Open Educational Resources offer a wide variety of education and services the are accessible for free.   It is wonderful that education and resources readily available to many without the worry of having to pay fees.   With the many wonderful and exciting options available we must always consider how reliable the source is, whether or not there are copyright concerns and be aware that it can not replace student/teacher relationships.  We must also question whether or not it is sustainable as people who create this information are not being paid.

One of the biggest takeaways I got from today was that common sense media has three different focuses:

• Common sense media(parents)/education(teachers) /kids action (aiming at kids needs)
• A big take away from today was that I can use common sense media as a resource for lesson plans and teaching
• Common sense media is a great resource for locating webinars for professional development
• Using Open Educational Resources can help teachers to plan very engaging  lesson plans

Here are some other opensource educational services to look into:

• Mathsthroughstories.org
• Lumen
• merlot
• Openlearning Initiative