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If you are looking for ARTS-RELATED educational tools, view the OER and Arts Education wiki page.

If you are looking for SCIENCE-RELATED educational tools, view the OER & Science Education wiki page.

Otherwise, all OER Projects & Workshops are listed in chronological order below. Join in by adding new OER projects to this list:

ISKME's OER Commons Collaborations and Educator Training Programs:

ISKME Education Programs PDF 2012

• Open Education Week Webinar OER in Action: New tools and use examples from ISKME's OER Professional Development Program March 8, 2012
• Virtual Educa OER Training March 2, 2012 Paramaribo, Suriname
• Creative to the Core: Reformatting Writing Genres Through Art and Science January 18 and February 1, 2012 at the De Young Museum and the Cal Academy of Sciences San Francisco, CA

2011

• OER Fellowship 2011 Program: Fall 2011 to Fall 2012
• Green Lab OER Training Sanchez Elementary School October 26, 2011 San Francisco, CA
• Teachers as Makers 2011: ISKME Professional Development Summer Academy Summer/Fall 2011 San Mateo, CA Detroit, MI New York, NY
• Library Summer Camp Santa Clara County Office of Education August 5, 2011 San Jose, CA
• Peralta Community College District OER Training August 18, 2011 Oakland, CA
• AISD Austin Independent School District Staff Development: Secondary English Language Arts August 16, 2011 Crockett High School Austin, TX
• Science, Literacy, Arts iNtegration, & Technology SLANT Summer Institute, San Francisco Unified School District San Francisco, CA June 17, 2011
• Saint Mary's Faculty Tech Camp at Saint Mary's College of California Moraga, CA May 26, 2011
• ISKME's Design Lab 2011 at Maker Faire, San Mateo, Detroit and New York May-September 2011
• Greek Spring School Collaborative Learning and Sharing about Politics: Digital Storytelling and Web2.0 Tools to Enrich EU Citizenship and Activate Engagement and Dialogue April 10-16 2011, Chania, Crete, Greece
• OSR Open Science Resources Online Workshop: Creating Informal Learning Pathways March, 2011
• The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's 2011 Open Educational Resources Grantees Meeting, OER 2011: The Impact of Open on Teaching and Learning March 29-31, 2011 at Cavallo Point Lodge, Sausalito, CA
• Council of Math/Science Educatorsof San Mateo County CMSESMC Spring Conference ISKME's STEAM Design Challenge: Incorporating Art into Multi-disciplinary Learning March 5, 2011 Redwood City, CA
• Roadtrip Nation Design Workshop February 18, 2011 Laguna, CA
• Science, Literacy, Arts iNtegration in the Twenty-first century (SLANT) Follow Up: Projection & Assessment January 29, 2011 at San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco, CA

2010

• OER Fellowship Program: Fall 2010 to Summer 2011
• Teachers as Makers: ISKME Professional Development Summer Academy Summer/Fall 2010 San Mateo, CA Detroit, MI New York, NY
• SFUSD Summer Institute: Science, Literacy, Arts iNtegration in the Twenty-first century (SLANT) July 19-23, 2010 Cal Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
• Math Bootcamp: July 6-9, 2010 Corte Madera School, 4575 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, CA
• ISKME's Design Lab: Make the School of the Future at Maker Faire May 21-23, 2010 San Mateo County Event Center, San Mateo, CA
• Cunha Laptop Project begining May 2010 Cunha Intermediate School, Half Moon Bay, CA
• Educational Technology Consortium Open Source in Education, Free! Access! Equity! April 13, 2010 Santa Clara County Office of Education, Santa Clara, CA
• Innovation Workshop March 23, 2010 Moss Beach, CA
• NSTA: National Science Teachers Association Conference Workshop: STEAM: Incorporating Art into Cross-curricular Science Learning March 18-21, 2010 Philadelphia

• Sanchez School Green Lab Workshop March 11, 2010 San Francisco, CA

• Armory Center for the Arts Workshop February 2, 2010 Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

• Arts For All Workshop: Open Educational Resources and Arts Education, January 19, Culver City Unified School District, CA

• New Teacher Center Course Mechanisms for Change: Remixing and Sharing OER, Winter 2010

2009

• Sun Curve Challenge: ISKME announces the Sun Curve Design Challenge, a partnership with
  
  ‎ INKA, the creator of the Sun Curve hydroponic garden and laboratory and ISKME's OER Commons project, to challenge teachers and students to produce new OER materials and incorporate green design thinking into the classroom.
  

• Science, Design, and OER Academy: Integrating and Sharing Teacher-Led Curriculum with a Multi-disciplinary approach to science inquiry, green design, food production, and OER processes in the K-12 classroom, using the Sun Curve hydroponic garden and laboratory as a point of departure and discovery.

• OER and Arts Education as Social Justice Project
  

• ISKME's OER Academy on Arts Integration: Integrating and Sharing Teacher-Led Curriculum in the Arts and arts integration using Social Collaboration and Multi-disciplinary approaches in the K-12 classroom.

• International OER Exchange Pilot Phase II: The Pollen Project, 2009: The next phase of our teacher exchange across the continents as we prepare to concentrate in plant biology investigation and implications for climate change.

• Media in the Classroom: Performing Arts workshop November 14, 2009 at KQED in San Francisco, CA
  

• Menlo School Workshop November 11, 2009 at Menlo School in Atherton, CA
  

• Teaching Artist Institute Online and In-the-know: Online Educational Resources for Teaching Artists, Saturday November 7, 2009
  

• San Mateo County Office of Education Middle School and High School Math Teachers Workshop October 1, 2009 Redwood City, CA

• Synapse Institute Workshop: August 7, 2009 Palo Alto, CA

• New Media Consortium Conference 2009 Workshop: "Using Open Content and the Collaboratory Model for Real-World Science Learning," June 12, 2009, Monterey, California. The NMC Summer Conference is a one-of-a-kind event, attracting an audience of highly skilled professionals who are very knowledgeable about and interested in the integration of emerging technologies into teaching, learning, and creative expression.

• World Congress on Computers in Agriculture 2009 Workshop: "Open Educational Resources and Learning Repositories for Agriculture, Food and Environment", June 23, 2009, Reno, Nevada. This one-day workshop is aimed at bringing together educational, technology, and content stakeholders that are producing, developing and/or publishing online learning resources on agriculture, food and environment, framing a discussion on the rich potential, challenges and opportunities of online learning repositories and Open Educational Resources in these areas, and engaging participants in OER processes.

• MetaSchool 2009 Workshop "Open Educational Resources and Climate Change Study", Crete, Greece, July 6-10, 2009. Using science resources, learning about the Collaboratory model for teaching and "doing science", and applying principles of OER to climate change study in the K-12 classroom.

• From STEM to STEAM: Incorporating the Arts and OER into Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, 2009, an ongoing project focused on Multi-disciplinary approaches to STEM teaching and learning and the use of open content.

2008

• International OER Exchange Pilot: Our 2008 program with middle school science teachers in several countries to learn to share curriculum and student projects about climate change study.

• BioQUEST SCOPE and OER: Exploring the Methods of SCOPE and the interactions with OER: An in-depth training with biology faculty, including video clips, on using the collaboratory model and OER to engage in investigative case-based learning, as part of the NSF-supported SCOPE project.* View How and Why of OER, a narrated slide presentation about the importance and potential benefits of OER and how to use OER Commons. The transcript is here.

• Learn about Stanford Summer Teaching Institute 2008, "OER and Web 2.0 in the Classroom": Our summer teacher training program focusing on open teacher-led curriculum, social networking, and many common digital and online applications, such as flickr, podcasts, or del.icio.us, that teachers can easily learn to integrate into their practice.

• CSTA Collaborative Networking and Open Resources for Teaching Investigative Science: A presentation and interactive introduction to OER and contemporary science in the K-12 classroom, from the California Science Teachers Association, 2008 Conference.

• ISKME EdForum May 2008: "From Collaboratories to Public Space: Bringing the World to Students and Putting Classrooms in the Wild": View video clips from ISKME's 2008 EdForum that focused on authentic learning experiences in science and using technology.

• MELT Summer School Project: An international project and workshop based in Europe for K-12 teachers to engage with resources that can "travel well" across regions.

ISKME Research and Frameworks for OER

• OER Case Study Project: A in-depth study of six OER projects around the world to develop a model of continuous improvement for project leaders to be able to integrate into their projects and share their lesson learned with others.
• OER Case Study Framework: Research results led to the development of a case study model and toolkit for continuous improvement and self-evaluation of OER projects.
• Open Textbook Project: A year-long project based at Foothill-DeAnza Community College examining models for and usage of open textbooks at the community college level.
• OER Spotlight: Free High School Science Texts (FHSST): Enjoy these short video clips of interviews with FHSST founder Mark Horner. Hear his experiences in starting a grassroots collaborative open textbook project in South Africa.

Bridging Projects: Stories, Questions, Meetings, Plans

• OER Storytelling Project
• OER Community Meeting Attendees Project Template
• OER Steering Committee Planning

OER Projects by Others

(Feel free to create a project summary wiki page about your OER project and link to it here)

• Open.Michigan - The University of Michigan's Open Educational Resources initiative.
• eLangdell - Education Commons for law schools
• Eurogene - Open Educational Resources in the domain of genetics.

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