Heather Braum and Gary Price Why Open Education Matters information and video Wikipedia is an Open Education Resource (plus bibliography at the end of the articles. CNX.org Project Gutenberg (for free online books) Kansas portal Curriki Khan Academy (is it truly ‘open” educational or not?) TED Education (turning TED talks into lessons for the classroom) National Archives and Library of Congress teacher pages Valenza wiki Full Courses iTunes University Coursera (MOOC) How can you use OER in your school district? –can be used for pathfinders […]
Tag: Internet Schools Conference
Day Two– Internet @ Schools
This post includes two sessions at Internet @ Schools, Day Two: 21st century learning model, and Ebook Creation for Libraries. 21st- Century Learning-Mission Driven Model at Delmar Burke School Jenny Howland and Susan Faust, Katherine Delmar Burke School, CA 20th century felt finite and knowable but 21st feels infinite and unknowable. How do we prepare our students for this universe? The two librarians immersed themselves in personal professional development for six months–immersing themselves in the changes going on, TED talks, reading, etc. Real personal learning. […]
iPads in Libraries — CIL Presentation
My presentation on iPads in Libraries (including video of various libraries using iPads) can be found here. Austin is a food truck city, and it seemed analogous to me to the idea of libraries becoming mobile. Ipads in School Libraries — Computers in Libraries 2012 More PowerPoint presentations from C Foote