Diana Darnell: SDB/LEADER Archivist

L ibrary of E ducational A nnotated DE velopmental biology R esources
A searchable, peer-reviewed, collection of digital Learning Objects available through:

• Have you ever had to teach (or learn) something you didn’t already know well and wished a colleague could recommend an appropriate Learning Object?
• Peer reviewed Learning Objects give you and your students confidence & teach responsible web research skills
• Links to related Learning Objects and papers can create networks of useful material.
• Metadata can help you refine your search productively!

•A Learning Object is any item you could use in teaching or learning, such as:
An active learning exercise, animation, assessment tool, audio file, course syllabus, curriculum, dataset, diagram, digital presentation (PowerPoint), exam, field trip guide, figure, glossary, graph, homework assignment, illustration, image, laboratory exercise, lecture or lecture outline, movie, non-lab exercise, origami exercise, photograph, podcast, Q&A set for clickers, review, simulation, teaching strategy, textbook, video file, web page, Xray…

• Think about something you have developed to improve learning for your (DB) students.
• Think about the amount of time you put into making it useful and clear.
• Think how great it would be to extend the benefit of that effort beyond your students!
• Think how much better you might make your
LO while you are tweaking it for submission!

• Go to the APS web page:
• http://www.apsarchive.org
Click here

Click here

Because we are in the process of changing our current software, the official
SDB pages can’t yet link your LO and metadata to the database. For now you need to disguise yourself as an
APS submitter and send me an email so I can recognize you in your disguise and reroute you to the SDB reviewers: darnell@email.arizona.edu
Check here
Then click here

Add your title
A short description
A helpful suggestion
Click here to advance
For each page, fill in the blanks with text or selections
From a given list. These are text boxes.

Highlight all fields that could benefit from your LO. These become search terms.
The command/apple key lets you pick several at once.
Click Add to select

Click here to add your name
And names of other contributors.
When finished adding folks,
Click Submit.

Select authors/contributors, or
Click here to add contributors

Fill in the blanks. The red asterisks indicate required fields but if you can put everything in that would be appreciated.
Click Add and then go back to the Authors list and select the author you just added

Every LO must have a first author (contact person). If there is no publisher, then the first author becomes the publisher of record.
Once you’ve added everyone, return to Author
Information and select Done adding Authors.
This will take you to the technical
Information page

Pick the format that matches your LO (use the pulldown) and list special requirements.
Then, either enter the URL of your LO if it is online, or upload the file onto our server.
Next stop: Educational Information

Make your selections from the educational options provided. Click
Add/Modify to see the
Selection lists or use the
Pulldown arrow.
These and other choices form the metadata that others will use to select your
LO from the BEN and
NSDL archives.

Highlight all terms that would help someone find your LO if they were wishing and searching for something just like it.
Consider if parts might be used separately and create links for those, too.

Recommend appropriate educational levels for your LO.
Highlight, then
Add. Remember, several levels may be appropriate.

Try to imagine how other
Teachers/students might use your LO at the ages you selected. Select all appropriate options. Highlight and Add.

If you picked a K-12 age group and you know which standard
Your LO applies to, click add and select it. Otherwise, leave this blank.

If there are restrictions on the use of this LO, say so here. I usually recommend that the author be acknowledged.

A short movie, syllabus, lab, exam or other single item would go here
Groups of things with no order go here
Groups with an order go here
Your class web page goes here

If you are submitting several LOs that work together (such as a lab, study guide and quiz), link them together here.
If your LO builds on someone else’s, link them together here.
If you (or others) have published on this LO, say so here.

Yeah! You’re done, unless you would like to change anything.
If so, do it now.

To get your LO shifted into the LEADER archive, send me an email with your title or
LO number.
darnell@email.arizona.edu
I’ll send it to 2 reviewers and let you know their comments.
Accepted LOs become peer-reviewed, online publications.

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."
Margaret Mead

Reviewers Evaluating LOs look for:
Scientific Accuracy
Sufficient LO narrative (could others use it correctly?)
Background/supportive sources listed
Educational Relevancy
Pedagogical Effectiveness
Appropriate animal use and care instructions
Technical details (grammar, links okay?)
Appropriate metadata

Send me an email ( darnell@email.arizona.edu
) with your name, department, institution, phone number and areas of expertise/interest.

Sign in (for tracking)
Put in key words & level
Or other metadata
Browse the LOs that fit
Pick one and check it out!