Teaching Artist Institute

From OER Commons Wiki

This interactive, hands-on workshop will engage participants in finding, using, and modifying high-quality, free, and freely available online resources. Participants will reflect on their own processes and experience how Open Educational Resources (OER) can impact their teaching, using OER Commons (www.oercommons.org) and web-based collaboration tools, such as wikis and nings. Web resources from such services as the National Endowment for the Humanities, Library of Congress, Lincoln Center Institute, Kennedy Center’s ArtsEdge, and other arts-rich, education based sites.

Location: Cal Shakes' Rehearsal Hall 701 Heinz in Berkeley (off Seventh and San Pablo)

Participants: 15 Teaching Artists

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

Schedule:

• Introductions
• Warm Up Activity introduce participants to the topics of the day and have them reflect on their own Teaching Processes via Improv Activities and Line Prompt Activity
• OER Commons overview an interactive powerpoint presentation and discussion covering:
  • What teachers are doing with OER
  • How can it impact teaching
    • Highlighted Resources:
      • Inquiry Into Poetry Cesar Barragan, High School Spanish Teacher, Oakland
      • Kitsune: The Fox Woman's Mirror ISKME Teaching Artist Fellow Judy Shintani's Blog and lessons Eco-Mandalas and Creating Stories / Arts Academy Storytelling Activity
      • Self Portraits in Art and Writing and Art and Ecology National Gallery of Art
      • Dorothea Lange's Photographs of the Dust Bowl Migration Calisphere - California Digital Library
      • Work In Progress: Andy Goldsworthy, Eco-Art and Art in Public Places: Jo Kreiter and Flyaway Productions, Dance KQED SPARKed
      • 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
      • Hip Hop Course Fall 2007 MIT OpenCourseWare
      • Expressive Paper Mache Masks Learn NC Lesson Plan, submitted by teachers in North Carolina
      • Digital Storytelling Connexions
    • OER Arts Ning a social networking site where teachers, teaching artists, artists, and arts community leaders collaborate around the concepts of open and arts education
• Collaborative Brainstorming and Documentation participants working in pairs will have time to explore OER Commons and search for an activity they can use in their teaching and document how they will use it by adding metadata (ratings, reviews, and tags)
• Group Storytelling OER Activity participants put on their student “hats” and participate in a Storytelling Activity that incorporates visual and performing arts, and then put on their teaching artist “hats” to discuss how they might use an activity like this in their teaching.
• Contributing to the OER Community Activity participants will be guided through the process of contributing content to OER Commons and add their own online learning resource that they would like to share with the community
  • Season Storytelling Activity
• Reflections and Group Discussion about Challenges and Social Impacts related to Open Content and Arts Teaching and Learning
• Wrap Up

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