OER

=Free Digital Resources to Enhance Your Instruction- Open Education Resources (OER)=

Agenda: http://ilearnnyc.wikispaces.com/oer

Description: Participants will explore open educational resources (OER) to utilize for teaching, learning, or research. Identify and explore digital textbooks, course readings for blended learning courses as well as assessment tools.

Goals: Agenda:
 * Find Open educational resources (OER)
 * Locate lesson plans, digital textbooks, course readings, for blended learning courses as well as assessment tools.
 * Utilize for teaching, learning, or research
 * Copyright Overview
 * Welcome and[| Icebreaker__]

Open educational resources (OER) are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching, learning, research, and other purposes.
 * What are Open Educational Resources?
 * [|OER Video__]
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 * [|The Past, Present and Future of Education__] ( Infographic)

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 * [|Open educational resources__]
 * Implications
 * Pros
 * Cons


 * Enhance your teaching
 * F2F or Blended/Online
 * Utilize for teaching, learning, or research
 * Differentiate Instruction

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 * How can they be used in your classroom?
 * Open Educational Resources for K-12 (OER):
 * [|http://www.edutopia.org/open-educational-resources-guid__]
 * Instructional Resources:
 * [|LessonPlanet__]: Teacher-Vetted Open Educational Resources (OER)
 * [|ReadWriteThink__]: provides educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction
 * [|Share My Lesson__]: Classroom resources for grades K-12, ranging from in-depth lesson plans to presentations and test prep—many of them uploaded by teachers, and all of them available for free.
 * Hands on Activity 1


 * Small groups review OER Lessons
 * Select a lesson that would work for your subject/grade level.
 * [|Share on Padlet__]


 * Visual OER
 * [|Moving Image Archive__]: A large collection of movies, films and videos that are all free to use.
 * [|The Open Video Project:__] A repository of open access digitized videos for education and learning purposes.
 * [|Flickr: Creative Commons__]: A collection of images published on Flickr using a Creative Commons license.
 * [|NY Public Library Digital Gallery__]: Open access to over 700,000 digital images from the New York Public Library's collections.
 * [|U.S. Government Photos and Images__]: A vast collection of photos and images from the U.S. Government, many of which are in the public domain and free to use.


 * Hands Activity 2 Jig-Saw:
 * Each group is assigned a site
 * How will you implement?
 * [|Share on Padlet__]

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 * [|OER Commons__]
 * [|Curriki__]
 * [|Hippocampus__]
 * [|Khan Academy__]
 * [|Ck12__][|__Braingenie__]
 * [|Open Ed__]
 * Share Out


 * Closing
 * Q & A

Session Resources: > > > > > > > > > > > >
 * [|OER Handbook for Educators__]
 * [|Open Tapestry__]: over 100,000 open licensed online learning resources for an academic and general audience
 * [|OER Commons__]: over 40,000 open educational resources from elementary school through to higher education; resources are aligned to the Common Core State Standards
 * [|Copyright & Open Licensing FAQ__]
 * [|Copyright Basics__]
 * [|TED Ed__]-Use engaging videos on TED-Ed to create customized lessons. You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons
 * [|Project Gutenberg__]-Project Gutenberg offers over 53,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.

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