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Welcome
Welcome to OpenLessons, teacher's lesson plans using open source software!

This Wiki is a collaborative effort between teachers, open source advocates, parents, students, basically anyone who is interested in helping teachers worldwide incorporate open source software into their lesson plans. Our goal is for teachers to submit lesson plans they already have, and then open source advocates, other teachers already using open source applications, and others can add open source applications and links to them and other Internet resources that enhance the lesson plans and improve the integration of computer technology into 21st century classrooms.

On this main page, feel free to list ideas, suggestions, goals, or links to other similar resources relating to the use of Open Source applications in lesson plans.

Idea: Add duration and curriculum element to template and search curriculum Idea: Add an area to allow teachers to link to their own curriculum wiki's

This Site is a Wiki
This site is a "wiki," which means it is intended for everyone to have a chance to read and to contribute. For more information on wikis, please look here. A good example of a wiki that many people are familiar with is Wikipedia. Wikis can allow anyone to edit any page that they want to. While it might seem that allowing many people the ability to work on, modify, or overwrite each others work would result in chaos, it actually can work amazingly well.

How to Participate
K12OpenSource is hosted at the free (advertising-supported) Wikispaces service. Wikispaces make the editing of a wiki very easy to do. You don't actually need a user account to help build or edit the wiki, but if you get one first it helps to track the changes you make. Either way, you click on the "edit" button to edit the page. This may seem scary at first, but give it a try! Once you have finished your edits to a page, then just click "Preview" to make sure everything is OK, then click "Save." You now have contributed to a wiki!