The activity bank has activities that you will complete as part the POSE modules but we also welcome anyone who is not in the course and interested to complete the activities. Roll up your sleeves and make some stuff! The concept behind the activity bank is to learn by doing. This bank is adapted from the DS106 Assignment Bank and the Agora Challenge Bank.
Public Domain and Traditional Knowledge
June 18, 2020
For this activity you will watch a video and read an article by the Centre for International Governance Innovation Senior Fellow Ruth Okediji on issues with the public domain and its impact on traditional knowledge.
Reviewing OER for Adaption
July 22, 2020
For this activity, you will find and open educational resource in an open education repository and review the content, license, and file format for adaption.
Adaption Required
August 7, 2020
For this activity you will search out an open textbook or resource that could replace a paid course resource and figure out how it would need to be adapted for your course.
Adapt an Image & Re-post
July 13, 2020
Find an openly licensed image and use Pixlr (or another image manipulation program of your choice) and post your creation to your Flickr account or website for others to revise and reuse
Analyze text using Voyant
October 20, 2020
For this activity you will analyze a text using Voyant. Voyant is an open source, web based graphical text analysis application.
Contribute to Wikipedia
July 29, 2020
For this activity, you’ll familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia suggesting or contributing a revision to a Wikipedia article in your disipline.
Test Out LaTex
October 20, 2020
For this activity you will create a document using Latex in Overleaf. Latex is a high quality typesetting application.
Create a slide using a CC licensed image
April 29, 2020
You will need a Slideshare account for this challenge. Decide on a topic and build a 5-10 slide story using open licensed slide decks.
Creating Interactive Content with H5P
December 13, 2021
For this activity, you will create an account on H5P.org and create a Paragraph Sort activity.
Find an open online resource you can use
August 6, 2020
Find open educational resources that you could use in your teaching using the included repositories and tools,
Format Plain Text with Markdown
October 20, 2020
For this activity, you will use Dillinger to create markdown. You will then briefly reflect on your experience and the relative benefits of markdown.
How much does your reference list cost?
August 9, 2020
For this activity you will attempt to determine the cost of purchasing individual access to all of the articles referenced in a recent paper you have written or read.
Identify OER and build a learning activity around them
July 29, 2020
For this activity, you identify one or more OER and build a simple learning activity around them
Innovation in Scholarly Communications
June 19, 2020
For this activity, review their crowd-sourced list of over 400 innovations under the DATA tab and select one innovation to review.
Is this Open Data?
November 19, 2020
For this activity you will find data that is accessible by public, and analyze if the data is considered as “Open Data” or not.
Learning to Use OSF
October 14, 2021
OSF, formerly known as the Open Science Framework, is a workflow management web application that provides a central landing place for project components that may be scattered across many different digital workspaces and might be owned by different people. OSF provides a central place to bring together collaborators, project files, and to track versions of things. […]
License your work with a Creative Commons license
July 28, 2020
Find a work that you have created and license the work as a Creative Commons license.
Naming & Organizing Your Files
November 13, 2020
For this activity, you will review file names and organization for files all related to the same project. You will share a strategy to employ to improve the naming and organization.
Predatory Publishing
June 19, 2020
For this activity, you are tasked with comparing two open access journals, one that you presume may be of low quality and another that has been vetted by the Directory of Open Access Journals and deemed legitimate.
Preregistration Review!
December 2, 2020
For this activity you will find and review a preregistration for a study in your discipline.
Publisher Agreements and Knowing Your Rights
June 19, 2020
Before agreeing to publisher your with a subscription/for-profit publisher, it is important to understand how your copyright is protected and maintained. For this activity, you will review two examples of publisher agreements.
Reflecting on Critical Perspectives
February 8, 2021
For this activity, reflect on at least one essay/chapter from Open at the Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education
Replicability – A Case Study
November 13, 2020
For this activity, you will read the case study about Liliana Mayes, a third-year doctoral student in developmental psychology who is dealing with an issue of replicability with her research.
Scraping data from a PDF
November 24, 2020
For this activity, you will be freeing data tables from PDFs and creating a CSV or an Excel sheet with the data.
The Case of the Coalition for Responsible Sharing
June 18, 2020
For this activity, review the Coalition for Responsible Sharing and the open letter (PDF) and write a response to the questions provided.
Transform a Traditional Assignment
July 28, 2020
For this activity, you will decide how you could transform a traditional assignments to be open. How would you change the assignment? What resources are needed?
Tri-Agency Open Access Policy
August 3, 2020
For this activity, consult the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications and, given the policy elements, consider how you would comply.
Visualize open data
November 17, 2020
For this activity you will find Open data and visualize the data using DataWrapper or your choice of data visualization tool
