{"id":104,"date":"2021-11-25T11:07:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T16:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/pdccguide\/?post_type=chapter&p=104"},"modified":"2022-02-28T08:51:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T13:51:36","slug":"why-create-your-own-public-domain-text","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/pdccguide\/chapter\/why-create-your-own-public-domain-text\/","title":{"raw":"Why Create Your Own Public Domain Text","rendered":"Why Create Your Own Public Domain Text"},"content":{"raw":"It is easy to provide students with a link to a free public domain text on the web; however, you can provide a far superior learning experience by making a copy of that text and customizing it for use with your students. Public domain works are an ideal canvas for both tailoring the text to your objectives for the course and for allowing students to showcase their work beyond the classroom.\r\n\r\nThis chapter contains a couple of easy-to-implement ideas using Pressbooks as the platform for the hosting the public domain text.\u00a0 Upcoming chapters will provide additional examples and case studies of using public domain texts as the basis of open assignments.\r\n

Add an Introduction to the Text<\/h2>\r\nAdding a customized introduction to the text allows you to orient your students to the assigned text.\u00a0 You can provide guidance specific to the themes, topics, literary styles, etc. that you would like to cover in your course.\r\n\r\nYou could also consider having students create introductory materials for sections in the text.\u00a0 This can be built into an assignment to create a living textbook that can be built upon in subsequent iterations of the course.\r\n

Create a Glossary<\/h2>\r\nWith Pressbooks it is easy to create an interactive glossary of terms to supplement the text. Glossary terms<\/em> are underlined in your Pressbooks book, and, when clicked, will display the definition of the word.\u00a0 With a glossary you can define words that may be unfamiliar to students and provide additional material about references in the text that may be obscure to some readers. How to create a Pressbooks glossary.<\/a><\/span>\r\n

Seed your Text with Annotations<\/h2>\r\nUsing a tool such as Hypothes.is, which is integrated with Pressbooks, you can annotate text with questions for discussion. How to annotate with Hypothes.is<\/a>.\r\n

Include Interactive Activities<\/h2>\r\nInteractive activities can be added to your Pressbooks with the integrated H5P tool.\u00a0 This tool lets you create and add over forty different types of activities to your book.\u00a0 These activities can include multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks, flashcards, presentations, timelines and many other interactive components. How to use H5P<\/a>.\r\n\r\nThese are just a few examples of how you can start customizing public domain texts for use in your courses.\u00a0 The Open Pedagogy: Some Tools<\/a> chapter provides more details on how to customize your public domain text.","rendered":"

It is easy to provide students with a link to a free public domain text on the web; however, you can provide a far superior learning experience by making a copy of that text and customizing it for use with your students. Public domain works are an ideal canvas for both tailoring the text to your objectives for the course and for allowing students to showcase their work beyond the classroom.<\/p>\n

This chapter contains a couple of easy-to-implement ideas using Pressbooks as the platform for the hosting the public domain text.\u00a0 Upcoming chapters will provide additional examples and case studies of using public domain texts as the basis of open assignments.<\/p>\n

Add an Introduction to the Text<\/h2>\n

Adding a customized introduction to the text allows you to orient your students to the assigned text.\u00a0 You can provide guidance specific to the themes, topics, literary styles, etc. that you would like to cover in your course.<\/p>\n

You could also consider having students create introductory materials for sections in the text.\u00a0 This can be built into an assignment to create a living textbook that can be built upon in subsequent iterations of the course.<\/p>\n

Create a Glossary<\/h2>\n

With Pressbooks it is easy to create an interactive glossary of terms to supplement the text. Glossary terms<\/em> are underlined in your Pressbooks book, and, when clicked, will display the definition of the word.\u00a0 With a glossary you can define words that may be unfamiliar to students and provide additional material about references in the text that may be obscure to some readers. How to create a Pressbooks glossary.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Seed your Text with Annotations<\/h2>\n

Using a tool such as Hypothes.is, which is integrated with Pressbooks, you can annotate text with questions for discussion. How to annotate with Hypothes.is<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Include Interactive Activities<\/h2>\n

Interactive activities can be added to your Pressbooks with the integrated H5P tool.\u00a0 This tool lets you create and add over forty different types of activities to your book.\u00a0 These activities can include multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks, flashcards, presentations, timelines and many other interactive components. How to use H5P<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These are just a few examples of how you can start customizing public domain texts for use in your courses.\u00a0 The Open Pedagogy: Some Tools<\/a> chapter provides more details on how to customize your public domain text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-104","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":34,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/pdccguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/pdccguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/pdccguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/pdccguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/pdccguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/pdccguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/104\/revisions\/400"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/pdccguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/34"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/pdccguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/104\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/pdccguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/pdccguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/pdccguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/pdccguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}