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.