Day 4 Activity:
Okay, so I’m collaborating with some colleagues to create an
OER - Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Child Development textbook on Health, Safety and Nutrition. Well, while scanning some sources for today’s
activity, I stumbled across a reference to an OER Child Development textbook at
Lumen. I followed that lead and found
the book. which contains a
unit on Infancy, with a section about Nutrition. So, this is a source that we can freely retain, remix, reuse, redistribute, regurgitate,
etc. as part of our textbook project.
For example, we could extract this paragraph:
“Breast milk is considered the ideal diet for
newborns. It has the right amount of calories, fat, and protein to support
overall physical and neurological development, it provides a source of iron
more easily absorbed in the body than the iron found in dietary supplements, it
provides a resistance against many diseases, it is more easily digested by
infants than is formula, and it helps babies make a transition to solid foods
more easily than if bottle fed. For all of these reasons, it is
recommended that mothers breast feed their infants until at least 6 months of
age and that breast milk be used in the diet throughout the first year (U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, 2004a in Berk, 2007).”
This paragraph could then be incorporated with complementary paragraphs
from other OER sources ("remixed"). For example, I
found another OER
text called Introduction to Health, which someone has posted to Google
Docs. We can take relevant excerpts from that work and others. So, our plan for producing our
textbook consists of this repeated process of locating, extracting, remixing
and editing existing OER content, spliced and contextualized with our own
supplementary writing as needed.