Unit 3, Activity 1

Unit 3, Activity 1: Review OER Commons Platform

To get started in planning to submit your own lesson plan to the OER Commons platform let's review a bit.

1. Sign in to your OER Commons account.

2. Click on your profile picture in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Here you'll find My Items, My Groups, My Hubs, etc.

3. Click into My Items to take a look at what you have saved from past searches. Once you begin adding a lesson plan, you will be able to return to it here and work on it as many times as necessary until it is ready to be published. Even when the lesson plan status changes, it will always appear in your My Items list.

4. In My Groups click into Reaching Out and you will see three folders: Course 2, Course 4, and a new one for Course 6. Take a look at the lesson plan Create a Superhero in the Course 6 folder. I created this lesson plan, submitted it to be published, and once I received the email from OER Commons that it was indeed published, I saved it to this folder. You'll be asked in Unit 4 to save your published lesson plan here too.

5. Return to the home page, view the video "Introducing Open Author" you will find when you scroll down to the middle of the page. (You can skip the second half about remixing.)

6. Return to the top of your screen and click on the green ADD OER button on the right. You will be adding your lesson plan using Open Author. For right now, just click on Learn more about creating OER at the bottom center of the page and scroll through the information. If you clicked on Create Resource or Create on any of these screens and opened the lesson plan template, don't worry you can use it or delete it later, It will appear in your My Items list as an empty draft. Now, move on to Unit 3, Activity 2 for your next steps.