Teachers as Makers 2012

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Morning Session

9:00-10:00

• Welcome and Introductions

• Review Goals and Schedule

• Improv Warm Up: Name Gesture Circle and Yellow Ball

• Share Out: Maker Faire takeaways and inspirations
  • Design Lab Photos and Videos
  • Make an OER
  • School of the Future Video by Lexi and Lily

10:00-12:30

• Teaching Process and Community Reflections

• Introduction to online collaboration:
  • Open Educational Resources on OER Commons - access over 30,000 freely available open educational resources (OER) and contribute to OER by tagging, rating, and reviewing resources.
  • How do we define Open Educational Resources (OER)?
    • High quality content and tools
    • Freely available from the internet, anytime, anywhere
    • Available in multiple languages
    • Shareable
    • Usable and re-usable

• Browse OER Materials
• Browse Content Providers
• Advanced Search
• Contribute Content
• Conditions of Use: No Strings Attached, Remix and Share, Share Only, Read the Fine Print

• Resource Highlights:
  • Design Process Video WGBH
  • Physics of Roller Coasters Tech Museum of Innovation Design Challenges
  • Guitar Building MIT Highlights for High School
  • Build Your Own Mobile TeachEngineering

• Search and Explore
  • Teachers as Makers tagged OER on OER Commons

Lunch 12:30-1:00

Afternoon Session

1:00-4:00

Maker Teacher Collaboration

• Maker Projects: Innovative makers inspire teachers with their Maker Projects. Teachers get the opportunity to experience, create, and discuss Maker Projects and reflect on how the ideas covered can be incorporated into their teaching.

• Wrap Up & Reflections

Day 2:

Morning Session:

9:00-12:30

• Warm Up Yes, And Improv Activity: Vacations

• Review Schedule of Day 2

• Sun Curve Challenge: example of a DIY project that inspired teaching around sustainability.

• Tell a story about an example of your teaching around DIY that inspired you in groups of 3

• DIY Design Challenge Activity: Teachers will review the design process and design challenge, and have time to brainstorm and present their design solutions

• Prototype Presentations and feedback

Lunch 12:30-1:00

Afternoon Session:

1:00-4:00

• Create OER using OER Commons Open Author
• Curricular Resources: Search and Tag resources Teachers as Makers, rate, and review resources on OER Commons

• Reflections on Projects, questions, highlights, and next steps

• Wrap Up and Closing