What course are you interested in creating as part of the School of Open? 
When you think about creating a course, ask yourself, "What do I want to help people DO?"  versus "What do I think people should know or learn?" For example, I  want to help:

We want to help elementary (or primary) educators easily find and use free, useful resources for their classes. We also want to help them think of and incorporate activities that teach their students digital world skills -- such as finding, remixing, and sharing digital media and materials on the web. 

How can open content, tools, or processes help people do what they do better?
Open practices include using the content, tools and processes shared with us, enabling others to use, share and adapt what we create, and supporting  transparency in our content, tools and processes. If a course involves  teaching or learning about any of these practices, either broadly or in a  particular field, then it probably fits in the School of Open. 

Elementary educators can take advantage of open educational resources, or OER, for when they need free materials to supplement lesson plans -- or even for creating new lesson plans. They can also tap into the OER network of teachers already sharing and using materials with each other. They can share their own work online, contributing to the pool of shared OER and simultaneously to the improvement of their resource by other teachers. They can lead by example, for other teachers but especially their students by finding, creating, remixing, and sharing their own work first through a collaborative online project. They can then incorporate a similar activity for their students, having them learn these web relevant skills and directly experience the benefits of engaging with open resources and the collaborative process. Teachers can share their own experiences about the course transparently, via blogs and social media. 

Is there a specific aspect or mechanism that keeps people from taking advantage of open stuff?
Think  about the key obstacles that discourage someone from learning about  openness, applying open tools, or sharing their work openly. For  example, what  might cast doubt into a musicians mind when it comes to using openly  licensed material? Why might a graphics designer refrain from sharing their works openly? Are there good reasons for not going fully open or are certain misconceptions playing a role?

Elementary educators may be restricted by district determined curricula (lack of flexibility), restricted internet access through school systems, time, resources, training, and child privacy laws. Child privacy laws are good reasons for teachers to not share their students work, except anonymously. They might also be restrained by their district policy around who owns the content they create and/or use. 

Who are you trying to help? Think about the course from the learner's standpoint. 
Who  will be taking the course? What real world questions is s/he likely to  ask? What needs is s/he likely to have and barriers s/he is likely to  run into? 

Elementary/primary educators. Open to anyone in the world, but we will be facilitating course from US pacific time zone.

Create a user scenario:

What can you reuse and build on?
Do openly licensed resources already exist that explain/teach any of this?  Are people already teaching or learning about related topics elsewhere that you can tap to collectively build the course?

Yes, some - we plan to adapt and incorporate as appropriate the list of resources at http://pad.p2pu.org/p/Courses_for_kids.

Document your thinking behind the course and learning activities
The learner may ask, why am I doing this? What am I learning? Be transparent about the learning objectives.

Participants will learn the following skills:

+ Finding/discovering educational resources that are open for sharing and remix (CC licensed or in the public domain)
+ Remixing open educational resources
+ Sharing remixes on the web
++ Attributing CC licensed materials used
++ CC licensing their works
+ Explaining CC licenses and how they work
+ Collaborative editing
+ Supporting transparency in all work processes
+ Advocating openness (extra credit)
Course Badge for overall completion - Open Educator / License to Share
Resources for Week 3: Find the materials with the rights you need

= FEEDBACK =
The one thing I would suggest thinking through is how to encourage teachers to incorporate this in the classroom. Is there a general unit this would fit into best? Do the teachers have time to implement this? each district and grade will have different requirements so it might help having a resource to help teachers get started or extend tht peer discussion with some overhead support to help them actually kick start this level of engagement Since I see it as an extremely important "extra credit"

Also popcorn is relatively easy to use I think but every user will have a different technical background, maybe another option for remixing? 

Sime teachers also might not have blogs, is there a default place where thy can all contribute without that or social media? 

I'd also be curious to see what the kids think once the teachers show their final product. Not sure if that fits here, maybe in the shared experiences?

I know this will come with the more in depth build out but I would also like to see some target questions for teachers to think about throughout the process that might help for a more fruitful reflection at the end of the course.

Let me know if you need me to clarify or elaborate on any of this Jane! Excited to see this come together!-Victoria

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