As Conewago Valley School District advances its open educational resource (OER) adoption and implementation plan, Leveraging its teaching and learning network and digital library, OER Commons (oercommons.org) launched in 2007. This is the third of three custom module trainings that will provide participants with an introduction to OER practice and the value add, highlighting successful state and district use cases. Followed by a demonstration and discussion of how to navigate OER Commons and create collaborative workflows to identify resources, assess their quality using rubrics, and organize materials for use. Participants will get an opportunity to practice using OER tools and begin to design their plans for OER implementation, specific to their immediate OER needs. An important outcome for educators will be a shared understanding of OER practice and specific next steps for OER adoption in their work. We have designed these modules to first spark the learner's interest in the topics covered and then dig deeper into the content through presentations, storytelling, and demonstrations of the tools. We will offer opportunities for learners to practice exploring the resources and tools, and reflect on how they might use them in their work.
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This is a document to show students how to use coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions and sentence transitions for high-intermediate and advanced level ESL students. This is a supplemental resouce for grammar and composition classes. The aim of this worksheet is to show students how to combine sentences as well as understand the rules of punctuation. The examples in the table at the top of page 1 demonstrate the correct use of punctuation. Each column in the table below the error correction exercises on page 1 follow the same punctuation rules as the ones in the table at the top of the document. Pages 2-3 allow students to practice combining sentences with a variety of connectors in relation to the book The Little Prince. Learning Objectives:Use transitions and other signal words to achieve coherence and clarity within the structure of the essay.Demonstrate sentence variety and grammatical accuracy at a high-intermediate/low-advanced level.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Homework/Assignment
- Lesson
- Unit of Study
- Author:
- Chris Howe
- Date Added:
- 05/10/2024
For those of you who have ever delivered copyright training, you know it can often be a rather dry subject, that we often have difficulties persuading colleagues to attend. Well that will all be set to change, once you start thinking more creatively about copyright education. Instead of focusing on aspects of the law and thinking about what copyright might stop people from doing, our game encourages them to focus on four positive aspects to copyright. it is based on working in teams to tackle a number of common scenarios. We are looking to add new scenarios to the game all the time, to make it relevant for different types of staff and hope to start working on a version for PhD students.
The four ‘suits’ in the game are:
- Copyright works – what is the material that someone wants to use? Is it protected by copyright and how is it defined in the law?
- Usages, or what the law calls the ‘restricted acts’ that are the exclusive right of the copyright holder. How does what you want to do with a work map onto the usages as defined in the law?
- Licenses – how do licences work? What licences are available and how might they be used to enable you to go beyond what the law might allow
- Exceptions – what copyright exceptions exist in the UK and how can you make better use of them
- Subject:
- Intellectual Property Law
- Law
- Material Type:
- Game
- Interactive
- Author:
- Chris Morrison
- Jane Secker
- Date Added:
- 11/20/2024
This book is the sixth of seven books which introduces the basic principles of accounting. This book introduces managerial accounting, with a primary focus on internal business reporting, decision making, planning, strategy, budgets, and cost control. Cost-volume-profit analysis, variable cost, fixed costs, mixed costs are introduced. Break-even analysis, contributions margin, target income calculations, and sensitivity analysis are all discussed in detail. In addition, product costs, job costing, process costing, and activity-based costing are introduced. Note this is copyrighted, but the PDF is freely available on Cool4ed and may be linked out to from the LMS.
- Subject:
- Accounting
- Business and Communication
- Material Type:
- Textbook
- Author:
- Chris Skousen
- Larry Walther
- Date Added:
- 12/23/2021
Students learn about the physical force of linear momentum movement in a straight line by investigating collisions. They learn an equation that engineers use to describe momentum. Students also investigate the psychological phenomenon of momentum; they see how the "big mo" of the bandwagon effect contributes to the development of fads and manias, and how modern technology and mass media accelerate and intensify the effect.
- Subject:
- Applied Science
- Engineering
- Physical Science
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- TeachEngineering
- Provider Set:
- TeachEngineering
- Author:
- Ben Heavner
- Chris Yakacki
- Denise Carlson
- Malinda Schaefer Zarske
- Date Added:
- 09/18/2014
This course is an introductory exploration of documentary film theory and production, focusing on documentaries about science, engineering, and related fields. Students engage in digital video production as well as social and media analysis of science documentaries. Readings are drawn from social studies of science as well as from documentary film theory. The courses uses documentary video making as a tool to explore the worlds of science and engineering, as well as a tool for thinking analytically about media itself and the social worlds in which science is embedded. The course includes a hands-on lab component devoted to digital video production, in addition to classroom lectures and in-class film screenings.
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Applied Science
- Arts and Humanities
- Engineering
- Graphic Arts
- Social Science
- Visual Arts
- Material Type:
- Full Course
- Provider Set:
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- Author:
- Boebel, Chris
- Walley, Christine
- Date Added:
- 09/01/2012
Software Carpentry lesson that teaches how to use databases and SQL In the late 1920s and early 1930s, William Dyer, Frank Pabodie, and Valentina Roerich led expeditions to the Pole of Inaccessibility in the South Pacific, and then onward to Antarctica. Two years ago, their expeditions were found in a storage locker at Miskatonic University. We have scanned and OCR the data they contain, and we now want to store that information in a way that will make search and analysis easy. Three common options for storage are text files, spreadsheets, and databases. Text files are easiest to create, and work well with version control, but then we would have to build search and analysis tools ourselves. Spreadsheets are good for doing simple analyses, but they don’t handle large or complex data sets well. Databases, however, include powerful tools for search and analysis, and can handle large, complex data sets. These lessons will show how to use a database to explore the expeditions’ data.
- Subject:
- Applied Science
- Computer Science
- Information Science
- Mathematics
- Measurement and Data
- Material Type:
- Module
- Provider:
- The Carpentries
- Author:
- Amy Brown
- Andrew Boughton
- Andrew Kubiak
- Avishek Kumar
- Ben Waugh
- Bill Mills
- Brian Ballsun-Stanton
- Chris Tomlinson
- Colleen Fallaw
- Dan Michael Heggø
- Daniel Suess
- Dave Welch
- David W Wright
- Deborah Gertrude Digges
- Donny Winston
- Doug Latornell
- Erin Alison Becker
- Ethan Nelson
- Ethan P White
- François Michonneau
- George Graham
- Gerard Capes
- Gideon Juve
- Greg Wilson
- Ioan Vancea
- Jake Lever
- James Mickley
- John Blischak
- JohnRMoreau@gmail.com
- Jonah Duckles
- Jonathan Guyer
- Joshua Nahum
- Kate Hertweck
- Kevin Dyke
- Louis Vernon
- Luc Small
- Luke William Johnston
- Maneesha Sane
- Mark Stacy
- Matthew Collins
- Matty Jones
- Mike Jackson
- Morgan Taschuk
- Patrick McCann
- Paula Andrea Martinez
- Pauline Barmby
- Piotr Banaszkiewicz
- Raniere Silva
- Ray Bell
- Rayna Michelle Harris
- Rémi Emonet
- Rémi Rampin
- Seda Arat
- Sheldon John McKay
- Sheldon McKay
- Stephen Davison
- Thomas Guignard
- Trevor Bekolay
- lorra
- slimlime
- Date Added:
- 03/20/2017
Why do objects like wood float in water? Does it depend on size? Create a custom object to explore the effects of mass and volume on density. Can you discover the relationship? Use the scale to measure the mass of an object, then hold the object under water to measure its volume. Can you identify all the mystery objects?
- Subject:
- Physical Science
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Simulation
- Provider:
- University of Colorado Boulder
- Provider Set:
- PhET Interactive Simulations
- Author:
- Archie Paulson
- Carl Wieman
- Chris Malley
- Jonathan Olson
- Kathy Perkins
- Kelly Lancaster
- Noah Podolefsky
- Sam Reid
- Trish Loeblein
- Wendy Adams
- Date Added:
- 02/16/2011
Why do objects like wood float in water? Does it depend on size? Create a custom object to explore the effects of mass and volume on density. Can you discover the relationship? Use the scale to measure the mass of an object, then hold the object under water to measure its volume. Can you identify all the mystery objects?
- Subject:
- Physical Science
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Simulation
- Provider:
- University of Colorado Boulder
- Provider Set:
- PhET Interactive Simulations
- Author:
- Archie Paulson
- Carl Wieman
- Chris Malley
- Jonathan Olson
- Kathy Perkins
- Kelly Lancaster
- Noah Podolefsky
- Patricia Loblein
- Sam Reid
- Wendy Adams
- Date Added:
- 09/01/2010
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- Subject:
- Life Science
- Zoology
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Provider:
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
- Provider Set:
- Animal Diversity Web
- Author:
- Chris Gordon (author), University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
- Date Added:
- 03/07/2005
Students create model elevator carriages and calibrate them, similar to the work of design and quality control engineers. Students use measurements from rotary encoders to recreate the task of calibrating elevators for a high-rise building. They translate the rotations from an encoder to correspond to the heights of different floors in a hypothetical multi-story building. Students also determine the accuracy of their model elevators in getting passengers to their correct destinations.
- Subject:
- Applied Science
- Architecture and Design
- Engineering
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- TeachEngineering
- Provider Set:
- TeachEngineering
- Author:
- Chris Leung
- Paul Phamduy
- Date Added:
- 09/18/2014
Explore tunneling splitting in double well potentials. This classic problem describes many physical systems, including covalent bonds, Josephson junctions, and two-state systems such as spin 1/2 particles and ammonia molecules.
- Subject:
- Physical Science
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Simulation
- Provider:
- University of Colorado Boulder
- Provider Set:
- PhET Interactive Simulations
- Author:
- Carl Wieman
- Chris Malley
- Kathy Perkins
- Sam McKagan
- Date Added:
- 10/04/2006
This is a discussion board prompt that we have used for class introductions in our online ESL classes and in our in-person classes. It begins with a video on language learning strategies and asks students to introduce themselves and discuss their own strategies.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Languages
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson
- Author:
- Chris Hastings
- Linda Patterson
- Margie Dernaika
- Janet Rosenthal
- Jessica Miller
- Rachel Mixson
- Date Added:
- 12/12/2021
Being able to step voltages to a higher value and step voltages down to a lower value is one of the benefits of alternating current. This book will explain how this is possible through transformers with a focus on single phase.
- Subject:
- Career and Technical Education
- Environmental Studies
- Material Type:
- Textbook
- Provider:
- Clemson University
- Author:
- Ashley Jacoby
- Becky Tugman
- Brandon Perdue
- Brian Weaver
- Chris Matlashewski
- Conor Coleman
- Drew Belsha
- Federico Martinez
- Greg Goines
- Katie Dzoba
- Katie Yacu
- Kelly Berk
- Lauren Gohs
- Laurie Barton
- Maclaine Hanvey
- Nicole Barber
- Peyton Sutley
- Randy Fang
- Samuel Garrson
- Savannah Shope
- Sydney Worrrall
- Tyler Mandel
- Victoria Kellogg
- Yang Wu
- Zach Harley
- Date Added:
- 08/07/2021
Economics in U.S. History is comprised of seven lessons and is designed to introduce students to basic economic concepts through analyzing diverse perspectives on the subject. Students will be engaged in a dynamic, interactive, and constructivist process of exploring media representations of economic issues in U.S. history. Such issues include the free market, industrialization, and The Living Wage Campaign. The kit will teach students to identify the Ě_Ě_ÝlanguageĚ_Ě_ĺ of construction of different media forms and to analyze and evaluate the meaning of mediated messages about economics. This kit was designed for 8th grade U.S. history, but the document-decoding approach can be adapted for and used from middle school through high school.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Economics
- History
- Social Science
- U.S. History
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Diagram/Illustration
- Homework/Assignment
- Lesson Plan
- Reading
- Teaching/Learning Strategy
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- Ithaca College
- Provider Set:
- Project Look Sharp
- Author:
- Chris Sperry
- Cindy Kramer
- Date Added:
- 05/09/2013
Students act as Mars exploratory rover engineers. They evaluate rover equipment options and determine what parts fit in a provided NASA budget. With a given parts list, teams use these constraints to design for their rover. The students build and display their edible rover at a concluding design review.
- Subject:
- Applied Science
- Engineering
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- TeachEngineering
- Provider Set:
- TeachEngineering
- Author:
- Chris Yakacki
- Daria Kotys-Schwartz
- Denise W. Carlson
- Geoffrey Hill
- Janet Yowell
- Malinda Schaefer Zarske
- Date Added:
- 10/14/2015
Students act as Mars exploratory rover engineers, designing, building and displaying their edible rovers to a design review. To begin, they evaluate rover equipment and material options to determine which parts might fit in their given NASA budget. With provided parts and material lists, teams analyze their design options and use their findings to design their rovers.
- Subject:
- Applied Science
- Engineering
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- TeachEngineering
- Provider Set:
- TeachEngineering
- Author:
- Ben Sprague
- Chris Yakacki
- Daria Kotys-Schwartz
- Denise W. Carlson
- Geoffrey Hill
- Janet Yowell
- Malinda Schaefer Zarske
- Date Added:
- 10/14/2015
The purpose of this activity is to recreate the classic egg-drop experiment with an analogy to the Mars rover landing. The concept of terminal velocity will be introduced, and students will perform several velocity calculations. Also, students will have to design and build their lander within a pre-determined budget to help reinforce a real-world design scenario.
- Subject:
- Applied Science
- Astronomy
- Engineering
- Physical Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- TeachEngineering
- Provider Set:
- TeachEngineering
- Author:
- Chris Yakacki
- Daria Kotys-Schwartz
- Geoffrey Hill
- Janet Yowell
- Malinda Schaefer Zarske
- Date Added:
- 10/14/2015
This book is not intended for budding mathematicians. It was created for a math program in which most of the students in upper-level math classes are planning to become secondary school teachers. For such students, conventional abstract algebra texts are practically incomprehensible, both in style and in content. Faced with this situation, we decided to create a book that our students could actually read for themselves. In this way we have been able to dedicate class time to problem-solving and personal interaction rather than rehashing the same material in lecture format.
- Subject:
- Education
- Mathematics
- Material Type:
- Textbook
- Author:
- Chris Thron
- Justin Hill
- Date Added:
- 11/18/2021
This textbook is intended for use in introductory Entrepreneurship classes at the undergraduate level. Due to the wide range of audiences and course approaches, the book is designed to be as flexible as possible. Theoretical and practical aspects are presented in a balanced manner, and specific components such as the business plan are provided in multiple formats. Entrepreneurship aims to drive students toward active participation in entrepreneurial roles, and exposes them to a wide range of companies and scenarios.
- Subject:
- Business and Communication
- Material Type:
- Textbook
- Provider:
- Rice University
- Provider Set:
- OpenStax College
- Author:
- Chris Littel
- Michael Laverty
- Date Added:
- 07/12/2022