Performing Arts

From OER Commons Wiki

KQED Education Network and The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education present a dynamic training session tailored to K-12 arts educators' and teaching artists' needs.

Participants will gain:

• Tools to incorporate media related to the performing arts into curricula.
• Hands-on performing arts and multi-disciplinary approaches to teaching and learning using materials available for free online.
• Open access to lessons and other materials that support arts classrooms.
• Experience finding and sharing resources with others 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 "Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons" web site and education program.

Participants will also receive free KQED content on DVD, including 20 short documentaries about Bay Area performing artists and arts organizations.

About KQED Education Network and ISKME:

KQED Education Network engages with community and educational organizations to broaden and deepen the impact of KQED media to effect positive change. Education Network reaches more than 200,000 Bay Area residents a year and partners with educational and community organizations, early childhood education programs, youth media programs, schools and school districts, colleges and universities, and the California Department of Education.

The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (www.iskme.org) is an independent, nonprofit research institute that conducts social science research in education, develops research-based innovations, and facilitates field building to improve knowledge sharing. ISKME’s training and professional development supports teachers and schools in effective uses of digital content and collaboration as part of a larger model for systemic change in education through knowledge sharing. Supported by the Ford Foundation, ISKME is building partnerships with leaders of teacher education centers, districts, schools, cultural and governmental organizations to support open, equitable, and high-quality arts participation in K-12 classrooms.

Workshop Facilitators:

• Kristin Farr, Project Supervisor, Arts Education, KQED Education Network
• Megan Simmons, Education Program Manager, Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) megan@iskme.org
• Judy Shintani, teaching artist and ISKME OER and Arts Education Fellow

Workshop Schedule:

• Introductions

• Warm-up activity – Improv Activities

• View playlist of Performing Arts videos from KQED

• Downloading and Re-mixing Podcasts in iTunes

• Interactive Discussion and Presentation Introducing Open and OER Commons (What is open and What are the benefits)
  • Highlighted Resources:
    • The Art of Black Dance and Music Perform Dances from the Harvest Festival Kwanzaa WGBH Open Vault
    • Holding a Poetry Slam and Rhythm, Patterns, Color, and Texture in Art and Poetry LearnNC
    • The Mandan Buffalo Dance Smithsonian Institutions
    • Omaha Indian Arts Library of Congress
    • SF Arts Commission Lessons
    • The Kennedy Center ArtsEdge Lesson Plans and Jazz Resources
    • You Kiss by the Book': Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet National Endowment for the Arts
    • From Page to Stage PBS
    • Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education
    • Building Video Literacy Sound Teacher's Domain

• Explore OER Commons and Share-Out

• Online Collaboration
  • How teachers, teaching artists, and arts community leaders are collaborating with OER
    • Tagging, rating, and reviewing OER on OER Commons [1]
    • Creating OER using a wiki and sharing it on OER Commons
      • Inquiry into Poetry
      • Storytelling Activity
    • Collaborating using a Ning Site OER Arts Ning
  • ISKME's OER & Arts Education Fellow, Judy Shintani, presents her blog and activities on OER Commons Kitsune

• Hands-on Performing Arts Activity: Season Storytelling

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

• Evaluation and Close

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