# Small Actions Bring Big Change ... Small Open Education Action Ideas
**URL:** https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/small-actions-bring-big-change-small-open-education-action-ideas/7399
**Category:** Know About OE Week
**Created:** [February 25, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/small-actions-bring-big-change-small-open-education-action-ideas/7399 "2025-02-25T15:37:03Z")
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### Author:  [@IslaHF](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/IslaHF)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/small-actions-bring-big-change-small-open-education-action-ideas/7399/1 "2025-02-25T15:37:03Z")
In an 1882 letter to his brother Theo, Vincent Van Gogh said:
> [Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh)
It sums up OEWeek, don’t you think?
We have hundreds of activities running this March, and hopefully, by the end of the month, hundreds [more OERs will be added to OEGlobal Connect, the OER Commons, and the OER World Map](https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/assets/).
But everyone is time-starved, especially at the moment – so here I am, asking this incredible community what mini tasks can be done – a small 30-minute ask to make open education that small step closer to achieving open education for all … as much time perhaps as it takes to cut and arrange some sunflowers?
I don’t expect you to do all the thinking. I’ve come up with a few ideas (some of them in the [Event Guidebook](https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/guide/handbook/))…
Get your camera and change how others see the world - add the images under a free licence to:
- [We Like Sharing Open Photo Competition 2025](https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/we-like-sharing-open-photo-competition-2025/)
- [Wiki Loves Africa 2025](https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/wiki-loves-africa-2025/)
- [Wiki Loves Folklore 2025](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2025)
Perhaps … translate an OER into your local language … ?
Or organise a watch party for openly licenced films – some ideas:
- Start with the classic, [Everything is a Remix](https://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series)
- Here’s are a few curated lists of openly licenced films or videos:
- [Open Videos (compiled by Kishwaukee College)](https://guides.kish.edu/oer/open-access-videos)
- [this shorter list from](https://libguides.library.cityu.edu.hk/oer/video) from the Run Run Shaw Library, City University of Hong Kong.
- We could keep it OEWeek and watch [OEWeek Live sessions](https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/series/oe-week-live/) together
- What is your must-watch film? or the TEDx talk no-one should miss?\*
I’d love to hear your thoughts and some of the little things you do to make open education come alive where you are.
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### Author:  [@IslaHF](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/IslaHF)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/small-actions-bring-big-change-small-open-education-action-ideas/7399/2 "2025-03-01T15:19:14Z")
What about adding one needed image at a time - illustrating your town, your campus or your area … using Wiki Shoot Me … fun and simple to use !
[https://wikishootme.toolforge.org/](https://wikishootme.toolforge.org/)
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### Author:  [@OEGconnect](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/OEGconnect)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2025, 2:16am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/small-actions-bring-big-change-small-open-education-action-ideas/7399/3 "2025-03-03T02:16:42Z")
Such fantastic suggestions especially the photo sharing ones, what a better way to share what you see from your spot on the globe.
A few more we have going right here in [OEG Connect as OEWeek Activities to Do](https://connect.oeglobal.org/c/oeweek/oeweek-do/36)
- A [daily remix challenge](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/the-fabulous-remixer-machine-challenge-for-oeweek-2025/7402/1) making use of and brought to use by the Remixer Machine created by @VisualThinkery - WITH PRIZES!
- [Open Petagogy](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/open-petagogy-back-at-oeweek-by-popular-demand/7397) - share your pet photos
- [Share a photo of the place you sit (or stand) during Open Education Week](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/share-the-view-from-where-you-sit-during-open-education-week/7394)
- We love the We like Sharing photo contest so much [we have our own version that anyone can submit photos for](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/we-love-and-we-copy-we-like-sharing/7393/1)
- [Share your favorite local or home recipes and/or photos](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/open-as-in-favorite-food-with-photos-and-recipes/7378)
- [Sunflowers Around the World: Share a Photo as a metaphor of Openness, Resilience](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/sunflowers-around-the-world-share-a-photo-as-a-metaphor-of-openness-resilience/7371)
- [Explore Wikipedia via WikiTok- share what catches your attention](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/explore-wikipedia-via-wikitok-share-what-catches-your-attention/7359)
## Give a Hat Tip!
One of the best acts is in all you do an come cross during Open Education Week to share some thanks and appreciation – make use of the [Remixer Machine’s hat tip to generate and share a small bit of gratitude](https://remixer.visualthinkery.com/a/hattip)
[](https://remixer.visualthinkery.com/r/ei1cBWcPjBKJJvOtrfUw)