OER Ambassador - Badge application (Responses)


3	As moderator of the Français Interactif (FI) Facebook page, I regularly remind followers of the FI OER for French-language teaching, and encourage them to report back to the community with the spin-offs and adaptations they have successfully piloted and integrated into their various courses. Many of our followers are not French educators but autodidacts who initially make contact when they are in search of a good OER for teaching themselves French. Within this subcommunity, I often hear back about which aspects of the FI OER were most helpful for them as independent learners. I also use the FI FB platform to promote the more advanced "Enhancing French Skills" OER for those teaching/learning French at a higher level than FI. Since FI is part of COERLL, we also use the community as a platform to share information about other foreign-language OERs hosted at UT Austin. In the past, we have also canvassed our followers to find out what they know about OER, which ones they use/have used and if they have ever made/plan on making their own. Followers will sometimes write to the FB moderator and ask her to share their French-based OERs with the FI community, since the group is robust (~300K) and unites French users from various origins, backgrounds and perspectives.

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As moderator of the Français Interactif (FI) Facebook page, I regularly remind followers of the FI OER for French-language teaching, and encourage them to report back to the community with the spin-offs and adaptations they have successfully piloted and integrated into their various courses. Many of our followers are not French educators but autodidacts who initially make contact when they are in search of a good OER for teaching themselves French. Within this subcommunity, I often hear back about which aspects of the FI OER were most helpful for them as independent learners. I also use the FI FB platform to promote the more advanced "Enhancing French Skills" OER for those teaching/learning French at a higher level than FI. Since FI is part of COERLL, we also use the community as a platform to share information about other foreign-language OERs hosted at UT Austin. In the past, we have also canvassed our followers to find out what they know about OER, which ones they use/have used and if they have ever made/plan on making their own. Followers will sometimes write to the FB moderator and ask her to share their French-based OERs with the FI community, since the group is robust (~300K) and unites French users from various origins, backgrounds and perspectives.