you're free you have the freedom to use these materials the author has the freedom to share the materials with other people so it's really not just about the free cost or the low cost it's about the freedom to use materials in a lot of different ways so I have a few just so you can kind of concept conceptualize what I'm talking about I have a few examples of open educational resources that I'll I'll go through and these aren't all Spanish examples but it's just to show you an idea of what can be an open educational resource and what is out there so the first one actually is a Spanish example and OER can be an activity so this is an activity that people actually at this workshop two years ago wrote and then we posted it on the website afterwards so these are just regular high school teachers who created this material and now it's available for other people to use and it has a Creative Commons license on the bottom and an OER can also be a lesson or a unit plan it can be curricula it can be a course it can be a syllabi a syllabus or syllabi it can be a podcast it can be a tool it can be a full textbook it can be a story so this is a collection of stories from Indian languages it can be videos it can be professional development so it's not just for students but it's for teachers as well or it can be a wiki and the list goes on so basically anything you use in your classroom that has a Creative Commons license on it is an open educational resource and so just so you get an idea of how you can find these resources I hope that you will kind of try to explore them a little bit if you haven't already because there's a lot out there so you can search for authentic materials authentic materials can be open educational resources or you can search for already for lessons that have already been created by other teachers that you can use or modify so one way to search for authentic resources like images, audios, video and texts is on ccsearch so you can go there by typing in search.creativecommons.org and so this website sort of combines all the different all the different websites that have images and texts and video so you type in your search query here and then you get results from all of these different websites like Flickr or wiki media or YouTube and all of the results have Creative Commons licenses so this is just an easy way you don't have to go to YouTube to look for a video or to Flickr you can just type look in all of those different places at once with this search and this is provided by Creative Commons which is the organization that creates the Creative Commons licenses and then oh yeah so this is just an example of all the different all the different resources available on these platforms so I'm sure you all already use YouTube or Flickr or websites like that to find things for your own purposes or for your classroom but there's actually a lot but in YouTube and on Flickr and all those places there are copyrighted materials and there are Creative Commons licenses licensed materials and they're all together and they're all labeled but I think a lot of times we don't really look at the labels or the license on the materials we just use them but there's a lot of Creative Commons materials on these places so for example Flickr has four point four hundred fifteen million openly licensed Creative Commons licensed images and YouTube has forty nine million Creative Commons licensed videos so that's really a lot of videos and a lot of them are in other languages besides English so here's an example if you search on Flickr if you type in a search term like graffiti you get all these images and then up at the top you can filter for Creative Commons so where I highlighted in yellow up there so you can choose what Creative Commons license you want but if you click on that you know that you can reuse all of these images without violating copyright or anything and then once you click on an image this is where you see the license on Flickr so it's right under the image and then this is the author's name so you know so you see the license here and you know that you have to attribute the image to that person if you reuse it and here's another example on YouTube you can just type in a search term and click filter up at the top right and choose Creative Commons and then all of these videos are available for you to use as long as you give credit to the to the original creator and so then you can also search for materials on repository so these are materials that have already been created by other people and you can find them and adapt them for your own purposes so we have a guide on Coral's blog about finding these and then there's also a few websites we recommend so Merlot is really useful because it has a lot of materials for language learning and there's a lot of different search terms you can use for language learning so you can even search by proficiency level and by what language and things like that so there's a lot of options so that's at www.merlot.org and then other options are OER Commons or the LRC website so that's the website that all the different national language resource centers in the country share where we all post our materials so here's just an example on Merlot of a material that's posted so one of the interesting things about that is that you can see on the top right corner it says peer reviews and user ratings and comments so this is kind of highlighting an important part of an open educational resources which is the fact that people can talk about materials and share materials so it's not really just like there's this lesson floating out there on the internet you can see what you can see if other people have used it you can talk about the materials with each other and you can also verify that this is of high quality because I know there's a lot of things out there online and they're not always high quality so ratings kind of help you discover what what's the best quality and then also on coral's website we have a lot of different materials so we have a lot of Spanish things this is just an example of how you can find Spanish resources on our website you can go to materials up there at the top and choose Spanish and we have a bunch of different things and we'll be adding a lot more things hopefully if we if we get our grant for the next grant cycle we have a lot more Spanish projects in the works so just to talk about some benefits of open educational resources I'm gonna show you some quotes from people who have used them but first I just wanted to show you as an example that people are using open educational resources a lot I wanted to show you another website that coral has so this is the language OER network and this shows all the different people who use OER or who have taught with OER who have created it or who just who promote it to their colleagues so you can see and this isn't even really an exhaustive list this is just some people we know but all of these people have used OER and you can even you can click on their on their name and see what they've done so it's cool to see all the different projects that people are working on that are available for you to use okay so to go back to the benefits I think we've already talked about being able to use things without restrictions and the price but then there's also other benefits too so for oh wait we started at the very beginning okay so for example this is Megan shocked from Missouri she's a high school teacher a world languages coordinator and she pointed she has started using open educational resources replacing her textbook with OER and she's noticed that it's been easier to to keep with a 90% target language use in her classroom using OER because there's a lot more authentic materials so she can expose her students to a lot more culturally relevant material and a lot more authentic language and another benefit is you can gain more visibility for your work so this is a quote from Ignacio Carvajal who is at the University of Texas and worked on a Qiché project so Qiché is a Mayan language of Guatemala and we made some language learning materials for that language and just in a year or so those they posted videos on YouTube and got 75,000 views so you can see that like it's a language that's spoken by a million people but a lot of people are looking at those videos because they're out there on YouTube and there aren't many similar videos so you can really get exposure for your work and you can it's a nice way for people to be able to use what you're creating and this is Sao Mai Tsai so she wrote a lesson a Chinese lesson on one of our websites and she points out that you can really get new ideas as part of a community with OER so even if you don't use if you find a lesson or an activity online and even if you don't use it you can still get ideas from it you can get inspired by what other people are doing so it's a really good way to share things in a community and of course you can also reduce costs for your students so Yiranye Fernandez Palacios from North Shore Community College created a whole new textbook for her students she was teaching elementary Spanish one for the health professions and she created a whole new textbook for her students that was an open educational resource and she saved her students a lot of money because they didn't have to buy a textbook so these are all benefits of OER but I've been talking a lot about materials and I just wanted to point out at the end of this presentation that OER is not just about materials but there's a whole open education movement that's more about practices as well and I think everyone here is practicing this already as you're all being open educators first by being here and just sharing your ideas with people so everyone's shared ideas already with things they've done in their classroom and that alone in itself is is also an open educational practice because there's a really important community element that goes along with open education okay so these are just some open educational practices sharing adapting materials collaborating mentoring innovating experimenting researching empowering students and showing gratitude so these are all just little things you can do for example with the empowering students a lot of people have their students create their own resources so their students will create lessons for the for students in another class or for the students in the next class so that's just a cool example of being an open educator and then like showing gratitude I think the the attribution part of the Creative Commons license is really important because you can you can use people's ideas and then you can thank them for their ideas and I think so there's a lot of there's a lot of mutual appreciation that goes along with it and so these are just some ways that you can be open in your in your educational practices you can share an idea with a colleague you can join a community such as our heritage Spanish website which Joselia will be talking about later you can try putting a CC license on something that you create you can search for repositories like Merlot for content for your class and you can have your students create their own learning materials so these are just all like small things you can do to start getting into open educational resources and getting into open education well we can I can show you quickly so the Creative Commons website has the licenses on the website so you can basically just copy and paste the license on there but I'll show you okay so if you're on the website and you do share your work and then go down to licensing types I think that should yeah you can find the licenses there so like it gives you explain the terms and then you have to scroll to the bottom and say use license I think there's an easier way to do it but this is oh yeah that's okay yeah that's better actually thanks yeah so this tells you you answer the questions about what you want what the terms of the license are so allow adaptations yes allow commercial uses you can say no and then it gives you the license yeah and then you can just copy and paste this part into your document or if you have a website you can copy and paste this text and then these are all the images I used in in the presentation just to keep with the open educational attribution so are there any questions yes okay thank you two questions one might be really easy and quick hopefully the other maybe not so first on the non-commercial category of yeah what a does that include like a photocopy packet where I'm not where I'm just I'm not making any profit on it it's our department charges four cents a copy oh yeah just put it in a photocopy packet is that considered would that be breaking the non-commercial part of that I think if you're not I don't know that might be a little bit dodgy but I think it's okay because there was a lawsuit recently where the like kinkos or something was making copies for a school district and then someone sued them and kinkos won because they were just they weren't making money I would I guess they weren't making money off of it but they weren't really like selling the materials they were just doing their job and making the copies so I I think that would be okay but okay it might be a little bit but I mean I think it's something with OER is that sometimes it just helps to contact the person who made it and ask them if it's okay and I feel like they would probably say yes because you're not you're a school and you're not making a profit okay so the next question is okay now here I am I'm looking for good materials how do I go and how is this organized how are we gonna find something that's going to be useful well there so you can go on those repositories that I showed you is that are they on this this handout those are all corals materials so that's yeah that's a good place to start so those are all the materials that we've created here at the at coral at the University of Texas but if you want to find things by other people then those are repositories I showed you are a good place to start so yeah search dot creative commons.org yeah and then also Merlot is this website and OER commons I can maybe I can send out the links somehow yeah I can share the power point okay so I'll put the okay yeah I'll put the power point on the drive and then you can see the links I don't have the links to all the repositories so maybe I'll add the links to the other repositories and then put the presentation up there so you can look and when you look at it is it easy to see oh here's Spanish and then there's more events videos how is it well it kind of depends it depends on where you're looking so for example on OER commons I think yeah so you can type in a lesson but I don't know you probably use a better search term than that but then you can choose the subject and the level okay and standards there's no so I'm not sure yeah so then it comes up with a bunch of things and then you can drill down by language and is there a way to do specific language no so yeah this is not this is not ideal but that's why I suggested Merlot because you can search by the language and I think that's way more useful there's even I think there's a place they just changed this in your face so it's not it doesn't look like it looked before but yeah there's a place here where you can search by language so I think that's better although there's also I think there's a better way to do it oh yeah you can select by discipline and then humanities and then subdiscipline and then word languages and then you can search yeah so that's a better way to do it and then all this stuff comes up but then you can filter by like whether it's a website or PDF or what the license is or what level it is and I think in the original search you could also search by lesson or activity or something like that so you could get more granular but but each repository is going to have its own way of finding stuff yeah my question has to do with how you reference the material how do you show credit so you borrow somebody's video or their image then do you just what does it look like are you just copying the CC yeah does APA have a special format for CC material there's not so creative commons on their blog they have advice about how to do it but there's not really one format for it it's sort of everyone does it differently which is a little bit weird but usually they say title author source and license so you would say you would say this image is from this author I found it here and it has this license on it that was excited so if you wanted just to show the image you know you know I guess if we're ever dealing with copyright material and you have permission to use it then you could you put the little C with a last name and a year or something to show that your material was created you know at that time is it gonna work the same way with creative commons yeah I don't think yeah I don't think you have to put the year necessarily but yeah it's basically the same just as long as you also list the license and I noticed was it on the website before this one where it showed a list of activities that there were each activity had a rating is it similar like an Amazon product where you can give it so many stars you got so many ratings and yeah that's I mean not all repositories have that but most repositories do have that the rating system and you can submit comments and things like that so yeah you can filter out the things that have been rated badly okay thanks yeah are there any more questions and if not so Barbara Sahel is here and she had so she's she already wrote a book about using open educational resources in the language classroom and she's working on a new book and so she wanted to talk to you about that quickly and also some another project she's working on and these are just examples of other open projects for you so we I was fortunate to be one of three editors of a book that and I should preface my comments by saying that this is not just a movement that happens here in the United States it's happening all around the world I had the good fortune of attending a conference in Bologna Italy sponsored by Euro call the I don't even know what the acronym means but essentially myself and a woman from the Open University and a woman from the University of Bologna got together and thought it would be really nice to be able to showcase people's work using open educational resources or open educational practices whatever that means it could mean a MOOC it could mean a tool similar to what Sarah was saying that it it defies description it can mean all things and many things what I'll do is put up on in the resource bank in the Google folder a link to the book that we created last five years ago it's simply a book of case studies it's meant not it's not meant to be a highly academic you know highly researched doc a series of documents they're meant to be a series of briefcase studies in which practitioners can go in and say ooh this looks interesting these are really wonderful outcomes here the nuts and bolts of how to do this and be able to contact the person for more information the book is completely open thank you yeah it's right there it's completely open so if you want to click on that the first link there you can download all of the chapters we receive no money for doing this all we did was help curate it and pull things together so it's all completely downloadable searchable queryable all of those things but there are people from all over the world who wanted to share their stories of what they did with open practices resources websites tools etc this was so successful and got really good feedback that we're doing another one so if there's something you are particularly fond of that you're using in your classroom that would quantify as being open I would love to talk with you and I can put up some information on on the call for proposals again these are not meant to be what I sort of call highfalutin academic papers these are meant to be case studies of practical uses of these tools in the classroom with the idea of sharing them with your colleagues with your friends from around the world I think the downloads for this were for everywhere from Africa Asia all over and it's it's been it's been a really great resource so if you're interested in participating please let me know I'll put up more information on the Google Doc site the last thing I want to say is my other one of the other hats I wear because we all wear many hats I'm the Spanish language education coordinator for coordinator for the NPR podcast Radion Volante and I would love to talk with any of you who have used Radion Volante in your classrooms the content of a little bit different the content of Radion Volante is copyrighted the podcast themselves cannot be changed but what we've discovered in the five or six years I've been working with the team is that the variety and the wealth of materials that teachers are creating on their own in in their classrooms for their students how brilliant these materials are and how so many other teachers would benefit from that hard work with Sarah and I were talking about sometimes people outside of our institutions appreciate our work more than our own colleagues do and and this would be an opportunity if you have done work with Radion Volante if you have introduced it with your students especially with heritage speakers I would love to talk with you some more we're thinking about the idea of creating an open repository of those materials I know it is very popular on teachers pay teachers I personally have a problem with teachers pay teachers because you can't always see what the materials are sometimes they're great sometimes they're not so great this the whole idea here would you would get total credit and all of your work would be available to for other teachers to use as well so I'll put information up about the the book about the case studies book and we would love to have people participate in that but I'll also make sure that my information is out there that if you do use Radion Volante in the classroom I would love to talk with you some more thank you all right so now just Ellie is going to introduce the Heritage Spanish website okay so thank you Sarah for showing us all about OER and now I'd like to show you guys so the point of coming to this workshop is getting a lot of resources that you can use take home with you right so I'm gonna show you more specifically what we have what Coral has to offer for Spanish teachers and I was gonna only show you the Heritage Spanish website but I decided two minutes ago that I want to show you some of the other resources that Coral has for Spanish teachers because I recently gave a workshop about spin text which is one of our big things one of our big projects and teachers loved it so I thought maybe I just quickly show you what we have so if you go to where is it or I can find the languages so we have all these languages right and so we're gonna go to Spanish so you can see everything that we have and so there's different projects that you can look through and Spanish abierto introduction to proficiency levels we have the Spanish proficiency exercises which is I don't know how many of you have used this website before but it's these videos they're very old now it but we keep using them and people all over the country tell me oh yeah I know you guys you have those videos with the speakers from all over the world I use them all the time they they're still great so if you don't know this then check out our website and all these are open resources you can use but then I wanted to point out spin text which is the Spanish in Texas corpus and this is a big project that was created by professors Declan Toriva and Barbara Bullock they started working with a lot of grad students who went they got trained and they went out and interviewed people all over Texas to have a record of what Spanish in Texas is like so it's a big project with a video archive then a website of Spanish grammar in context which basically teaches grammar concepts using examples from these videos and in the video archive it can be a great source for research but also for teachers because you have these speakers who are not necessarily from one type of Spanish but really the Spanish that is spoken in Texas comes from everywhere right you have people who moved here from other places people who grew up here there's a wide variety so we have all these videos which is a really great resource and lots of different topics and you can search by language features like if you want to teach possessives or deseos or express our agradecimiento it's all tagged and then you have by speaker so you can you have all these speakers and if you want to use only people who are from a certain place in the state and once you find a video people love to see this so if you open a video and for example you're gonna show you have the transcript which you can hide or show for their students and if you want to focus on imperfecto so I want to hide all the verbs that are imperfect and have the students fill them out for example and there's a lot you can do with this so I'm just giving you a quick glimpse of it so you can go and explore it on your own but for now now what I was supposed to talk about is the Heritage Spanish website which is the project that we are very proud of because it's not just a website this is the website where I showed you where you could go and find our resources it's the community and now that you're here you're all part of this community so what is the purpose of the website so if we can see here on the main page un espacio para los instructores de español que quieran colaborar compartir y comunicarse con otros sobre la enseñanza y el aprendizaje del español como lenguaderencia so if you've found yourself searching for adapting or creating materials for your heritage classes because of a lack of readily available commercial resources this site is for you so there's different things you can do here you can have a conversation with other instructors about anything that would be relevant for heritage Spanish instruction you can share resources you can find a bunch of resources and stay up to date on new events and things that would be interesting for any teachers of heritage Spanish at any level so I'm going to kind of go over the different things we have on the website so you can see we have this message board where you can go and ask a question and hopefully somebody will have the answer for you or comments right so this is a great place to just get started if you are wondering oh how do you teach this particular topic to heritage students for example and so I invite all of you to register for this forum and the way you do that is you go here register and you can write all your information and then it'll send you an email and then you can click on that email and verify your account so it's great because so all the people who are already members have filled out their profiles and you can go on here and read about them if the computer cooperates with me well you can click there and it'll show you the profiles of all the people who are teaching Spanish for heritage learners all over the country at different levels so okay I'm going to skip over the participate and I'm going to show you some of the resources we have so for example we created this page current affairs where we started putting materials that would be useful to support undocumented students in the recent year where this has become more relevant so that's the kind of thing that we can post here if there's ever anything you want to share that you think is relevant that would help other instructors just send it to us and we will share it we have classroom activities and I don't know if you've heard of the coral collaborators program but coral gives small grants to collaborators who are create want to create material and these three activities you see at the top were from last year's workshop a year ago after the workshop there was a call sent out for collaborators and people applied and those who got selected they worked for the year on a project that they would like to create and share and they got a small grant to work on this and now they're ready and so these are all open resources that you can use and for example we have one about Graffiti el Arte Urbano is Panamericano and there's a collection of videos that a teacher here in Austin created that she filmed children heritage learners who are children because she felt the need for videos not just of grown-up speaking Spanish but children themselves speaking Spanish to be models for the kids that she was teaching so that's if you teach kids that would be a really great resource and then we have a collection of activities by Claudia Alguim Mendoza and her team at the University of Oregon and it's a great collection of activities based on critical pedagogies I invite you to look at it and you might want to use it we have a whole curriculum that was developed for a community college and then we have all the activities that have been created by Esteban and Janina Hernandez and their team at UT Rio Grande Valley and they're going to talk more about those tomorrow but now you know where to find them and so on we have more activities there that you can use we have a list of textbooks that commercial textbooks if you want to browse program profiles this is where we are hoping to have a list of the different heritage Spanish profiles of programs are around the country so if you have a program and it's not on here we'd love for you to send us a short description so we can add it to the list and what else interesting articles we are section on assessments is very small everybody knows the problem with placement exams and so we're trying to collect more information to share about placement exams then some more research and pedagogy things that might be interesting to you resources from all over the country newspapers syllabi and this this section wouldn't it be great if we had a bank of syllabus syllabi from all different places with different levels different courses so I'm trying to get people to share their syllabus so that we could post it you put a creative commons license on it so far we have three and guess what these are my three so so that's all you do is you know I'm gonna show you how you put your these are the three courses that we teach at UT for heritage learners and okay I just want to open the document all you do is okay open it that's my syllabus and you put the creative commons license on there and now this is an open resource so you can go and look at my syllabus and you know you might like a couple things from there and want to integrate them to your own or see kind of what kind of topics we cover at the University of Texas and think about what you want to do for your own syllabus right so if we had many more then you know all the better right so that's something that we're trying to grow in like this is a community that's still growing so we have a list of other websites that might be useful for you and finally our events page which is this is where we are we are sold out but if you have any events that are coming up that you think would be of interest to the community we would love to hear from you and we will share it because there are a lot of people who go on here and find out about events on our website so it'd be a great place to promote your event and finally I want to go back to the participate section because this is what we want you to do we want you to participate so the purpose of the website is to have a space where we can all share it's not like a couple of us are going to create all this stuff for the world because nobody has time for that right but if we all do a small part and add it to our repository then we would have a big rich place where we can go and look for materials so if you have any resources that you would like to share under our Creative Commons license just send it to us we will look at it we can give you feedback then we might you know ask you to make some changes or we might say this is great just put the creative license on it and we'll share it on the website and then it'll be open so that is the only way that our community will grow is if more people participate and more people create their own materials so I want to finish up by saying like I said it's not a website it's a community and it was recently a couple of weeks months ago open education week and we were celebrate celebrating here I guess and I was asked to write a short blog post for the UT library and I'm going to just read a little bit of what I wrote which is going to conclude kind of our day so throughout the country Spanish instructors at all levels are forming programs creating materials to serve heritage Spanish learners and it seems that we all have some common goals to help heritage Spanish speakers develop their bilingual skills to empower them to apply those skills in academic and professional settings and to feel proud of their cultural and linguistic heritage so if we all have similar goals and we're all working on creating programs and materials to serve those students why not share the work we're doing right so I have been able to share some of my work and see and hear about other people using it in other parts of the country and that's really rewarding and I believe we all collaborate and if we all share openly then we'll be more successful in achieving our own goals but also our common goals so I'm going to finish there and if you have any questions about the community the website or anything I'm happy to answer no so is everybody going to go and sign on right now yes