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• Make contact with Vincent Kizza who is taking leadership in establishing an national OER portal for Uganda (See: http://www.wikieducator.org/OERUG ) -- Ask Vincent about high priority content areas.

• Reuse ideas and concepts from the the OERNZ project ( http://www.wikieducator.org/New_Zealand_Schools_OER_Portal ) which is starting to think about different types of OER that may be useful in the school sector Types of OER to be developed...

• Take Declan up on his offer for us to remix, collaborate and add value to the amazing set of lesson materials in Biology for Elementary Schools developed by his students http://www.wikieducator.org/Biology_in_elementary_schools

• Here is what we are doing on WikiEducator to facilitate the process of introducing educators to the use of technology one step at a time: http://wikieducator.org/Integrating_Technology_for_Active_Learning

WikiEducators promoting collaboration

• Valerie Taylor - collaboration agitator

• Nellie Deutsch - extends an invitation to all to join BOL, BL and and fully synchronous and asynchronous workshops as developers, students and facilitators

• if your would like to help promote WE collaboration, please join in...

This is a WE Collaborate project. You can help. See project description for more information.

Directories, repositories and lists

Lists of projects and resources of open learning objects - creating and maintaining a list of all the great learning objects is an invaluable resource. Please help keep this list current. Add new resources.

• WikiEducator : Primary - deals with Primary Education. There may be some overlap with Middle School depending on the groupsing by year and age.

• Public Library of Science - open access journals on a broad range of sciences from the nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource

• Science Learning Network

• FreeReading.net - good example of how activities can be defined and organized. Reading programs and activities for K-1. Doesn't support the WE and Wikipedia concepts of collaborative content writing and editing (but provides an excellent model for research-based, quality-ensured content). Nice template outline, rating indication

• Open Dictionary - a collaboratively-created open dictionary written in simple, student-friendly language. Definitions are quality-monitored and in the future, a quality-ensured "frozen" version will be made available

• Open Knowledge Foundation registry of textbooks and related materials which are free for anyone to use, reuse and redistribute.

• Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) - list of discipline-specific open and free textbooks that may be suitable for use in community college courses.

• Wikibooks - the open-content textbooks collection and tools for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.

University, College, Higher Education

• Open Courseware(OCW) Consortium - free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses from more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world

• Connexions - open creation repository hosted by Rice University with contributions that include full courses, textbooks as well as lectures and lessons

• Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER), Community College Open Textbooks - Community Colleges throughout the US and Canada have joined together to promote open textbooks

• Stanford University,Carnegie Mellon, Tufts, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Utah State, University of Notre Dame, Yale - just to name a few...

• Free Lectures & Courses from Great Universities (Audio and Video)

• Learning Federation - digital curriculum content to support teaching and learning. These materials are available free of charge to all Australian and New Zealand schools.

• Public Library of Science - open access journals on a broad range of sciences from the nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource

Repositories and directories for K-12

• Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons includes resources at all grade levels although post-secondary make up a significant portion of the total - Primary (5342), Secondary (8028), Post-secondary (16111) --as of September 2009

• MERLOT - wide range of subjects. formats and grade levels, many include peer reviews

• Learning Federation - available to schools in Australia and New Zealand

• Kathy's list - one of the earliest lists of links to primary learning objects, predating the term by nearly a decade. In the late 1990s, Kathy Schrock maintained "the list" of links to lesson plans and educational materials for K-12. Now part of the Discovery Channel online resources.

• European SchoolNet - work includes building a Learning Resource Exchange (LRE)

• Context eLearning with Broadband Technologies (CELEBRATE) - pedagogy for the design and use of collaborative and interoperable Learning Objects in integrated learning environments

• WatchKnow lists thousands of reviewed short educational videos available on the web. It is a non-profit, online community that encourages everyone to collect, create, and share free, innovative, educational videos.

• Free Reading - reading activities for K-1

Communities of practice

• TappedIn.org - resources, teacher traiing, forums