Literacy is Priceless: Free Technology Tools for Literacy Teachers

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Literacy is Priceless: Free Technology Tools for Literacy Instruction Anna Batchelder Curriki, Global Consultant Founder, Bon Education NECC Unplugged 2009

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This presentation will be given at NECC Unplugged July 2009 by A. Batchelder. Literacy is Priceless: A Presentation for Reading and ELA Teachers. During this session, audience members will learn about a variety of open and free education resources for the K-12 literacy classroom.

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Literacy is Priceless:

Free Technology Tools for Literacy Instruction

Anna BatchelderCurriki, Global ConsultantFounder, Bon EducationNECC Unplugged 2009

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After 30 minutes you will be able to…

• Define open education resources

• Identify numerous open education resources for literacy instruction

• Find early literacy resources using FreeReading

• Find and Create K-12 literacy resources using Curriki

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About Anna

http://www.literacyispriceless.com

http://www.curriki.org

Twitter: @Curriki http://www.boneducation.com

Twitter: @Bon_Education

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What are Open Education Resources?

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OERs are

free education materials that anyone can…

Remix

Improve

Redistribute

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OERs include…

Learning objects

Images, audios & videos

Lessons, units & full courses

Journal articles & textbooks

Learning & content management software

Tools for publishing digital resources

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OER and FOSSThink about open education resources like you think about free and open source

software. Users:

adapting content sharing content

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Major OER Projects

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Literacy OER tour…

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Benefits & Challenges

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The World Needs You!

Share your teaching genius with others around the globe!

Think OERs!

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Thank you!Anna Batchelder

Global Consultant, CurrikiFounder, Bon Education

Dubai, [email protected]

[email protected]

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Appendix

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A brief video…

What about copyrights?

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www.FreeReading.net

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www.Curriki.org

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