Tools and Resources 

This chapter gathers all of the tools, templates, and links referenced throughout the textbook and course in one convenient place. Use this page to revisit tutorials, access templates, and explore recommended platforms for creating, editing, and aligning your chapters.

Writing Learning Objectives

• Measurable Objectives and Instructional Alignment – Learn how to write and align learning objectives in instruction.

• Bloom’s Taxonomy Action Verbs – Useful for writing measurable learning outcomes.

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OER Discovery 

• Find Open Education Resources (OER) – Find openly licensed or public domain images and materials using links in this chapter.
  

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Copyright & Licensing

• Creative Commons License Chooser – Generate a CC license for your own work.

• CC License Compatibility Chart – Choose a compatible license for your remixed OER.

• Recommended Practices for Attribution – Write an attribution statement with complete TASL.

• Student Creator Rights – Know your rights as a student author/creator in open pedagogy.

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Authoring & Design Tools

• Pressbooks – Platform for creating and publishing open textbooks.

  • Pressbooks User Guide

  • Accessible Images in Pressbooks (scroll down to find)

  • Alt Text, Captions, and Image Descriptions

  • Pressbooks User Guide – Media

  • Image size and resolution in Pressbooks

  • Update Your User Profile

• Outlines for chapters – Use the outlines to structure and write your chapters

  • Theory Chapter Draft template

  • Theorist Chapter Draft template

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Interactive H5P Content

• H5P – Tool for building interactive learning objects such as quizzes, accordions, drag-and-drops, and more.

  • H5P authoring guides 

• H5P Examples Lookbook – Browse examples of H5P content types with best practices.

  • All H5P types

    4.6 H5P for Presenting Your Content

  • 4.7 H5P for Formative Assessment

  • 4.8 H5P for Reflection and Deep Learning

• Lumi – Desktop tool for creating H5P interactive content offline and uploading to Pressbooks.

AI Framework and Tools

• CRAFT Discussion Strategy – A reflective framework to support ethical and intentional use of AI.

• AI tools for text generation – Use with transparency and critical analysis to brainstorm or revise.

  • ChatGPT

  • Claude

  • Gemini

  • Copilot.

• AI tools for image generation

  • 10 Best Image Generators for Teachers in 2025

  • Canva’s Dream Lab

• AI for podcast generation

  • Google Notebook LM How-to video – Generate a podcast (among other things)

• AI tools for visualizations

  • Canva

  • Whimsical.ai

  • GitMind AI

  • MyMapAI

• AI Attribution Builder– Generate an AI attribution statement to transparently state how AI was used in your creation.

• ASU’s Image Accessibility Creator – generate alt text and image descriptions for your images

Resources for staying up-to-date on AI

• The Rundown newsletter
• Latent Space podcast