In discussing licensing options for open education items, I suggest that the CC BY license is in many ways the most open license. While share alike sounds like a great option, because it prompts sharing down the road, it is
Wikis – Building content vs. displaying and using it
In education, we often run into objections to wiki-based content because of the potential for objectionable content. This kind of problem mostly stems from spam, and you don’t have to spend much time in wikis to see some pretty awful
Sight word videos
I am working on creating some sight word videos from the word lists at FreeReading. (If you haven’t seen this site, it is a phenomenal resources for early literacy.)Before I crank out more of these, I’m looking for input from
Quotes about OER
I finally got around to redoing the home page for this site, and in doing so, I put together this gif of quotes I think express what OER is all about. (You may need to wait a second or so
Kids dictionary update
For those of you interested in the progress on the open kids dictionary project, we are moving ahead, and so I thought I’d give you a quick update: Starting point — After reviewing many open dictionary sources out there, we