District Hub

One goal of this District Hub is to provide options and features that an district might use to organize resource creations and district member engagement for collaboration.

A hub is like having a home page where you can provide information, guidance, connect various subject groups, for members of your organization.

Audience: K-12

About

Why

In your open education resource work, do you wish to connect members and resources? Have you maxed out all you can do with a group?

A hub gives you the following features:

  • *** Connecting Members: Ability to give updates, announces, events, etc
  • *** Home: A dedicated landing page
  • *** Create Resources: List of all groups your school or district use
  • *** Bring It All Together: Groups, collections, members, etc
  • *** Share: Collections, showcase your work
  • *** And more...

Getting Started

Check out the rest of this help and demo features. If they seem interesting and helpful for your K-12 group...

Contact wiselearn@dpi.wi.gov, to let us know you're interested.

What you are seeing: Slideshow

This About section was made with a slideshow. This slideshow can also have an embedded video instead of an image.

You've just seen one feature of a hub.

Groups & Members

How do people collaborate, join a hub, and create shared resources? Groups. Join any of the groups below to become a member of this hub. Perks of membership? Stay up-to-date. Central place to get information. A home for like minded subjects and work.

Where the cool people are...

Creative Commons & Licensing

Public Domain "License"

When can I apply public domain license to my work?

Most works enter public domain because they are old.

When you work for an organization make sure that it's allowed. What you make at work belongs to the organization.

Some questions to consider:

  1. Do you own the content and is it original?
  2. Have you accounted for the platform that it's made with? For example, if you make something with Google slides, Google has a legal claim to their slides tools. If you license content on a propriety platform, be careful. You might need legal advice before doing so.

If you are curating a sharing a resource, where it's a link to a 3rd party website. Be safe and use "Some Rights Reserved". Read their terms of service first.

 

Onboarding

Our members make the world better. Here are some onboarding information to be more awesome.

Welcome

You are here because making a difference is what you are all about.

OER Best Practices

ISKME's OER Commons Teacher Training Initiative offers teachers a collaborative professional development model centered on engagement with Open Educational Resources (OER). Since 2009, ISKME has trained over 1,500 teachers from 25 countries in its program focused on collaborative innovation and social learning using open curriculum and open teacher-led approaches. In 2011, ISKME launched a Green OER Commons micro-site with Greek partner Agro-Know, delivering sustainability-related learning resources and interdisciplinary lesson plans, including a focus on STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art and Math) resources.

Creating Resources

Creating resources is easy. Some strategy consideration.

  1. Contribute to a group
  2. Just click create and use an authoring tool then share to a group

Contributing to a group means your resource will show up in the group. It won't show in your My Items list - under your profile.

We recommend the second option. Create resources within your profile. Then you can share resources to multiple groups. It is an extra step but resources will travel with your account.

See the following document to share your resources to a group.

Tools for Quality Resources

What are some tools to help make a quality resources?:

  • * Did your students engage and learned from your resources
  • * Evaluation rubrics such as equip, oer achieve, etc.
    • * What are some rubrics that your district adopted or suggest for your teachers?

When can I create a group?

Depends on use case. Nothing to stop a user from making a group.

A question would be, how do I get my group added to our hub?

An example of a possible Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).

Shared Folders

    Collections

    Collections are a showcase of what's been created on the site. They are specific to search criteria or topic. You would work with site administrator to add collections to your hub.

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    Events

    Event Section is really an open page you can enter events that are relevant for your hub members.

    Only hub administrators can add events.

    EventLocationDateWebsite
    OpenEd 2019Phoenix, AZ  
    Local TrainingGreen Bay, WI  

     

    Stay Connected

    This section in the administration screen is called a Learn About but we labeled it as Stay Connected.

    • Announcements or News are displayed below

    You should have only one of these on your hub.

    What is a hub? News, Announcement, Posted Message

    You may have landed here by accident or you came here on purpose to learn about what a hub can do for your team.

    Either way, WELCOME!

    This particular message is an example of an announcement, news bite, or a posting. Here are a few features about announcements:

    • Send to all your member
    • Only post to the hub page - is actively shown
    • Only hub administrators can make announcements