{"id":4674,"date":"2021-02-05T12:16:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T19:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=4674"},"modified":"2021-02-07T22:12:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T05:12:22","slug":"ck-12-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2021\/02\/05\/ck-12-open-source\/","title":{"rendered":"CK-12 Open Source"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CK-12 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ck12.org\/teacher\/\">https:\/\/www.ck12.org\/teacher\/<\/a>) is a free open-source website that has FlexBooks, simulations, study guides, practice questions, and more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their mission is to &#8220;provide free access to open-source content and technology tools that empower students as well as teachers to enhance and experiment with different learning styles, resources, levels of competence, and circumstances.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They provide translations in 6 different languages and their resources go from kindergarten to college-level Math and Sciences. Pictures, videos, hyperlinked vocabularies, and flashcards make it easier for students to visualize and access content. I&#8217;ve used their interactive simulations\/games for online lessons and my students reacted quite positively. Labs and simulations can be done with their own devices and students can do the same activity even though they are not physically in the classroom together. It&#8217;s a great resource to try out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s an example of what their FlexBooks look like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/02\/image-8-1024x789.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4678\" width=\"565\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/02\/image-8-1024x789.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/02\/image-8-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/02\/image-8-768x592.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/02\/image-8.png 1120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/02\/image-10-1024x824.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4680\" width=\"570\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/02\/image-10-1024x824.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/02\/image-10-300x241.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/02\/image-10-768x618.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/02\/image-10.png 1055w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CK-12 (https:\/\/www.ck12.org\/teacher\/) is a free open-source website that has FlexBooks, simulations, study guides, practice questions, and more! Their mission is to &#8220;provide free access to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2021\/02\/05\/ck-12-open-source\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CK-12 Open Source<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":83143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobileeducation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4674"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4689,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674\/revisions\/4689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}