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This site links several tips and tricks for finding valuable Open Educational Resources, as well as website links to vetted OER lesson plans and resources.

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Open Educational Resources (OER): Resource Roundup

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An educators’ guide to open educational resources with information about online repositories, curriculum-sharing websites, and sources for lesson plans and activities.

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Check out this digital PD that shows you everything you need to know about keeping student data and information safe and private!

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Check out this digital PD that shows you everything you need to know about keeping student data and information safe and private!

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FREE DOWNLOAD: Data Privacy in Education, an iKeepSafe Educator Training Course

Growing concerns about student data privacy can create hurdles for K12 educators working to expand access to edtech and digital innovations. Today's teachers and administrators need to understand how student personal information is used and improve student privacy protections in order to strengthen parent confidence in digital learning.

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This FREE course includes lessons, videos, video study guides, and an online end of course quiz where educators can test their understanding. Included also is the Facilitator Guide to help administrators or teachers prepare a Student Data Privacy Professional Development Workshop for their school teams.
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Data Privacy in Education - An iKeepSafe Educator Training Course - iKeepSafe

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FREE DOWNLOAD: Data Privacy in Education, an iKeepSafe Educator Training Course Growing concerns about student data privacy can create hurdles for K12 educators working to expand access to edtech and digital innovations. Today's teachers and administrators need to understand how student personal information is used and improve student privacy protections in order to strengthen parent ...

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Want to create OER to share with other educators? Check out this link!

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Want to create OER to share with other educators? Check out this link!

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Open Author helps you build and publish Open Educational Resources for you and for the benefit of educators and learners everywhere.

Learn more about creating OER

Groups provides a flexible environment to organize, create, share, and discuss resources with others in your network. Collaborate with group members, tag and add resources to shared folders, create your own collections, all within a public or private group.

Groups

Search through collections curated by our digital librarians

Collections

Common Core resources organized for your needs

Common Core

Hubs

A Custom Resource Center

Projects, districts, states, and initiatives make use of Hubs to bring groups of educators together to create, organize, and share OER collections that meet their common goals. Explore Hubs

Microsites

Custom Digital Libraries

Microsites are custom, flexible sites that include all the features available on OER Commons. Microsites allow your users to search resource collections using a custom taxonomy at a unique URL. Contact Us

Our award-winning OER Professional Learning programs support instructors and curriculum specialists to gain the necessary skills required to find, adapt, and evaluate high quality open materials.

In-person and virtual OER workshops help focus instructors to develop a "commons" mindset, to experience the benefits of open processes using the platform's tools, collaborative features, and workflows. This can include using Open Author for creating, remixing, and publishing shared curriculum.

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How to Search OER Commons

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OER Commons is a dynamic digital library and network. Explore open education resources and join our network of educators dedicated to curriculum improvement.

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Your lessons, your materials all together on iPad. Teachers can create and manage courses and students can experience it all from the iTunes U app.

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Better Sharing, Brighter Future

"Twenty Years of Creative Commons (in Sixty Seconds)" by Ryan Junell and Glenn Otis Brown for Creative Commons is licensed via CC BY 4.0 and includes adaptations of the multiple open and public domain works. View full licensing and attribution information about all works included in the video on Flickr.

Creative Commons is an international nonprofit organization that empowers people to grow and sustain the thriving commons of shared knowledge and culture we need to address the world's most pressing challenges and create a brighter future for all.

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The nonprofit behind the licenses and tools the world uses to share

For over 20 years, Creative Commons has supported a global movement built on a belief in the power of open access to knowledge and creativity. From Wikipedia to the Smithsonian, organizations and individuals rely on our work to share billions of historic images, scientific articles, cultural artifacts, educational resources, music, and more!

Wikipedia

55+ million articles

Every one of Wikipedia's 55 million plus articles are shared openly and freely using a CC license.

The Met

492,000+ images

All images of public-domain works in the Met's collection are openly available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0).

Khan Academy

100,000+ lessons

Many of the lessons found on Khan Academy are openly licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA.

Wikipedia

55+ million articles

Every one of Wikipedia's 55 million plus articles are shared openly and freely using a CC license.

The Met

492,000+ images

All images of public-domain works in the Met's collection are openly available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0).

Khan Academy

100,000+ lessons

Many of the lessons found on Khan Academy are openly licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA.

Wikipedia

55+ million articles

Every one of Wikipedia's 55 million plus articles are shared openly and freely using a CC license.

The Met

492,000+ images

All images of public-domain works in the Met's collection are openly available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0).

Khan Academy

100,000+ lessons

Many of the lessons found on Khan Academy are openly licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA.

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Cropped, Open Culture Strategic Workshop by Filipa Alfama, CC BY 4.0

One year after Creative Commons (CC) hosted an exploratory Open Culture Roundtable, in Lisbon, Portugal, which initiated the Towards a Recommendation on Open Culture (TAROC) global initiative, nearly 50 stakeholders from all continents gathered again for a strategic workshop, in Lisbon in May 2024. In this blog post, we share a snapshot of key highlights.

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Cropped, Open Culture Strategic Workshop by Filipa Alfama, CC BY 4.0

One year after Creative Commons (CC) hosted an exploratory Open Culture Roundtable, in Lisbon, Portugal, which initiated the Towards a Recommendation on Open Culture (TAROC) global initiative, nearly 50 stakeholders from all continents gathered again for a strategic workshop, in Lisbon in May 2024. In this blog post, we share a snapshot of key highlights.

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Le Sortie de l'opéra en l'an 2000 by A. Robida - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division - Public Domain.

" An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe. Plate XXXI. ". By Thomas Wright. Public Domain

" Community Needs Care" by Camila Leão for Fine Acts x OBI is licensed via https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.

CC staff photos are licensed under CC BY 4.0. Gratitude to Sara Jordan Photography.

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Creative Commons is an international nonprofit organization that empowers people to grow and sustain the thriving commons of shared knowledge and culture we need to address the world's most pressing challenges and create a brighter future for all.

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Top 10 Tips for Preventing Cyberbullying

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Top 10 Tips for Preventing Cyberbullying

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Check out these Brainpop Lessons on Digital Citizenship!

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Check out these Brainpop Lessons on Digital Citizenship!

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A collection of Digital Citizenship resources for grades 3-8, including animated movies, quizzes, activities, and learning games plus lesson ideas for educators.

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Teaching Kids about their Digital Footprint

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Teaching Kids about their Digital Footprint

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Follow the Digital Trail (2015 - OLD VERSION)

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Teach Students about what information they can share safely

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Teach Students about what information they can share safely

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Berger, Tom (2018). The Uncertain Future of OER. Retrieved from   https://www.edutopia.org/article/uncertain-future-oer

Depaolis, K., & Williford, A. (2015). The nature and prevalence of cyber victimization   among elementary school children. Child & Youth Care Forum, 44(3), 377-393.

Edutopia. (2015). Open educational resources (OER): Resource roundup. Retrieved from   https://www.edutopia.org/open-educational-resources-guide

Farrow, R. (2016). A Framework for the Ethics of Open Education. Open Praxis, 8(2),   93-  109.

Morgan, H. (2013). Malicious use of technology: What schools, parents, and teachers can do to   prevent cyberbullying. Childhood Education, 89(3), 146–151.