‘Together’ is an openly licensed, free and collaborative picture book and an Open Educational Resource (OER).
Together is co-created by a small group of open practitioners and researchers in Higher Education (HE) who are across many countries and continents and supported by a 2020 Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN) Fellowship. Together is, by its nature, created with the help of the wider Open Education community (Pulker et al., 2021). This story, and telling it,is always changing and changeable. Together can be used and remixed by individuals in different cross-generational settings, various contexts, and parts of the world. It is for young and adult readers alike (Nerantzi et al., 2021a). Gratitude to the generosity of the Open Education community, the story has already been translated into more than 28 languages Nerantzi, C. Pulker, H., Corti, P., Roberts, V., Bentley, P., Fransman, G., Mathers, B. and Frank, O. (2021b).
Youtube Reading of book: https://youtu.be/PkI9Nhb3N7s
These are currently available as Google slideshare books 1. You can access the original book at and download it Together | Zenodo 1
For this activity, we invite you to use some of the resources provided and create your own remixes, using images and text from the book in the different languages and other resources you would like to add to create your own versions. Just make sure that any additional resources you use are available in the public domain or under an open license. You can also use photographs and drawings you have created (and consider sharing them with an open license too).
Access the Google Drive Folder and start remixing!
DoodleFan:
The Doodlefan app
There is a tutorial which may be helpful for colleagues. Please see demonstration at Doodlefan demonstration – YouTube 1 Hopefully this link will work.
Nerantzi, C., Pulker, H., Bentley, P., Corti, P., Roberts, V., Fransman, G., Frank, O. and Mathers, B. (2021a) Together. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4703978 2 Translation available in 20 languages.
Nerantzi, C., Pulker, H., Corti, P., Roberts, V., Bentley, P., Fransman, G., Mathers, B. and Frank, O. (2021b) The joys of open collaboration, stories from the GOGN picture book team, OER21 Conference, 22 April 2021, recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0vymVMOuSQ 2
Pulker, H., Bentley, P., Fransman, G., Roberts, V., Nerantzi, C., Corti, P., Frank, O. and Mathers, B. (2021) A collaboration like no other, reflections by the team as the GOGN picture book project is coming to an end #GOGNpb, 7 April 2021, GO-GN blog, http://go-gn.net/research/a-collaboration-like-no-other/ 1
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