Title: Activity 3.3 Develop a Digital Resource, Activity, or Assessment using a FOSS tool
Course: Learning Design and Development > Section: Topic 3: Digital Learning Development

Aim: To practice designing and developing a useful resource for your own course

using FOSS.

Motivation: Discover how easy/difficult it may be to use an appropriate FOSS tool in your teaching and learning. Build your own FOSS resource!

Resources: A variety of FOSS tools may be used, including -

- Screencast-o-matic (online screen capture recording)
- YouTube (video publishing & storage)
- Make Beliefs Comix (online Cartoon Maker)
- SlideShare (slide sharing site)
- Google Forms (Online Survey / Evaluation)
- Survey Monkey (Online survey and questionnaires)
- Doodle (Scheduling, registration needed)
- Hot Potatoes (Quiz Tool)
- Other similar communication and collaboration functionality found within your own community’s or institution’s VLE/LMS

Who: This is an individual activity

Task:

- Develop an assessment, activity or resource for use in your own course using a FOSS tool.
- Should you not have access to a tool, you may use or adapt an open educational resource (OER) rich media resource such as a video, slides, or an image that you have located online, and incorporate this in your new course resource.

How:

- Please refer to the tool identified by you in Activity 3.2, and also refer to the Activity Design Structure provided previously.
- While you are working, make notes about any particular features of your activity or resource that you would like to highlight and any difficulties experienced.
- Don’t forget to include information about word limits, file size and types, recommended amount of time to be spent, and how performance will be assessed, if at all. See activity design structure template.
- Once completed, you are required to demonstrate your learning activity or resource and/or make it accessible to the wider group.
- In the discussion forum provided for this activity, share your recorded observations / notes about developing your digital resource, using a subject header that indicates what tool/technology you have used.
- If necessary, you should include a link to your resource from within your forum post.

Duration:  80+ minutes

Response/Assessment:  After you have completed this task, take a look at some of the other contributions described in the forum.

- Provide constructive feedback to at least 1 other participant by responding to their forum contribution.
- Read the feedback provided by others to your own activity / resource and refine it accordingly.
- You may choose to provide the link to your revised activity / resource to the group.

This activity has been adapted from the ‘Using ICT to Enrich Teaching and Learning MOOC, Module 3: How to use ICTs to Enhance your Teaching and Learning’. AVU and COL (2015).