Open Education Resources:

Creative Commons has different types of licenses that I will need to keep in mind while looking at resources.

  • Unsplash- Free to use images that you can search by category such as Current Events and Athletics, as well as 3D Renders
  • Pexels– free images and videos with free download and you can remix as needed. There are categories to search by as well.
  • Flickr– is another source for CC images, which you can look at based on license type.
  • Canva– has free graphics, photos, short videos, gifs, and audio clips to use while making projects on their site. There are some even nicer ones you can access if you buy a premium membership
    • There is also an Education section for Teachers to create classroom materials and students to make assignments like projects and posters. Apparently you can make videos on here too. My classmate made short clips to use an intro and ending scene for our project.

Audio repositories free to use:

  • Creative Commons Website has a list of website to find free to use music.
  • Free Music Archive (FMA)- full songs from various genres to use in social media and projects for free. If you want to use them for a monetized video you have to purchase a license for each track that you want to use.
  • Epidemic Sound has free to use sound effects

I had never looked at other Wikimedia forms, such as Wikinews and Wikibooks. Wikinews is fairly sparse in some topics such as Education, but the Science and Technology have a couple articles posted per month. I looked through a few topics in Wikibooks, especially the high school sciences and many of the topics had nothing entered so I will probably not use this as a reference.

Digital Curation:

A classmate started a Google Doc for our cohort to store our education related documents. I will begin adding things that I want to keep into this folder. Other teachers have offered to share their materials into this folder as well. I bet this will help us as TOC’s if we all share things from our areas.

The BC Association of Math Teachers BCAMT website has a lot of digital math resources.

Mendeley is a reference/citation management program. I have never used such a program so I tried it out to see if it makes a reference for an article I am using. I could not find such a function. Instead it just saves the reference in a list and you can add annotations. Therefore, it may be useful as a curation tool.

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In class, we ran an EdCamp in which everyone got to write up a topic they would be interested in discussing with others, and then people could migrate through discussion groups as they pleased. It was an interesting idea and I can see it being a useful thing for students brainstorming project topics or methods. It felt a little bit awkward when someone stands up abruptly and walks away but I see the value in having that personal control to guide your own learning. I have never ran breakout rooms in zoom before and I wonder how easy it is to let people transfer to different ones.