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Adapting a Resource

Getting Organized

Objectives

After completing this unit you will be able to: 

  • Organize, update, and upload resource materials to a project repository.
  • Distinguish between content and descriptive information.

Now that you have confirmed that your adaptation of Answer Checking can be shared, review the resource itself. 

What exactly is a QUBES resource?

"Resource" is a pretty vague work, right up there with "change." QUBES embraces the blurry definition of resources because we believe in a community-driven collection of learning and reference material. What's important is the composition of each resource, the content and the descriptive information. Different disciplines and communities have varying terms and definitions for these ideas. QUBES defines them as follows: 

  • Content: The essential pieces needed to implement the resource, what you will actually download, give to learners, and use as an instructor.
  • Descriptive Information: Everything about the resource that isn't the actual material. 
    • Descriptive Information may also be referred to as "metadata" or data about data. 

Consider your material from the FMN. If you were asked what it was, everything that you say about it is descriptive information.  The actual components you are talking about (the data, the handout, the assessment, etc.) are the content. These distinctions are important when adapting a resource, because to make your work meaningful, you need to communicate exactly what you changed and how you changed it. 

This video will walk you through several resources, highlighting the differences between content and descriptive information. Feel free to increase the playback speed by clicking the "Settings icon" in the menu and then "Playback speed."

Practice

  1. Open the Use Case.
  2. Briefly examine the components of the Use Case.
    1. Components refers to information in each section, files, and URLs.
  3. Complete the Knowledge Check.

Use Case

The materials and context are provided in a Google Document.  The information is not organized, but rather provide you with a real-life use case and associated materials and URLs. 

Use Case

Knowledge Check

Getting Organized

Now that you have distinguished between content and descriptive information, you will upload materials and start adapting! The adaptation process goes much smoother if you are organized and have all materials (content and descriptive information) ready to go before diving in. 

Best Practices on Organization

  • Submit resources from a Project, a private workspace. This provides your work with a permanent home to which you can return for versioning, collaboration, or further adaptations.
  • Create structure in the project repository. Projects have file repositories that can be organized using folder. 
  • Name folders in meaningful ways, particularly if you are collaborating with others. In FMNs, include your last name and a keyword in the folder name. 
  • Upload files to your folder before you start adapting. 

Practice

Just as there are sample materials to work with in this module, there is also a sample project, the Adapting a Resource Sandbox project. You will upload the materials for your adaptation in this project. 

  1. Open the Sandbox Project Repository
  2. Create and name a folder in the repository.
    1. In the Files menu, click the folder icon to create a new folder. 
    2. Replace "untitled" with a name for your folder. 
      1. You may use the existing folder as a model.
    3. Click Save.
  3. Open your folder. 
  4. Upload any files you identified as content to the folder. 
    1. In the Files menu, click "Upload."
    2. Click to select files from your computer, or drag files into the "Click or drop file" rectangle. 
    3. Click "Upload now."
  5. Complete the Knowledge Check. 

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