Most recent public comments by Kalynn Eberhart https://nowcomment.com/users/25395 https://nowcomment.com/documents/65469?scroll_to=640328 https://nowcomment.com/documents/65469?scroll_to=640328 OER has made my job much easier. I have used YouTube as OER since I first graduated from CMU. I use it to educate myself on many things regarding my life at home and my school duties. It has a mass amount of resources for middle and high school science. I do have problems filtering my results and spend a lot of my time trying to find a resource that fits my need. Besides, YouTube, I find most of my OERs by doing a Google search for my current topic. There are so many wonderful websites with interactive lessons, readings, animations, videos and images that I don't bother keeping a list of them all. Science is a subject that has many resources online for free that are easily found. Chem4Kids.com, Chem.Perdue.edu, BrainPop (only partially free), StudyJams by Scholastic, and PhET.colorado.edu are some of my most commonly used resources. These provide pieces to a puzzle of a complete lesson but are invaluable. They replace and enhance my dry lectures or readings from book. In middle school, money is not always available for lab equipment that will only be used once a year. Online labs from PhET.colorado.edu are free and help students gain an understanding I couldn't otherwise give them. Gooru http://gooru.org/welcome/ Featured courses are available for free now in Gooru (which recently replaced ExitTix - I used ExitTix to host my assessments because it offered immediate feedback to my students and reteaching options). The featured courses have some of the difficulties I have experienced with any OER. You may need to remix (copy and edit) the user-made courses to meet your specific need and there are many to choose from (which takes time to filter through). However, Gooru is an OER that took all of my favorite resources and put them into an online lesson that I can assign to my students. Gooru grades all the embedded assessments and allows me to modify the courses. As we switch to new science standards, I don't know if I will have books available to guide me through the curriculum. So, I am thankful for Gooru and all other OERs. They have significantly, positively impacted by job and my students. Thu, 15 Dec 2016 18:59:04 -0600 https://nowcomment.com/documents/65469?scroll_to=640319 https://nowcomment.com/documents/65469?scroll_to=640319 I have the same concerns as you. I hope that MIT OCW does not have a hidden agenda of making a profit on book sales after advertising free courses. However, I do see how a book might be necessary to work through a course. And, it is understandable that a book might cost money and may be written by someone designing the MIT course. I hope, even though this freedom could be misused, that courses continue to be offered online for free, and branch out to include courses for younger students on coding, computer science, and things related to STEM. These classes are difficult for middle schools and high schools to integrate into their curriculum. Thu, 15 Dec 2016 18:42:06 -0600 https://nowcomment.com/documents/63710?scroll_to=602772 https://nowcomment.com/documents/63710?scroll_to=602772 Is there ever a time when these molecules would stop moving? Explain. Sat, 29 Oct 2016 07:40:37 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/63710?scroll_to=602771 https://nowcomment.com/documents/63710?scroll_to=602771 In your own words, how do these liquid molecules move compared to gas molecules? Sat, 29 Oct 2016 07:40:37 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/63710?scroll_to=602770 https://nowcomment.com/documents/63710?scroll_to=602770 In your own words, describe how the molecules appear Sat, 29 Oct 2016 07:40:37 -0500