I am hesitant to bring this up for several reasons but here goes...
“IF” we as a group of Arizona School Districts were to find a location to house home grown (teacher created) interactive white board, other types of lesson and technology rich activities… Do you think your teachers, leaders and districts would be willing to add content to the site?
It is a given we all should be aligning to the AZ and National standards, it would be nice to have repository of lessons and activities in a single location and our teachers could focus more on teaching and using the technology than creating a similar lesson or activity that 25 others have.
I do realize that are a number of issues and my favorite "Yeah but what about ____________ " But those shouldn't stop us if there is a willingness to share.
Okay that should start something. :)
Shawn Wheeler - swheeler@peoriaud.k12.az.us
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Sharing, what an interesting concept. It's like in this century that competition is good, but collaboration may be better - pretty wild statement from an ex-business owner, but hey, the times they are a changin'..
So, here's but a few thoughts. The Arizona IDEAL e-Learning Platform (iTunes U/K12). It's organized by content, then school district, and you can organize further. For example, PVUSD is trying to figure it out and learn how to share. Our focus now is trying to get better quality of our vodcasts, tag them appropriately (standards, purpose) and go from there. iTunes U/K12 accepts multimedia and pdf and is a good start.
Curriki (www.curriki.org) for lesson plans. We could organize it by tagging with AZ/Grade/Standard during the upload. That makes the searching more focused. But, if we all got together and decided how to tag, and then say PVUSD takes K6 math as a focus, Apache Junction takes a focus of K3 science, or go by Strand/Concept. Either way, we all don't have to reinvent the wheel. But organized sharing and collaboration is very powerful if we can pull off a model like this.
We could use Open Clip Art Project (www.clipart.org), or given their content is in the Public Domain and use Creative Commons, we could download and organize how we want, and post it to our servers - remix but give attribution.
Need fonts (http://openfontlibrary.org/). Freely use, we could archive and organize how we want, etc..
Want music - try the Creative Commons project - ccmixter.org - free to use, mix, reuse - various cc licenses, so a short education is in order.
The Open Education Resources (http://about.deviantart.com/policy/copyright/) project comes to mind - sort of like Curriki, but it's been around longer, I believe. Again, to make it Arizona-centric, we have to all get organized and tag and assign/distribute the work appropriately. One of these just got an entire K8 Spanish Curriculum posted by the state education department of South Dakota - that reminds me, I need to go get that.
Or, from a state-wide perspective, just embrace ccLearn (dedicated to fostering Creative Commons in the Education Industry) - learn.creativecommons.org. What a wild idea for the Az CTO/CIO to put it's name on the map for real 21st century collaboration.
All of these could be downloaded, give appropriate attribution, and stored on our own servers for ready access by our teachers to use. So, pulling it off requires some organization and collaboration - no big deal....;-) A group of us is meeting in Vail in January - let's kick it around - a state wide repository (distributed to each of our server) of content/standard driven, digital resources, all done by a grass roots effort - probably the only way it will ever get done....
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