This short guide to accessibility in OER provides links to sites that maintain up-to-date guides, tips, directions, and helpful tools for creating accessible materials.

Blue Ridge PBS is pleased to announce the recent premiere of ACTIVATED LEARNING, a new podcast designed to elevate the teaching profession and help parents stay informed about how teaching and learning are evolving toward a student-centered approach to meet the needs of all learners. Developed in collaboration with the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) and the Virginia Society for Technology in Education (VSTE), this 12-episode series features interviews with national experts, classroom teachers, and instructional technologists. New episodes will drop every two weeks after the premiere and will be available on all major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and Spotify. All episodes will also be streamed and available on demand on the Blue Ridge PBS ECHO Channel at www.blueridgepbs.org/echo.  This resource provide an overview and promotional materials.

This graphic guide helps you go through the process of adding resources to the Professional Learning Hub on #GoOpenVA.  Download as an editable PPTX or a non-editable PDF.

This resource pairs visual and written primary resources. The works of art with have been chosen from the American Art collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The written selections include poems, speeches, and other historical documents.
Combining images with words provides students with multiple learning pathways for explorations of art, history, and language.

Teachers can use question stems to guide students through examining, analyzing, and interpreting primary source documents.

This text provides links to up-to-date resources on how to properly attribute OER within your own creations, as well as how to create your own attribution to include in your materials as a helpful guide to others.

A guide for educators who are developing full lessons on #GoOpenVA (Nebraska uses the same platform as #GoOpenVA does, so the instructions are the same).

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,