A short screencast to demonstrate how to change your password in #GoOpenVA (if you have an assigned account).  IF YOU HAVE AN ACCOUNT ACCESSED THROUGH A SINGLE-SIGN-ON SOLUTION FROM YOUR SCHOOL DIVISION (CLEVER OR GOOGLE), YOU SHOULD CHANGE PASSWORDS ONLY ON YOUR GENERAL DIVISION LOG-IN ACCOUNT.

Some best practices for adding metadata to your customized (remixed) or created resources.

There are two ways you can collaborate using the tools available on #GoOpenVA.  This screencast demonstrates those two ways.

This is a list of links to help Creators on #GoOpenVA locate openly-licensed videos, images, audiofiles, etc. for using in their own creations.

Designed for curators at Virginia's own GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums), this presentation introduces OER (openly-licensed resources) and #GoOpenVA.

Recorded presentation regarding copyright, Creative Commons licensing, and education and how Virginia museums might assist teachers in professional growth and meeting the needs of their students.

This video is the result of a collaboration between Blue Ridge PBS and the Virginia Department of Education. It's designed to help educators take the next step from just using the resources of Go Open Virginia to becoming contributors of resources including videos, lesson plans, and utilization plans for ALL teachers.

#GoOpenVA is a collaborative initiative that enables educational entities throughout Virginia to create, share, and access openly-licensed educational resources (OER, also known as open education resources). OER are free digital materials that can be used or modified to adjust to student needs; they are openly-licensed unhampered by many traditional copyright limitations.

#GoOpenVA encourages all Virginia educators and learners to create, share, and use digital resources with the end goals of providing equitable access to great learning materials throughout the state, and supporting new approaches to learning and teaching for all Virginians.

This is the first epiode from the ActiVAtED Learning Podcast series featuring renowned Blended Learning author and educator, Catlin Tucker.

This is the 2nd episode in the ActiVAtED Learning Podcast series. Host, Tom Landon interviews  Dr. Lisa Coons, Superintendent of Public Instruction about the principles of All in VA.

This is the 3rd episode from the ActiVAtED Learning Podcast series featuring Emily Burrell from South Lakes High School in Fairfax, VA and Wezi Thindwa of Adobe Systems,

Katie Fielding is a STEM Coach for Prince William County Schools, and Chris Bugaj is an author and Assistive Technologist in Loudon County, VA. ActiVAtED Learning host Tom Landon sat down with them at the 2023 VSTE conference, where Katie shared her experience as a child with Cystic Fibrosis and how that led her to become a leader in assistive technology and inclusion, and Chris shared his thoughts on how assistive technology can help ALL students, not just those with disabilities.

This is the 5th episode from the ActiVAtED Learning Podcast series featuring several teachers from Rocky Gap Elementary School in Stafford County, VA.

On this episode we travel to Henrico County to visit with Yvette Lee of J.R. Tucker High School. Mrs. Lee is a finalist for the 2023 Presidential Award for Math and Science Teaching sponsored by the White House and the National Science Foundation. She talked about the challenges of learning how to teach American students after leaving South Korea. We also caught up with Louisa County Technology Coach Nikki Wagoner at the 2023 VSTE Conference in Roanoke.

When two newly-minted instructional technology resource teachers went to the administration in Washington County, Virginia with an idea for a mobile technology lab, they were met with a resounding YES, after which they had to figure out how to make it happen. Andrew Smith and Thomas Larimer join Activated Learning podcast host Tom Landon to share how they created a trailer that contains drones as well as virtual reality and robotics equipment. Now that trailer travels the mountain roads of their rural county to bring state of the art learning opportunities to teachers and students while maximizing the investment in teaching tools for the county.

Logan Childress went from being a band teacher to setting up and running two Virtual Reality Labs for Bristol City Schools. He joined ActiVAtED Learning host Tom Landon in the lab at Virginia High School to talk about how he did it and what he's learned in the process.

This screencast demonstrates the process for editing resources that you have started or even published on #GoOpenVA. The video is slightly less than 2 minutes.

A short 1.5 minute screencast showing how to embed videos in Open Author.

This is a copy of the bullet presentation for VASCD 2021, highlighting the way that using OER and #GoOpenVA can help teachers grow their skills, leading to even more impact on student growth.