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Connected Educator Month:
Sharing Learning Resources

Presented to: Educators With Something to Say!


Marie Bienkowski, Jim Klo
August 14, 2012


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Communities of Practice: Specialized Knowledge

 Learning now can take place online, with engaging and
  interactive resources
 Educators can use primary source materials from different
  online providers
 …But the resource location problem remains unsolved
 Online communities of practice are good sources of expertise
  for evaluating the quality and applicability of learning
  resources




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Subtitle (if needed)                                         Primary Source Materials


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 Text on the same
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  should be minimized   Engaging
  to avoid confusion    &
                        Timely
                        Lessons




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The Learning Registry Solves the Resource Location
Problem
                                                        • Who built it?
• Library Model: Catalog                                    – U.S. Department of Education
  metadata                                                  – Department of Defense
 – But no one updates it                                      Advanced Distributed
                                                              Learning Lab
• Learning Registry Model:
  Collect social data about
  the usage of learning
  resources                                      • What Kind of Data?
• Share this data in a                               – Standard metadata, any format
  common pool for                                    – Tagged, Commented, Aligned
  aggregation, amplification,                          to Standards, Rated, Clicked,
                                                       Viewed, Shared, Embedded,
  and analysis
                                                       Modified, and more

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How
Does
It
Work?
What Can
It Do for
Searches?
What Can It Do For Communities of Practice?
Communities of Practice: Make Your Voice
Heard
 Community members can use the Learning Registry Collector
  to quickly add information about relevant learning resources
 The Learning Registry has resources from digital libraries and
  repositories
 Connected Educator month is our opportunity to get “big data”
  to analyze, aggregate, amplify
 Easy-to-use browser plugin
 Resource ratings based on the Achieve OER Quality Rubrics
 • http://www.achieve.org/oer-rubrics
 Common Core and State Alignment Data



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Getting Started Adding Data to the Learning
Registry
 Requirements: Chrome Browser
  • http://www.google.com/chrome
 Download and install Chrome plugIn
  • http://bit.ly/lrcollector
 Make a Learning Registry Identity
 Navigate to web page of your favorite resource
 Align it, rate it, publish it to the Learning Registry
 Rinse and Repeat!




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The Learning Registry Collector
Use Your Twitter Account For your Learning
 Registry Identity*




*Twitter Login Optional
Personalize
your identity
with some
background
information
Steps: (1) Match; (2) Rate; (3) Tag & Comment,
then (4) Publish
Match with Common Core or State Standards
Rate with Achieve OER Quality Rubrics
Tag and Comment
Publish
Questions?




        Email jim.klo@learningregistry.org




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