1. Curriculum 2.0: How to Find Awesome Open Source Curricula Online Presented by: Kim Jones, Joshua Marks and Christine Loew Curriki ISTE 2010 | Denver, CO

2. Who We Are A not-for-profit organization, Curriki drives a broad agenda towards global educational excellence. Curriki.org brings the best of digital life to education via open source, affordable and peer-reviewed content and collaboration tools that are used by teachers, students, parents and developers around the world. www.curriki.org

3. Our Impact 35,000+ free resources 1.6 million+ unique visitors / year (from every country) 120,000+ contributing members 16 million+ students reached/year 500+ social networks & groups www.curriki.org

4. Today’s Presentation www.curriki.org Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OERs) What are they? Why use them? Where to find them? Introduction to using Curriki to: Find OERs Create OERs Share OERs Collaborate – Hands on activity

5. Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) - What are they? www.curriki.org Open Educational Resources are: Digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research” (OECD, 2007). Educational materials and resources offered under some licenses to freely re-mix, adapt, improve and redistribute. All about sharing, so that teachers and learners can share what they know Not a product, but a community process.

6. Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) – Why use them? www.curriki.org OER provides solutions for schools and districts, including: Content that is affordable, open, customizable, interactive and engaging Collaborative environment for teachers and learners Un-tethered learning that transcends the classroom OER brings innovations in technology to education Digitization.......................................Online Searchable Resources Networking......................................Communities of Practice Crowd-Source model......................Collaboration Worldwide Free and Open …….......................Creative Commons Licenses App Store........................................Shared Repository of Content User ratings....................................Community Assessment/Peer Review Free distribution..............................Open Access Free Hosted Services

7. Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) – Where to find them? www.curriki.org CK-12 http://www.ck12.org The Flexbook model Connexions http://www.cnx.org Content commons or small modules Merlot http://merlot.org For faculty & students of higher education OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu MIT course materials OERCommons http://www.oercommons.org Network for OER content resources OpenLearn http://openlearn.open.ac.uk LearningSpace (content) & LabSpace (collaboration)

8. www.curriki.org An open resource repository A Personal content management tools set A Curriculum development and publishing platform A Group collaboration tool A local and global community process A movement to empower educators A way to reduce costs for learning resources What is Curriki.org?

9. FIND OERs www.curriki.org Browse by Subject Advanced Search Filters Browse by State Standard

10. CREATE OERs www.curriki.org Create collections and add resources of any media type Wiki or HTML pages Image files Audio Files (Pod casts) Video Files (We convert and stream) Interactive games (SWF files) Archive files and “Learning Objects” SCORM and Content packages Web links resources Files and documents of any type Or use one of our lesson plan and activity templates

11. CREATE OERs www.curriki.org Forms and Templates

12. www.curriki.org Copyright & Licensing Creative Commons Licenses Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa) Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc) Attribution No Derivatives (by-nd) Attribution Share Alike (by-sa) Attribution (by )

13. COLLABORATE with OERs www.curriki.org

14. OERi in the Classroom Professional Development

15. www.curriki.org Activity: “Build-up” the Inbox collection and add your contribution.

16. Join us on the Web www.curriki.org

17. Any Questions? Thank You! Kim Jones Executive Director kjones@curriki.org Joshua Marks Chief Technology Officer jmarks@curriki.org Christine Loew Program Manager cloew@curriki.org This presentation and other resources can be accessed on the ISTE 2010 Curriki Group: http://ISTE2010.groups.curriki.org Curriculum 2.0 session evaluation available at: http://www.surveymk.com/s/byol-opensource_eval