Armory Center for the Arts

From OER Commons Wiki

Together with the the Armory Center for the Arts, ISKME is pleased to present an interactive workshop for teaching artists centered around emerging trends in curriculum development and sharing. The workshop will engage participants in enhancing their digital learning and social networking skills through using online resources and collaborative tools for teachers to share with their peers and students.

In addition to focusing on the use of Open Educational Resources (OER), the training aims to support a multi-disciplinary and arts integration focus. OER, which are resources freely available to use, and in many cases to reuse, offer instructors new ways to continuously improve existing resources and to author and share their own lessons, teaching strategies, and art forms. The dynamic, accessible nature of OER inspires innovation in the classroom and may help address some of the challenges related to the equitable access to high-quality arts-based learning in the K-12 classroom. Collaboration and sharing among teachers, artists, teaching artists, and arts community leaders is integral for the future of arts education.

Participants will gain:

• Hands-on arts-related and multi-disciplinary approaches to learning using experiential techniques
• Open access to lessons and other materials that support learning, especially in the arts
• Experience with finding and sharing resources with others and using online networking and digital media tools and methods
• Practice in resource search and identification, and an introduction to licensing that makes content legal to adapt and share online
• Continued online support and networking through the OER Commons site and education programs
• Opportunities to connect and collaborate with teachers internationally

Pre-workshop Activities:

1. Register for an OER Commons account at http://www.oercommons.org. Once registered will receive a confirmation email. Click on the link in the confirmation email to log in.
2. Join the ArtsCollab here: http://oerarts.ning.com/
3. Bring or email megan@iskme.org a learning resource in electronic form that you have made and would like to share (a lesson plan, activity, image, video, etc.)

Workshop Outline

• Introductions

• Warm Up Activity
• OER Commons overview – an interactive presentation and discussion covering what teachers are doing with OER and how can it impact participant’s teaching
  • Creating OER using a wiki and sharing it on OER Commons
    • Inquiry into Poetry
    • Season Storytelling
    • Judy Shintani's blog Kitsune
  • Collaborating using ArtsCollab OER ArtsCollab Ning

• Contributing to the OER Community Activity – participants will be guided through the process of adding metadata (ratings, reviews, and tags) and content to OER Commons and have time to explore the site and add their own online learning resource that they would like to share with the community

• Reflections and Group Discussion about Challenges and Social Impacts related to Open Content and Arts Teaching and Learning

• Wrap Up

Example OER