Utah Student Planning Guides An Open Educational Resource (OER)

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e.g., Grade 8 Online “Master copy” is open (“OER”) and customizable. CCR 8th Grade Utah Student Planning Guide (Fillable) Online “Master copy” is open (“OER”) and customizable. Recommendations: Lead (either counselor or CTE Teacher) downloads the fillable PDF. Master copy is reviewed, customizations recommendations are made:

e.g., Grade 8 cont. Is customization happening at a school level, district, or region? Reflect that entity, include those contacts (e.g., new front/back cover). Identify pages to replace or to delete completely. Explore, select or develop other OER pages to add (i.e., other public domain, shareable PDFs). Save your customized PDF with a new name. Plan the “who, what, when, how” of distribution – especially with regard to posting online, and student utilization. Best practice: Students download their personal copy n a secure location. Completes fillable pages on line (like an “e-workbook.” Saving to a cloud location offers flexibility in terms of completing pages, and also offers options for sharing with parents, teachers, and counselors. Seniors may want to save selected pages to their LinkedIn profiles.

Action item Work on the Master copy of two new Utah Student Planning Guides has begun; one for Grades 9-10, and one for Grades 11-12. You can review past edition – Grades 9-12 – here: http://www.schools.utah.gov/arc/CTE/UtahStudentPlanningGuideHS/HTML/index.html I need feedback re: two issues: Suggestions for pages to delete, new pages (please point to or send existing OER PDFs), or new topics to include (new articles, including fillable fields for students to complete, will be developed). Suggestions for how best to support customization and distribution. One idea is to host regional “make it, take it” workshops. Participating educators would customize and save their own Student Guide(s) as part of the workshop, and define specific plans for distribution.