#3 – Post your lesson plans on an open sharing site.
Many of us post lesson plans online with the intent of sharing with others. Posting lessons with an open license ensures that they can be shared (legally).
One of the sites for this is Curriki, a site for sharing lesson plans under an open license.
Another option is WIkispaces, a wiki site that includes a CC license on all content. (I use this site a lot, but one downside for lesson plans is that it’s not really a “destination” site for folks looking for lesson plans.)
Finally, regardless of where you post (or even if you just distribute in print), you can always add a CC license that tells others they can use your resources. The simplest way to do this is to just write “licensed under Creative Commons Attribution” on the site. Or if you want to get fancier, use the CC license wizard. This tool will give you a CC piece of artwork and also some code that will get your lessons into CC search engines.
Free and open sharing is great for everyone!
Thanks to Nathan Ketsdever and Steve O’Connor for the inspiration for this post.
(This is part of an on-going series on what you can do to help grow the OER movement.)