An OER commons for New Zealand Schools

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Vision

We aim to foster the collaborative development of a sustainable Open Education Resource (OER) ecosystem for New Zealand teachers to create, share, repurpose and reuse digital content in support of the national curriculum. This is a project developed by teachers for teachers.

The reusable and portable content project is sponsored by the Ministry of Education under the Managed Learning Environment initiative and will focus on three streams:

Capability and community development
Software and tools development to improve the usability of the technology for newcomers to collaborative online authoring and content integration with the technology platforms of the Ministry and approved LMS vendors.
Seeding OER content development for use in New Zealand schools.

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Featured school

Warrington School in Otago achieves a historic accolade! Warrington primary school is the first school in New Zealand to implement a portal page on WikiEducator under Aotearoa's Open Education Resource (OER) commons. The school's Open Education Initiative aims to empower their community of parents, teachers and pupils through open education. The OER Foundation, an independent non-profit based at Otago Polytechnic, has announced a free hosting service for all New Zealand schools to profile their work in OER on WikiEducator and will provide free training for every teacher in New Zealand in learning how to use a wiki under the Learning4Content project - the world's largest attempt to develop wiki skills for education.

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Featured project

New Zealand's Search for Security 1945-1985

This is a collaborative textbook for this Level 1 NCEA history course. We're writing the textbook for this topic as we learn it, and we'd like other schools to become involved too. If you're studying Level 1 history, create an account and add your knowledge to our textbook. This topic takes us from the end of World War II through to the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.

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Featured teacher

This area is under construction and will be used to feature New Zealand teachers demonstrating OER leadership. More content soon.

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Sustainable education

Goals:

Needs:

Materials that meet the requirements of the free cultural works definition namely Creative Commons Attribution, Copyleft license equivalents and the GPL
Ideas that can make our world a better place
Resources that can be:

Used for any purpose that benefits the planet
Self sustaining and adapted to meet varied needs
Shared
Improved and re-released

Enviroschools

He mihi nui, he mihi aroha ki a koutou katoa.

Now is the time to use the Enviroschools action learning cycle to work towards a more sustainable education system by

Envirethical Education

People and the planet
Environmental and ethical

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Activities and events

Join our celebratory "WikiEducator Gives Back" online workshop. It will run from July 21 - August 4, 2010, led by our amazing team of L4C facilitators. Please spread the word and register here.

Second issue of OERNZ News published. Print and share! (Download 1^st issue here).

Inviting all New Zealand teachers to assist with the planning and activities in preparation for the launch of the Kiwi instance of WikiEducator and our reusable and portable content project. Sign up to join our planning team. We need your help!