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4.2 In-Class

Using scrible to curate OER materials
Finding OER
Evaluating OER using established criteria

In this session, we will continue to search for OER resources you can use. In the at-home lesson, you learned there are open textbooks, open course materials, open videos, and open images. As you find these resources, wouldn't it be nice if you could collect them your own virtual library, tack a post-it (or multiple post-its) with notes to yourself of what you liked about the article, and even tag it with the course or topic you are considering using it in. Well, the good news, is there are tools that can help you curate or collect these resources!

While the focus of this workshop is on finding no-cost and OER materials as replacements to costly commercial course materials, it is important to remember the overall course design process, which always starts with the Student Learning Outcomes. It is recommended that you have your course syllabus on-hand as you search for your course materials.

Today, we will share with you one of the tools we recently discovered to curate resources. It is named scrible and allows you to bookmark (collect), annotate (mark up), and highlight your resources. Let's view the video below that give us a good overview of scrible.

The video is from "scrible Overview" by Scrible is licensed under the standard YouTube license and embedded as permitted by YouTube's Terms of Use

Create an educator scrible account

Let's use your hawaii.edu email for ease of use. Be sure you are logged into your email in the browser before clicking on the Google+ icon at the bottom of the page.

This video details on how scrible can annotate web pages, automatically generate a citation, save resources to your own library, and can create a bibliography.

The video "scrible Student Edition Demo by Cavan Klinsky is licensed under the standard YouTube license and embedded as permitted by YouTube's Terms of Use

In class, we will use scrible as you find OER resources and we will add them to your library. We will also use the annotation and tagging features so you will be able to find these resources again when you need to further evaluate them or use them.

Scrible is a good curating tool for you to collect course materials. However, if you are looking for a tool for your students to annotate pdf files, scrible will not work on pdfs. One recommendation is to use Kami, a free Chrome extension to markup pdf files. Since many textbooks come in pdf format, you may direct your students to use this free and easy-to-use tool.

Activity 1: Using scrible to curate your OER

Individually, you will be using scrible to annotate web pages, automatically generate a citation, save resources to your own library, and can create a bibliography, and collect resources.

highlight text
add a note
bookmark resource
review your scrible library

Activity 2: Finding OER

Find OER that you might potentially use in your class. You may work individually or in groups.
Suggested OER sites to use in your search include:
Your facilitators will be on hand to help you locate resources.