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

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

About Anna
http://www.curriki.org
Twitter: @Curriki http://www.boneducation.com
Twitter: @Bon_Education
http://www.literacyispriceless.com

What are Open Education
Resources?

OERsthat anyone can…
free education materials
are
Remix
Improve
Redistribute

OERs include…
Learning objects
Images, audios & videos
Lessons, units & full courses
Journal articles & textbooks
Learning & content management software
Tools for publishing digital resources

OER and FOSS
Think about open education resources like you think
about free and open source software. Users:
adapting content sharing content

Major OER Projects

Literacy OER tour…

Benefits & Challenges

The World Needs You!
Share your teaching genius with
others around the globe!
Think OERs!

Thank you!
Anna Batchelder
Global Consultant, Curriki
Founder, Bon Education
Dubai, UAE
abatchelder@curriki.org
anna@boneducation.com

Appendix

What about copyrights?
A brief video…

www.FreeReading.net

www.Curriki.org