Welcome to the OER Template for BSAA! Here you will find step-by-step instructions for creating your OER on the OpenLab.
Looking for instructions for posting basic content? Visit this link.
When drafting your post, keep this template open in another tab or window so you can refer back to it!
[BLURB] Brief overview of the lesson, learning outcomes, themes, topic, potential disciplines, etc.
Co-authors: list your cohort members here! Everyone gets credit for their work!
Keywords:
- Here you can choose key themes and terms to highlight from your OER
Sample Blurb:
Our OER focuses on contemporary jazz and experimental music in Brazil, engaging with questions around Blackness and aesthetics, post- and neocolonialism and art, and intersections of identity in creative expression.
This OER is designed for undergraduate students in upper-division humanities courses outside of Black Studies, such as Art History or Music or even Communications.
This OER was co-created by members of the Black Studies Across the Americas project. Feel free to peruse the below content and download for your own use within our Creative Commons license.
Please Choose a Featured Image
Settings –> Post –> Featured Image
Don’t forget to add alt text to any image you want to use on the OpenLab!
For more on writing good alt text visit this link.
How to find a Creative Commons-licensed image for your site:
Finding Public Domain and Creative Commons Media
Embed Your OER as a Google Doc
You can directly paste the link to your public, viewable-to-anyone Google Doc and WordPress will convert the link automatically! This will allow others to view the document on the web and even download their own copy! Be sure that all of your collaborators’ names are in the Google Doc as well!
Check the privacy settings of your Google Doc by selecting “Share” in the top-right corner of your Google Doc and selecting “Change to anyone with the link,” below “Get Link.”
Once you have copied the shareable link to your Google Doc, paste it into your post.
For more detailed instructions on embedding Google Drive content to your OpenLab site, please visit this help link.
What About Media?
If you want to embed a video, visit this help link.
To keep our media library organized, if you want to post a video, create a new post and embed the video directly into this post, then categorize it with the Category “Video.”
What Else Could You Post?
- Bibliography, including links to web sources
- Other types of media, including graphs, GIFs, videos, etc.
- Suggestions for further reading
