Module 5, Activity #1: Introducing Your Favorite Course (Google Slide Activity)

Learning Objectives

• Contemplate intellectual humility in your own practice. (i.e., recognize their own intellectual or experiential limitations).
• Examine how you might equip students with an understanding of their rights involving their intellectual property.

Assignment Overview

Renewable assignments (as discussed in Module 3) have the potential to engage, empower, and help students start to develop their own voice and sense of confidence as contributors to their scholarly disciplines. This is exciting! It’s also essential that as educators we help them understand how to leverage and protect their own rights as well as how to respect the rights of others before fully engaging in this work. This activity will help you build upon the knowledge and skills developed in Module 1 (Hallmarks of OER) so that you can then help your students make informed decisions as they navigate these topics that are likely to be new to them.

As you work through this activity, think about asserting your own agency. Can you identify places in the assignment where we’ve purposefully included opportunities for you to opt out or participate on your own terms?

 Guidelines

1. First, read these three articles: 5 R’s for Open Pedagogy Links to an external site.by Rajiv Jhangiani; OER and Student Privacy Links to an external site.by Nora Almeida; and Affordances, challenges, and impact of open pedagogy: Examining students’ voice Links to an external site. by Evrim Baran & Dana AlZoubi.
   • Also skim the Code of Best Practice in Fair Use for Open Educational Resources Links to an external site. (especially the sections on Applying This Code Links to an external site., Principle B "Including inserts for the purpose of illustration" Links to an external site., and Signaling Fair Use Links to an external site.). After you’ve read these articles, we’d like you to participate in the following activity, where you should focus on applying specific practices gleaned from the readings.
     
     
2. Spend 2-4 minutes creating an introduction to your favorite course from your own educational experiences. You could write a paragraph, draw a picture, create a collage, or use any other medium to explain the course and why it was so inspiring. The point of this activity is to take an original, creative nugget from your brain and put it into a tangible, fixed medium for others to see. 
   
   
3. Open the Google Slide activity Links to an external site. and claim a blank slide as your own.
   
   
4. Add your introduction to the slide and supplement it with images from your lived experience that illustrate the topics, ideas, and experiences that made the course so inspiring. If your favorite course was on Shakespeare, include an image from a play you read in the course. If you were inspired by engaging with a local community organization, include an image of that organization's work. Choose an image or images that clearly illustrates the course and helps a reader really understand why that course was so inspiring for you. You can pull images from databases of openly-licensed materials such as the Creative Commons Openverse site Links to an external site. and/or images from popular sites like Google Images in reliance on the Code of Best Practice Links to an external site.. You can reference Slide 3 as an example. 
   
   
5. After you’ve added original content on your slide, add a text box to give your contribution a title.
   
   
6. Next, add another text box and include: “by [your name]” credit. You do not need to use your real name if you wish. You may use a pseudonym or simply write “Anonymous.” (Reflect back on the reading about OER and student privacy.) Make sure to signal any inserts you included under an open license using the TASL framework Links to an external site. and any images included under fair use with a statement such as "this illustration, from [SOURCE] is included on the basis of fair use as described in the Code of Best Practice.”
   
   
7. Think about if you were to share this content more broadly, how might you wish others to be able to interact with it? Remember, with all Creative Commons licenses you retain your copyright and also grant others certain additional permissions. If you would rather keep standard copyright protection, that is fine too! (Ask yourself, do you need to add the © if you choose to retain traditional copyright?) Navigate to Slide 2 and select one of the license options to assign to your content. Copy and paste (don’t cut and paste!) your choice anywhere onto your slide. 
   
   
8. Still on Slide 2, in the Notes field, click on the link and use the Attribution Builder Links to an external site. to generate an attribution for your slide. You can copy and paste the link at the bottom (URL, not embed code)
   
   
9. Copy and paste the attribution to the bottom of your slide. Again, you can look at slide 3 for an example.
   
   
10. In the speaker’s notes box of your slide, write a brief explanation of what license you selected, why, and what others may or may not do with your work under the license agreement. If you chose to retain standard copyright, explain what others cannot do without your permission. 

Materials, Technology, and Technical Support

• Google Slide Activity Link Links to an external site.

References:

Almeida, N. (2019, Jan. 18). OER and Student Privacy. Library Buzz: News from the City Tech Library.

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/library/oer-and-student-privacy/ Links to an external site.   This resource is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License Links to an external site..

Baran. E, & AlZoubi, D. (2020, May 18). Affordances, challenges, and impact of open pedagogy: Examining students' voices. Distance Education, 41 (2), 230 - 244.   Links to an external site.

https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2020.1757409 Links to an external site. 

Jacob, M., Jaszi, P., Adler, P., & Cross, W. (2021). Code of Best Practice in Fair Use for Open Educational Resources.

https://cmsimpact.org/code/open-educational-resources/ Links to an external site.

Jhangiani, R. (2019, April 11).  5 R’s for Open Pedagogy. https://thatpsychprof.com/5rs-for-open-pedagogy/ Links to an external site.

This resource is licensed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International Links to an external site.License Links to an external site..

Need help using Google Slides? If so, please review the following page: Google Slides Training and Help Links to an external site.

This course content is offered under a CC AttributionLinks to an external site. license. Content in this course can be considered under this license unless otherwise noted.