Aligning+Resources+to+the+Maine+Learning+Results

** Essential Question: How can we align free and open internet resources to the Maine Learning Results standards? **
Using the Maine Learning Results and a wiki, we will start a collaboration in matching open resources to standards and performance indicators. This coming school year there will be a [|series of grants awarded] from the [|competitive IID stimulus funds] to work on fleshing out the MLR with helpful resources for educators in Maine. In this workshop we will look at some ways of going about this in anticipation of the statewide project. We will take a look at a wealth of sites that contain open resources, become versatile in the use of a wiki http://mlropenresources.wikispaces.com/, and work as groups and individuals to share the wealth of ideas, lesson plans, sites, and links with other educators in our State and beyond.

Jim Burke

**Warm-Up**

 * 1) [|Potato]
 * 2) Icebreaker Resources
 * 3) Process Skills

**Goals**

 * 1) To understand and use wikis.
 * 2) To learn how and where to find resources.
 * 3) To use wikis to organize and encourage collaboration in sharing open resources.

**Wikis**
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 * 1) About Wikis
 * [|WetPaint]
 * [|Wikidot]
 * [|PBWiki]
 * [|Google Sites]
 * 1) Learning in Maine Resources Wiki
 * 2) MLR Open Resources Wiki
 * 3) [|Wikis in Plain English]
 * 4) [|Wikipedia]
 * 5) [|Wikipedia on Wikis]
 * 6) [|More Info about wikis]
 * 7) Jim Moulton's wiki at Wikispaces on project-based learning.
 * 8) [|Sign up for Wikispaces]
 * 9) [|Sign up for Educator Wikispace (no ads)]

Learning in Maine Resources Wiki MLR Open Resources Wiki Sign up for Wikispaces

**Free & Open Resources**
[|OER Introduction] [|Wikipedia Definition] “. . . digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research”


 * 1) [|K12 Station]
 * 2) [|eMINTS eTHEMES]
 * 3) [|OER Commons]
 * 4) [|Curriki]
 * 5) [|WikiEducator]
 * 6) [|Teachers' Domain]
 * 7) [|SEED Archive]
 * 8) [|Thinkfinity]
 * 9) [|Public Domain Images]
 * 10) [|OnCoRe Blueprint Project]
 * 11) [|NEA GEM Gateway]
 * 12) [|Free Reading]
 * 13) [|Open Educational Resources]
 * 14) OER Dynamic Search Engine
 * 15) OER Benefits
 * 16) [|OER Commons]
 * 17) [|Learn NC]
 * 18) [|Connexions: OER Introduction]
 * 19) [|Folksemantic]
 * 20) [|OER Recommender]
 * 21) [|OER Projects]
 * 22) [|OER Handbook]
 * 23) [|UNESCO OER Toolkit]
 * 24) [|Richard Muller Video: Open Educational Resources]

**The Maine Learning Results**

 * 1) [|Link to State of Maine Site: Parameters for Essential Instruction>]
 * 2) [|DOE Content Specific]

**Connecting Resources to MLR**

 * 1) Focus on a performance indicator or topic
 * 2) Model, Practice, and Hints
 * 3) Adding Additional Pages

Debrief and Looking to the Future

 * 1) Discussion Comment
 * 2) [|MLTI Evaluation]