{"id":76,"date":"2021-11-15T14:13:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T19:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/pdccguide\/?post_type=chapter&p=76"},"modified":"2022-02-28T12:07:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T17:07:49","slug":"open-pedagogy-a-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/pdccguide\/chapter\/open-pedagogy-a-toolkit\/","title":{"raw":"Open Pedagogy: Some Tools","rendered":"Open Pedagogy: Some Tools"},"content":{"raw":"There are a wide variety of tools that can be used to help create open assignments that allow students to be active participants in knowledge creation.\u00a0 Highlighted here a few resources that work in tandem with the Pressbooks authoring platform; many can also be used as standalone tools.\r\n

Pressbooks<\/h2>\r\nPressbooks is an open-source web-based authoring and editing tool that has been customized for use in the academic setting.\u00a0 With Pressbooks, instructors can create new resources from original material, <\/span>adapt existing openly licensed materials for their classrooms, and enrich existing content with the inclusion of accessible LaTex code, videos, audio, web annotation, and interactive elements such as quizzes and other forms of assessment. All the Public Domain Core Collection Project books have been created in Pressbooks at Ryerson University.\u00a0 They can be used directly as is or copied for additional enhancement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nPost-secondary Ontario Educators\u00a0 from\u00a0 eCampusOntario member institutions<\/a>\u00a0 have access to the\u00a0 Pressbooks software via the eCampusOntario Pressbooks site<\/a>. Other educators should check with their library or centre for teaching and learning to see if the institution hosts its own Pressbooks site or if access is available through a regional educational consortium.\r\n<\/a>\r\n

Pressbooks Glossaries<\/h3>\r\nPressbooks has a feature that you can use to create a glossary of terms for any book that you would like to customize.\u00a0 Glossary terms\u00a0are underlined in your Pressbooks book, and, when clicked, will display the definition of the word.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Glossaries can either be used by an instructor who wants to provide additional information about the book without interrupting the flow of the text or they can be used as the basis of an open assignment with students.\u00a0 If you would like students to create a glossary, they will need to have Pressbooks accounts that provide editor access to your book.\u00a0 This is not difficult to do, but would work best in a smaller class.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_157\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"650\"]\"Text, Example of a glossary term pop-up definition[\/caption]\r\n\r\nTo create an interactive glossary, you will need to add a Glossary chapter to the back matter of your text.\u00a0 When you create this chapter, ensure that you have chosen \u201cGlossary\u201d from the chapter type drop-down menu.\u00a0 If you are using a\u00a0Public Domain Core Collection<\/a>\u00a0text, a glossary chapter will be included<\/span><\/span>\r\n

How to Add a Term to the Glossary<\/h4>\r\n
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  1. \u00a0In the editor interface, highlight the term<\/strong> to be defined<\/li>\r\n \t
  2. Click on the GL<\/strong> icon in the editing toolbar<\/li>\r\n \t
  3. In the pop-up box add a definition<\/strong> for the term and click insert<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t
  4. Click Save<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\"Pressbooks\r\n\r\n\"Pop-up\r\n

    Examples of Glossaries<\/h3>\r\nThese Open Educational Resources created in Pressbooks all include glossaries.\u00a0 The links below are to pages in the books with glossary terms highlighted and underlined.\u00a0 The complete glossaries can be found at the back of the books.\r\n\r\nIntroduction to Philosophy: Epistimology<\/a>\r\n\r\nMythoi Koinoi<\/a>\r\n

    Additional Pressbooks Resources<\/h3>\r\nPressbooks Users Guide<\/a>\r\nThis continuously evolving guide to creating books using Pressbooks is designed for any author wanting to use the Pressbooks software to create a publication.\u00a0 While the focus is on book creation using the commercial pressbooks.com site, it contains solid information on the book creation process.\r\n\r\nThe Guide to Pressbooks for EDU<\/a>\r\nThis companion to the Pressbooks User Guide<\/em> (above) focuses on many of the features of Pressbooks that are tailored to the educational setting including the use of LaTex, footnotes and references, customizing textboxes, etc.\r\n\r\nA Guide to Making Open Text Books with Students<\/a>\r\nThis Rebus Community publication is a handbook for instructors who wish to practice open pedagogy by engaging students in the creation of open educational resources.\r\n\r\nPressbooks Directory<\/a>\r\nThis directory lists over 3,000\u00a0 books that have been created using Pressbooks software by a wide range of educational institutions.\u00a0 Openly licensed content\u00a0 (CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY- NC-SA, CCO or public domain) can be cloned, revised, remixed and redistributed and modified for your own use (with appropriate attribution).\r\n<\/a>\r\n

    Hypothes.is<\/h2>\r\nHypothes.is is a free web-based social annotation tool that integrates a conversational layer of text, images and multi-media with web documents (web pages, pdfs,\u00a0 etc.) Hypothes.is is an ideal tool for use in the educational context\u00a0 as it supports collaboration, interactive reading, and student engagement by increasing reading comprehension and developing critical thinking skills.\u00a0 It makes reading active, visible and social.<\/span>\r\n\r\nHypothes.is is integrated with Pressbooks, so once it is turned on for a particular book, anyone with a Hypothes.is account can start annotating.\u00a0 \u00a0All students need to do is set up a free Hypothes.is account.\r\n\r\nThere are a range of different ways that Hypothes.is can be used with open textbooks.\r\n

    Annotation as Gloss<\/h3>\r\nHypothes.is can be used as an enhanced glossary tool.\u00a0 Like the glossary feature in Pressbooks, it can be used to provide supplementary material and definitions to the text without disrupting the reading flow.\u00a0 Hypothes.is glosses have the advantage of being more interactive - students can respond to them and ask for clarification.\r\n

    Seeding Texts with Discussion Questions<\/h3>\r\nInstructors can seed the text with questions to guide the students that students through the text, highlighting content that is relevant to the themes and context of the course.\u00a0 If you ask students to reply to your questions, tese replies can then be used as the basis for discussion in class.\r\n

    Multimedia Writing<\/h3>\r\nIn addition to enabling textual annotation of documents on the internet, Hypothes.is can also be used to annotate with images and videos. If you are asking students to annotate with images and videos, this presents a good opportunity to discuss the use of images, including how to find them and how to attribute sources. Guides such as this Open Images<\/a> research guide provide ideas for sources of images and examples of good attribution statements.\r\n\r\nThese are just a few examples of how you can used web annotation.\u00a0 More examples of using Hypothes.is in the classroom<\/a> and examples of classroom use<\/a> can be found on the Hypothes.is website.\r\n

    Additional Hypothes.is Resources<\/h3>\r\n

    Liquid Margins<\/h4>\r\nLiquid Margins<\/a> is a regular show where instructors talk about collaborative annotation.\u00a0 An archive of these presentations is available on the Hypothes.is Liquid Margins site.\u00a0 Recent sessions have included such topics as Social Annotation and OER<\/a>, Empowering Student Writing with Social Annotation<\/a> and Primary Sources: Annotating History<\/a>\r\n

    I Annotate<\/h4>\r\nI Annotate<\/a> is an Annual conference for open annotation practices and technologies.\r\n

    QuickStart Guides<\/h4>\r\nQuickStart Guide for Students<\/a>\r\n\r\nQuickStart Guide for Teachers<\/a>\r\n<\/a>\r\n

    H5P<\/h2>\r\nH5P is an open source content creation tool that allows you to create interactive, media-rich content for use on the web.\u00a0 It integrates with a wide range of educational platforms including Pressbooks.\u00a0 Currently there are over 45 H5P content types that can be used to increase student engagement and to allow students to assess their comprehension of materials they are studying.\r\n\r\nContent types include:\r\n