Open Content

About

As open access institutions of higher education, Maricopa Community Colleges enroll a number of students with a variety of learning styles and preferences. By finding already developed materials on the web, instructors can engage students through materials and resources offered in different modalities. This event will provide participants with a variety of resources for finding open source, royalty free, and/or creative commons online materials to easily incorporate into their classes. While sharing sites to find texts, images, audio, and video, we will also discuss issues of copyright, fair use, and creative commons liscensing. The goals of the event are to make faculty comfortable with, and knowledgeable about, a variety of websites that provide easily accessible, legally usable, and free multi-modal materials:

• Engaging in discussion about how and why these various resources can better facilitate teaching and learning.
• Offering the knowledge and experience of faculty who have incorporated multi-modal materials into their classes.
• Encouraging individual faculty, or staff, from all disciplines to critically select, review, and possibly different multi-modal materials to incorporate into their courses.

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Facilitator

Shelley Rodrigo, Ph.D., is a faculty member at Mesa Community College who wored as the campus instructional technologist for the 2007-8 academic year and is currently serving her second year as the Faculty Professional Development Coordinator. She has taught writing, film, and literature classes for 11 years as a graduate student, adjunct, and residential faculty. She has presented at institutional, local and national, disciplinary and interdisciplinary workshops about technology and writing, to include: “Keeping up with the Jetsons,” “How to examine the Virtual: Assessing and Evaluating Online Teaching and Learning,” “Designs of Distance Education: Assessing Approaches to Web-Based Writing Courses,” and “Experimental Classroom Orientation.”

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