OER Open Education Resources

One of the presentations at Leeward Community Collegeʻs Geek Day yesterday was about Open Education Resources, collections of courses and articles with Creative Commons licenses. https://www.oercommons.org/ Youʻve heard about MITʻs free courses, this expands on the types of content and ways to search. This form of virtual sharing can be a great resource for teachers and students, although since they were user sourced, one has to be discriminating about judging their accuracy. The Hawai‘i DOE has four groups with uploaded resources for Common Core, Math and Science - not necessarily created in Hawai‘i but useful to teachers of these subject areas. https://www.oercommons.org/groups/ Each references uses of the content to help meet standards for different grade levels.

Institutions and individuals can contribute resources housed either on their own server or in the OER repository. The left panel has menus with which to search by Educational Level, Material Type and User (Teacher, Student, Parent). Users can search by area or topic or view curated collections. Here are just a few.

A quick search on "Hawaii" brought 360 references, and "Hawaiian" brought 101. Many were botanical and astronomical submitted by the University of Hawai‘i. Others were included just because Hawai‘i was mentioned in some way. Hawaiian culture or language were not evident. Perhaps this may be a way to share some of our resources and let them know what else we have for them?

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Scratch - OWAU discussion 10/28

Aloha kākou, I while back, I learned about this product from a presentation at the eSchool conference. The speaker was so excited about Scratch and was having so much fun demonstrating it that my mind began racing immediately. "I could use it in `Ike Hawai`i courses and I bet I could use it to develop tons of activities for the A`o Makua `ōlelo Hawai`i courses". Then, reality set in as I returned to work intending to try it out after I finished my "next" task. Well, you know how that goes. 7 months later, I finally took a stab at it out of necessity of course. I really wanted some type of activity to teach my students about different Kapu in old Hawai`i without having them just read a list of them. So, what it Sratch? Simply put, it's a developer's tool (a very inexpereinced developer like myself). It allows you to create activities and games using "coding" that is in a drag and drop format. The codes are pre-written & range from phrases like ...

Geotagging

A "wouldn't it be nice" idea that's been around a while is the ability to tag a map with images that are linked to more information about the site. Kelly C suggested it as a way for students to share knowledge about a cultural/historic site or the geographic area they live in with classmates. (right, no addresses!) There are now cameras and even storage media that embed latitude and longitude into images as they are shot. But you don't need fancy new toys to do this. I tried Flickr's geotagging map and it's fun and supereasy. Want to try it? Log in to Flickr http://www.flickr.com Sign in as " techedine " password " wist101 " yea, corny. Click the " You " tab then the " Your Photostream > Map " or Organize > Your Map links. Click the Satellite link in the upper right. Cool view! (you may need Google Satellite downloaded). Images along the bottom of the screen with colored dots have already been droppe...

Papa Kuʻi ʻai a me Pohaku

As part of our huakaʻi last month to Papahana Kuaola and the opportunity to work in the loʻi, I wanted to continue that thought by sharing my experience of making a papa kuʻi 'ai (poi-pounding board). In 2008 with the encouragement from me and my co-worker, Pili Wong, Earl Kawaʻa offered to teach a papa kuʻi ʻai papa to those of us that were interested in learning what our kūpuna did as a daily way of life. For our kūpuna they had loʻi in their yards and grew their own kalo, the major source of starch in their diet. They steamed it and pounded poi or kept it whole and sliced it and ate it like bread with butter or condensed milk. Kawaʻa was very specific on our kuleana and the commitment he required of us. Our first task was to find an au koʻi (handle) for our koʻi (adze tool). I found myself suddenly looking up at every tree I saw looking for the right branch for my koʻi. My husband found mine at a jobsite from a Haole Koa tree otherwise known as ...

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