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Contents 1 OER Summer Teaching Academy 1.1 Goals of OER Teacher Training: 1.2 Teachers will gain skills to be able to: 2 Join ISKME’s OER Summer Teaching Academy 2.1 Participants will gain: 2.1.1 Instructors: 2.2 Pre-Workshop Activities: 3 Schedule: 3.1 Day 1: 3.1.1 Teacher Process Concept Map 3.1.2 OER Presentation: 3.1.3 OER Commons Tutorial 3.1.4 Storytelling Activity 3.2 Day 2 3.2.1 Collaborative Tools 3.2.2 Inquiry into Poetry 3.2.3 Arts Integration Brainstorming 3.3 Next steps 3.3.1 Cesar: 3.3.2 Leah: 3.3.3 Jeanetta: 3.3.4 Judy:

OER Summer Teaching Academy

How can you collaborate with your colleagues, advance your teaching with social learning, and tap into resources that fit your classroom needs?

What strategies and tools support finding and sharing materials online that are free, and freely adaptable?

How does teacher-led curriculum and sharing using social collaboration advance teaching and student learning, especially in the arts and interdisciplinary learning?

How can students express contemporary social justice issues through multi-disciplinary art projects?

What benefits might open-source content offer to arts education?

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This two-day OER Summer Teaching Academy is co-presented by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management of Education (ISKME), located in Half Moon Bay, CA, and Mills College School of Education, as part of ISKME's Open Educational Resources (OER) in Arts and Social Justice initiative supported by the Ford Foundation.

Through the OER Commons initiative (www.oercommons.org), ISKME is offering teacher professional development training using innovative open-source, teacher-led approaches. The trainings aim to engage teachers in participatory learning strategies and enhancing digital learning 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, our training aim is to support a multi-disciplinary and arts integration focus. We engage teachers in modeling investigative project-based learning activities and experiential arts and design approaches for the classroom that can be adapted to work across disciplines.

Goals of OER Teacher Training:

• Improve teachers’ awareness of Open Educational Resources
• Improve teachers’ professional skills so they can integrate technological resources into their class curriculum
• Encourage teacher collaboration, leadership and development of OER
• Promote inquiry problem-based approach to investigative learning through creating and modeling resource improvement for students
• Support teachers’ needs in the classroom for both materials and collaborative supports, especially online
• Empower teachers and students to take an active role in educational resource reform, both locally and in Internet-based collaborative environments

Teachers will gain skills to be able to:

1. Collaborate to integrate and share knowledge and resources across web sites or repositories about their own relevant issues
2. Improve their search and find strategies and their familiarity with resource metadata
3. Add metadata such as tags and reviews of resources to guide other teachers
4. Attach pedagogical information to resources, including information about how resources have been used
5. Participate in aligning resources with curriculum standards
6. Modify and localize existing open resources and share derivative works and learning outputs for others to use
7. Improve and create resources in the context of doing investigation and experiential learning with their students
8. Use technology and tools to model and participate in creative social learning
9. Understand copyright licensing, for example using creative commons licenses to share their work.
10. Use a social collaboration environment and/or investigative problem space for resource creation and improvement

Join ISKME’s OER Summer Teaching Academy

Integrating and Sharing Teacher-Led Curriculum in the Arts using Social Collaboration (all grades)

When: August 3 - 4 | Mon - Tue | 9:00am - 4:00pm

Where: Mills College, Oakland

Fee: No fee; Space is limited to 20 participants

Participants will gain:

• Hands-on art and multi-disciplinary approaches to learning using easy-to-procure materials
• 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

Instructors:

ISKME: Amee Godwin, Director, Strategic Initiatives and digital media and open education leader; Megan Simmons, Education Program Manager and K-12 educator; Judy Shintani, artist, arts educator, and arts research consultant; plus special guest presenters.

To enroll and for more info, contact: Megan Simmons, ISKME's Education Program Manager megan@iskme.org or 650.728.3322

This workshop is free of charge for 20 teachers.

Please provide the following information: Name; Email; School, Subject, and Grade taught; and if you will be bringing your own laptop

Breakfast and snacks provided by ISKME. Participants are responsible for bringing their own lunch.

Pre-Workshop Activities:

• Register for an OER Commons account here. Once registered will receive a confirmation email. Click on the link in the confirmation email to log in.
• Bring a learning resource that you have made (a lesson plan, activity, image, video, etc.)

Schedule:

Day 1:

Breakfast 9:00-9:15

Part 1: OER and the Arts

Morning Session 9:15-10:30

• Introductions
• Icebreaker Activity: Partner Interviews and Presentations
• Prompt Line Exercise

• What does open mean to you? Activity

Morning Break 10:30-10:45

Morning Session 10:45-12:30

Teacher Process Concept Map

Teaching Process Activity

Leah's Teaching Process

Jeanetta's Teaching Process

Judy's Teaching Process

Cesar's Teaching Process

Katina's Teaching Process

Lunch Break 12:30-1:00

Afternoon Session 1:00-4:00

OER Presentation:

• OER Movement Timeline
• OER Process

OER Commons Tutorial

• Search, find, tag, rate, review
  • What is Inquiry?
  • Inquiry Structure
  • artsacademy OER
  • Arts and Social Justice OER
  • Art as Inquiry OER
    • Writing Exercises
    • Jazz Listening Activity
    • Using Ratios with Color Mixing

• Arts Integration Project Examples:

For students to be successful in the 21st century global economy they need to acquire the skills developed through study of the arts, such as creativity and innovation; critical thinking and problem solving; communication and collaboration; flexibility and adaptability; and social and cross cultural skills. Partnership for 21st Century Skills

According to Americans for the Arts, students who participate in the arts are more likely to be recognized for academic achievement and more likely to participate in a math and science fair. Arts education also helps students develop a sense of craftsmanship, quality task performance, and goal-setting. Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math subjects are all intertwined and complementary.

Science provides a personal understanding of a universal experience, and art provides a universal understanding of a personal experience. - Mae Jemison, astronaut, doctor, art collector, dancer at the TED Conference, February 2002 http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/mae_jemison_on_teaching_arts_and_sciences_together.html

STEAM 21st Century Skills

Sun Curve Challenge Design Process/Understanding Science

Storytelling Activity

This storytelling activity started out with template for a story with many sections missing. We went around the circle, with each person filling in different blank spots. Below is the final product our group created. After completing our tale, half of us did a drawing to represent the story, which is also below. The other group acted out the story and performed it for the rest of the group.

• Discussion: What OER has to offer: motivations. opportunities, and challenges

• Reflections

Day 2

Breakfast 9:00-9:15

Part 2: Collaborative Tools

Morning Session 9:15-10:30

• Sharing Warm Up Improv Activities: Sound Toss, Yellow Ball, and Sharing is Good/Bad Exercise

Collaborative Tools

• How can we share?
  • Using tools for workflow and communications management
  • Components of social collaboration: discussions, blogging, groups, tagging, feedback, incentives
    • OER: Integrating the Arts Ning: a site where the OER Arts Collaboratory can meet and post discussion topics, photos, videos, blogs, etc.

Morning Break 10:30-10:45

Morning Session 10:45-12:30

• Sharing OER Activity: Create and Share an OER.

• Reflections: How does collaborating with open improve learning?

Lunch 12:30-1:00

Afternoon Session 1:00-4:00

Part 3: Theme Projects and Collaboration

• Brainstorming and Idea Sharing
• Project Work Time

Part 4: Project Presentations

Inquiry into Poetry

Cesar Sometimes the topic of poetry is not received with enthusiasm by a classroom of high school students. What has worked for me in the past is to have a set of simple questions in regards to poetry itself, answered by my students (the 5 w's? + how?). There are no wrong answers because poetry means different things to different people. After the answers to the questions have been written on the board ( or butcher paper) and explored, I present a bilingual poem that includes everyday things ( such as bread). I have used Roque Dalton's "Como tu," "Like you," in the past.

Arts Integration Brainstorming

• Eco Art / Earth Works: Art OER that can be integrated into science and language lessons
  • Featured Artists:
    • Andy Goldworthy Work In Progress: Andy Goldsworthy and Eco Mandalas
    • Jim Denevan and Chris Drury All Natural

• Cultural Art: can be integrated into ESL lessons
  • Interviewing Artists- retelling, speaking and listening
  • Jazz Resources on OER Commons [1]
  • Calisphere: California Digital Library [2]

• Math and Art

Math and Art Resources on OER Commons [3]

• Reflections

Next steps

Cesar:

• Involve students - Have students post their poems with the activity as student output examples. Have students post bilingual poems.
• Next lesson - How is poetry created?
• Involve his community of educators (other teachers, artists, poets, solar power expert friend in Mexico, Rock-Paper-Scissors Organization [4], Oakland Museum of California
• Keep in touch with Leah and Jeanetta. Cesar would like to connect his High School students to elementary school students and have his students teach them something.

Leah:

• Using OER Commons to supplement lessons, finding new subjects, inspiration
• Draw art into lessons
• Community of educators. Reaching out to different community organizations, field trips, classroom presents. Have students interact with community, parents.
• Is interested in having older students come in and present to her students.

Jeanetta:

• Has saved some searches on OER Commons to use in her classroom
• Would like to create and modify lessons on OER Commons, have students help
• Still looking for structure of curriculum, structure, routing, pedagogy, that can be used over and over like the 5 w's, song of the week, artist of the month
• Community of Educators - Junior Center of Art and Sciences, Oakland Museum, colleagues, students parents that are artists, students

Judy:

• Inspired to post more lessons on OER Commons and to show how they can be used with other subjects
• Will add her teaching process to the wiki
• Will continue to be involved with teachers through the Ning

• Feedback Survey: Participants share feedback on the training, what they liked and what could be improved.

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