Welcome to EDT4OL learners – My acceptance portfolio blog post

Welcome to my facilitator’s blog site I will be using to support learners taking the Empowered Digital Teacher for Online Learning (EDT4OL) course. This blog provides an example of the structure for your blog post to declare yourself and document your Acceptance Portfolio Submission.

I look forward to reading your blog posts on this site and wish everyone the best of luck as you commence your learning journey.

Declaring myself

My name is Wayne Mackintosh and I’m the Director of the OER Foundation and New Zealand’s UNESCO Chair in OER. I’m also the founder of WikiEducator which you will be using in this course. I designed and developed this course working with the support of my colleagues at the OER Foundation including Claire Goode, Dave Lane and Simonne Wood.

I’m participating in this inaugural offering of the EDT4OL course in April 2022 as a facilitator. There are many people around the world who helped me in developing my digital skills for OER publishing and I feel privileged to pay my learning forward by helping you improve your skills in open education.

My acceptance portfolio evidence

As facilitator of this course and developer of the DS4OERS micro-course I present the following evidence to demonstrate that I meet the requirements for the EDT4OL acceptance portfolio:

• Wayne’s WikiEducator Userpage providing evidence of basic wiki skills (In existence since 2006!)
• I present two DS4OERS badges as evidence of my digital skills in using OER:
  • DS4OERS OER Audio Graphic Badge (Note that this must link to the metadata of the actual Badge awarded in Moodle to certify who the badge was awarded to. If you achieved the Certificate of Completion for DS4OERS you can provide the validation code printed on the certificate, and upload and link to a copy of your certificate.)
  • DS4OERS Diagram Remix Badge

• EDT4OL Signed Facilitators Contract (PDF) – (Note this links to the PDF version of my signed contract uploaded to this blog site.)

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Tips for EDT4OL Students Your post must contain an openly licensed “Featured image” which you can legally reuse. The WordPress theme you have selected will determine how the image is displayed in different contexts and is added via the Post options displayed on the right of the editing window. Your featured image must be attributed correctly. If image attributions are missing, your post is likely in breach of copyright and cannot be marked as “achieved”. This also demonstrates your skills in adhering to copyright requirements which is a requirement for this course. The easiest way to do this is to add an “Image attribution” subheading at the end of your post with links to the source image and licensing information as per the “TASL” method. Apply an appropriate category to your post. Don’t forget to add the “EDT4OL” course code as a tag for your post. This is used to fetch a link to your blog post in the course feed on the course site for registered blogs Follow the instructions on the course site to register your blog URL for the feed harvester.