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Hand-colored botanical illustration of a pink hollyhock, red dahlia, and French marigolds.
From The Instructive Picture Book (1858)  |  Public Domain
Biodiversity Heritage Library

Open resources

Resources

Five categories of openly licensed resources, free to use and adapt.

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Badges

Credentialed course packages you can import into any LMS.

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Lessons

Teaching plans and activities for librarians and instructors.

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Objects

Interactive, embeddable digital pieces.

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Toolkits

Outreach

Programming toolkits, displays, and email templates.

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Media

Images, infographics, video, audio, and templates.

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Community space

Communities

Where the people are: communities working the same problems, groups gathering around events, and projects built together.

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Communities of Practice

Ongoing groups working the same problem, like AI literacy or teaching the one-shot. Join in and share what you are trying.

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Groups

Conferences, committees, and project teams. Organizers gather their people and the resources presented in one place.

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Projects

Work a community takes on together, and the resources and outputs it produces.

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Free utilities

The Tool Shed

Small, free, openly licensed tools for educators. More on the way.

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Icon finder

Search 1,800+ openly licensed icons and copy or download them. Free, no attribution required.

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Accessibility checker

Check any web page against WCAG with axe-core, right in your browser. Nothing leaves your device.

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Lo-Fi Day impact calculator

Estimate the reach of a Low-Sensory Lo-Fi Day event for a report or proposal.

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Help BLOOM grow

BLOOM grows when we build it together. Set up a free account to contribute resources, try out what others have made, join a community of practice, and share your own work.

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BLOOM's site code is open on GitHub. Everything here is openly licensed, so your contributions stay yours to keep, reuse, and host anywhere.

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