Week 1: Introduce yourself and your classroom need (3 March)
For discussion in the Google Group
- Introduce yourself and why you are here. What grade and subject do you teach? Where do you live?
- What is your classroom or educational resource need? What problem are you trying to solve, if any? What questions do you have? Name the topic you need help with teaching, or the educational resource you need help improving
Your task for the week:
(due Sunday, 9 March)
- Look out for an introductory email. Respond with your name, profession/field, and whereabouts.
- Complete Task 1 of the Get CC Savvy challenge: Copyright and Creative Commons are friends.
- Choose a topic you want to work on in this course: Either pick a specific resource you would like to supplement (eg. a textbook chapter), or decide more generally on a section in your curriculum you'd like to make more fun for your students. (If you're stuck, try Task 1 of Teach Someone Something with Open Content.)
- Read about Communicating in this course and register for a Wordpress account if you don't already have a blog. Post your Wordpress username below so I can add you as an author to the cc4k12 blog. If you already have a blog, post a link to it below!
Optional
- Share your Twitter handle below so I can add you to the @cc4k12 Twitter course participant list.
- Contribute to an international research project and help us understand more about the use of online resources! Find out more and participate here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CCK12_User_Jan14
Additional resources:
- "Mr. Mayo’s Class Integrates CC, Skypes with Lawrence Lessig" -- a 7th grade teacher's experience with integrating CC education into his classroom
- New to P2PU? Watch this video to get acquainted with how it works:
About P2PU from Karen Fasimpaur on Vimeo.