Make-IT Place Advanced
Overview
A primer on how to use The Make-IT Place for librarians, teachers, and parents.
What is OER?
What is OER?
According to Creative Commons, OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.
How do Libraries/Librarians Fit In?
According to IMLS, libraries are focused on increasing access, which includes creating opportunities for users to obtain high-quality OER, including textbooks and other materials.
Lifelong-learning has long been a tenet of public libraries. OER offers those opportunities.
Because of their training, librarians are among the best suited to find, evaluate, and curate OER in a meaningful and approachable way.
Introduction to OER Commons
What is OER Commons?
Platform for Make-IT Place
Created by ISKME
Houses and curates thousands of OER
First public library systems on the platform
Opportunity to create, share, and remix existing content for public librarians
Benefits of an account
Create An Account
Save resources in your personal folders.
Organize folders based on your preference.
Can join groups and hubs based on interest.
All resources you've authored, both published and draft are here.
All resources you've saved are here.
Create your own groups.
Using OER Commons Advanced Search
Using Advanced Search
Limit by subject area.
Educational use
Material Type (usually recommend Activity/Lab for libraries)
Can limit by age/education at a high or granular level
Activity: Create an account and save resources
Create an Account and Save Some Resources
Create an account.
Create a folder in your items called "Circuits"
Search for activities for middle schoolers about circuits.
Review and save two resources on circuits to your circuits folder.
Make-IT Place Hub
The Make-IT Place Hub
What is a Hub?
A hub is a place where entities can bring together resources that meet their specific needs in a single, branded location.
Why do we use a hub for Make-IT Place?
Make-IT Place aims to be a source for librarians, students, teachers, parents, and other caregivers who are looking for STEAM activities that are easy to implement.
How are Hubs different than groups?
A hub is a branded, curated collection of OER that has been selected by a dedicated team with tags and additional meta-data.
A group can be created by anyone and can be an informal collection of resources or can be organized into folders/hierarchies.
Make-IT Place Collections
9 Collections in Make-IT Place
3D Printing
- Resources for making 3D prints
- Using 3D printers in programs
- Designing 3D models
Art & Design
- Using creative software
- Design principles and theory
- Artistic projects
Computing & IoT
- Computer hardware projects (e.g. Raspberry Pi)
- Internet of Things projects using Arduinos etc
- Coding projects
Environment & Sustainability
- Gardening projects
- Earth and environmental science
- Composting and biomes
Robots & Robotics
- Simple robotics projects
- Line drawing robots
- LEGO robots
Space
- NASA projects
- Solar eclipses
- Astronaut/space life
STEM/Maker
- Basic chemistry projects
- Cooking chemistry
- Building vehicles using balloons/household items
Stay-At-Home Projects
- Projects across disciplines that can be done at home
XReality
- Virtual Reality activities
- Designing VR experiences
- VR tools
Make-IT Place Groups
Make-IT Place Groups
In addition to collections, Make-IT Place also has subject specific groups where users can create and add their own OER and access discussion boards for collaboration.
Currently there are 5 groups available on Make-IT Place. One is a closed group for Youth Service Coordinators which requires administrative aproval to join. The other groups are open and available to anyone to access.
Contributing to Make-IT Place
Make-IT Place Collaboration & Contribution
Contribute OER to groups
Contribute OER to the Commons
Contribute A Web Resource
Adding a Web Resource
Not usually original content (but can be; e.g. public google doc that you've created)
Typically a website
Needs to be approved by ISKME staff to be included in the collections.
Contribute an Open Author Resource
Adding an OER
Can be original or remixed content
Examples:
Outline for a program
How-to video for a program
Storytime resources
Can be added to personal items or groups
Needs to be approved by ISKME staff to be included in the collections.