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One of the most persistent questions

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that educators have about open educational

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resources has to do with where to find

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them and how to know if something

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is released as an open resource.

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Since everything is copyrighted by default

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under United States copyright law,

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if you find something that is not clearly

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labeled, you generally have

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to assume that it's copyrighted.

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So, we can really only use open educational

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resources as open educational resources

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if they are labeled in that way.

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So, to help you with this,

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we have provided some tools to help you

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find open educational resources

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more easily here on our website.

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We have a list of different types

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of open educational resources.

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I'll just look at a few of these.

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The first that I like to start

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with is Wikimedia Commons.

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This is a library or repository of media

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that Wikipedia uses to store all

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of its images, video, and audio.

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So, if you come to Wikimedia Commons

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and type in, for instance, polar bear,

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because I'm looking for an image

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of a polar bear,

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here I receive lots of different results.

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If I click on one of these results,

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I'll get a preview,

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and down here in the bottom left,

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it'll show me the license.

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Now, this is a CC BY 2.5 license.

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If you don't understand what that means,

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you can click on it, but really

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don't worry about it at this point.

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This is just meant to be a very quick

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way for you to see what the license is.

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If you want more information about this,

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you can click More Details,

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and it will take you to the images page.

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Then if you scroll down,

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you'll have a licensing section

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that tells you what you're free to do.

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So, for this image, we are free to share it

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and remix it, as long as we attribute it,

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and as long as we share alike.

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So, we can use this image in any

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of our creations as long as we

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attribute it, so we give

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the author proper attribution,

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and we share it again.

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That means that we could

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sell this image if we want.

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That's not prohibited.

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Now, if you look over here on the right

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side, you have a link

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to use this file on the web.

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If you click on that,

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you have an attribution

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statement here that you

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can copy and paste.

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And so, this can help address

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that attribution requirement.

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So, you can find millions of

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pictures on Wikimedia Commons.

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Another great place to go

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for pictures is Flickr.

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Flickr is a social image sharing site

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where people take pictures and upload

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their pictures, but when people upload

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pictures, they have the option

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of labeling them for reuse.

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So, you can find pictures that have been

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labeled for reuse by going to

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flickr.Com/creativecommons.

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Here you'll see all the different

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Creative Commons licenses,

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and if you want to know more about these

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licenses, you can go to creativecommons.org

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to understand exactly

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what you can do with each.

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But under each of these licenses,

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you will see millions of photos that have

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been released under that license.

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So, for instance,

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the attribution license,

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or the CC BY license, has over

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58 million images on Twitter.

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So, that means that we are free to use

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these images for any purpose that

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we want, as long as we cite the author.

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Another great site

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for educators is OER Commons.

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This has all kinds of open educational

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resources and really just serves as

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a portal to open educational resources.

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So, if I click Browse All,

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I can then go by subject area or grade

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level or by material type and find

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something that's useful for me.

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So, whereas most open educational resources

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you find on the web are articles or images

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or audio files,

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OER Commons expands that to include more

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educational-type

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products like lesson plans.

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Also, there's good old Google.

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So, I think most people will use a search

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engine for starting their

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search for resources.

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So, say we type in polar bear,

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and then we click Images to just

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see the images of polar bears.

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Here we get lots of images.

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Lots of these may be really appealing

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for us, but the problem is some

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of these may be copyrighted.

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So, if I come over here and click

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Search Tools,

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I can have a dropdown for usage rights,

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and here I can choose to just show things

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that can be reused,

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things that can be reused

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with modification, and so forth.

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So, if I click Reuse with Modification,

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I still get lots

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of different image results.

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If I click on these,

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I can see where the image comes from,

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and I could go view

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the image or visit the page.

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Notice that many of these results are

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still coming from Wikipedia

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or Wikimedia Commons.

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Then the final resource I'd

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like to show you is CK-12.

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This is a free online textbook library.

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So, people have created textbooks

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and they share them and they are a place

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for you to come and copy these textbooks,

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take pieces out, just use

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the pieces that you want.

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So, if you scroll down on the main page,

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you see lots of different subject areas.

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So, if I click Arithmetic under Math,

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I can go to specific sections,

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and these are meant to be

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chapters or sub-chapters of a textbook

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focused on a specific topic.

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But there's also a FlexBook Textbooks

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tab up here.

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When you click on that,

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you have entire textbooks of content.

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So, if I want a grade six textbook,

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I can just click on this,

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and this will have

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open educational content

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that's been created

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and organized to address the needs

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of a sixth grade classroom.

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Over here you'll notice

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that I can download it as a PDF.

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I can download it as

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an eBook format as well.

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I can also add these

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to my own FlexBook textbook.

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So, CK-12 allows you to create your own

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textbook pulling from pieces

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of different textbooks that are in CK-12.

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All the content in CK-12 is released

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under Creative Commons license.

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That is clearly stated in the PDF when you

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download it, but also notice down here

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at the very bottom,

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there's a Creative Commons NC license,

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which means that you are free to use this

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content for anything that you want

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as long as you're not selling it.