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Contents 1 About the Template 1.1 Tell Your OER Story: Template 1.2 Tell Your OER Story: Free High School Science Texts 1.3 Comments and Suggestions

[edit] About the Template

• Summary
  The storytelling template below offers guiding questions that can help OER projects share and reflect upon their practices and what they’ve learned. An example of a completed template for the OER project Free High School Science Texts is also provided.
  
  
• Tips for Reuse
  We invite OER community members to adapt the template for their own local purposes. The template can be used, e.g., as a face-to-face group activity within an OER project. Group members can together reflect upon and brainstorm the questions, all from varied perspectives. The template can also be used as part of an online activity, where the template questions are posted, e.g., on the project's intranet (e.g., on its online forum), and project members submit answers from their unique perspectives. The varied perspectives that answer the template questions can then be synthesized by an appointed facilitator into succinct statements that reflect the project's challenges, successes, lessons learned, and future aims.
  
  
• Invitation to Participate
  We invite OER project and community members to augment the template by suggesting other questions that need to be asked within it, or to share additional ideas on how the template can be used within an OER project. Simply create an account for this wiki, and add your comments to the bottom of the page.
  
  

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  Tell Your OER Story: Template

  
  

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  What is your project a shining example of?
  What have been the most significant lessons learned?	What internal and external data/information do you need to ensure your project's success?
  What has been your biggest challenge?	What's being done to continuously assess and improve the impact and sustainability of your project?
  What are the most exciting things that are still left to do?

  Tell Your OER Story: Free High School Science Texts

  
  

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  What is your project a shining example of? How to use Web 2.0 and social networking tools to transform an idea for improving education into tangible OER that meets the immediate needs of teachers and learners How to inspire and facilitate volunteers across the globe to come together, collaborate and create educational content online
  What have been the most significant lessons learned? The importance of making peer production volunteer-centric through ongoing improvements in technology, content, and processes The role of evangelist volunteers in inspiring content creation and taking on activities that move the project forward The importance of leveraging external content providers (e.g., teachers and paid contractors) alongside the volunteers’ work The realization that individuals external to the project (e.g., teachers) are more willing to share pre-existing personal content than previously assumed The importance of proactively assessing activities in light of project goals and creating practices that lend to positive user/volunteer experiences	What internal and external data/information do you need to ensure your project's success? How other, similar projects are approaching the issue of sustainability How FHSST volunteers and visitors are using the website How and in what ways teachers and learners localize and use the materials The experiences and perceptions of the materials from the perspective of teachers and learners The overreaching impact of the project on teaching and learning
  What has been your biggest challenge? Finding ways to facilitate ongoing, steady content contributions from volunteers and others	What's being done to continuously assess and improve the impact and sustainability of your project? Conducting teacher and learner trials/workshops to for user feedback Continuously developing new tools, technology and processes to facilitate and improve volunteer contributions/experiences Providing avenues for volunteers to communicate and provide feedback, such as the online forums and polls Making internal information transparent and open to invite dialogue (such as sharing the findings from the teacher trial data and sharing monthly updates on FHSST activities)
  What are the most exciting things that are still left to do? To get the textbooks into South African classrooms and to understand their impact on teaching and learning To make the project sustainable

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  Comments and Suggestions

  Add your comments and suggestions for ways to improve or augment the OER Story Template here.