Resource #11: Curriki- open source curriculum
Site Name: Curriki
URL: http://www.curriki.org/
Owner: Curriki, non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation
Type of Resource: Open source, K-12 Open Curricula Community
Description: This site is a place where one can find curriculum, lesson plans, games, exercices, videos, podcasts for many subjects and levels. It is a place to share in the creation of an open source curriculum--free for all to use and modify. Instead of executable applications, contributors to Curriki create and share learning resources and full courses.Curriki originated from the idea that technology can play a crucial role in breaking down the barriers of the Education Divide – the gap between those who have access to high-quality education and those who do not. Curriki helps bridge this divide by providing free and open resources to teachers who need them most. As a global community, Curriki encourages collaboration of diverse experiences from around the world to develop “best of breed” learning resources (peer-reviewed and classroom tested) and to create a culture of continuous improvement. Curriki attracts more than 2 million unique visitors per year.Curriki is the result of work done for GELC - the Global Education and Learning Community - an online project started by Sun Microsystems to develop works for education in a collaborative effort.
Uses: Curriki is a K-12 global community for teachers, students and parents to create, share, and find open learning resources. The audience using this site runs the full spectrum of the educational community from teachers to administrators and curriculum developers, to students, parents, and subject-matter experts. Anyone interested in the creation or use of quality learning resources.
I was checking the amount of curriculum and other teaching resources they had for German and found only 4 entries. I think a class assignment for students could be to develop, as we go through the chapters in the book we use, a curriculum with grammar, vocabulary and exercises for the materials they are learning.
Usefulness: At this point, I do not forsee using the sources already on the site for German, but think this site could be used as a repository for my student's development of a German curriculum, and could also be used for me to post unique projects I develop.
Quality: The quality of this website is good, the quality of the entries depends on the authors.
Authorship: open source. Educators, students and publishing companies.
Point of View or Bias: none, but authors may have points of view.
Referral to Other Sources:
Verifiability: They are featured in Timemagazine last December, in e-school news, with the UN's executive secretary at a Java One keynote, and in newspapers from China to India to the NY Times and the SF Chronicle.
Currency: Daily blog- 2011.
Accessibility: WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/) reports 12 accessibility errors.
URL: http://www.curriki.org/
Owner: Curriki, non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation
Type of Resource: Open source, K-12 Open Curricula Community
Description: This site is a place where one can find curriculum, lesson plans, games, exercices, videos, podcasts for many subjects and levels. It is a place to share in the creation of an open source curriculum--free for all to use and modify. Instead of executable applications, contributors to Curriki create and share learning resources and full courses.Curriki originated from the idea that technology can play a crucial role in breaking down the barriers of the Education Divide – the gap between those who have access to high-quality education and those who do not. Curriki helps bridge this divide by providing free and open resources to teachers who need them most. As a global community, Curriki encourages collaboration of diverse experiences from around the world to develop “best of breed” learning resources (peer-reviewed and classroom tested) and to create a culture of continuous improvement. Curriki attracts more than 2 million unique visitors per year.Curriki is the result of work done for GELC - the Global Education and Learning Community - an online project started by Sun Microsystems to develop works for education in a collaborative effort.
Uses: Curriki is a K-12 global community for teachers, students and parents to create, share, and find open learning resources. The audience using this site runs the full spectrum of the educational community from teachers to administrators and curriculum developers, to students, parents, and subject-matter experts. Anyone interested in the creation or use of quality learning resources.
I was checking the amount of curriculum and other teaching resources they had for German and found only 4 entries. I think a class assignment for students could be to develop, as we go through the chapters in the book we use, a curriculum with grammar, vocabulary and exercises for the materials they are learning.
Usefulness: At this point, I do not forsee using the sources already on the site for German, but think this site could be used as a repository for my student's development of a German curriculum, and could also be used for me to post unique projects I develop.
Quality: The quality of this website is good, the quality of the entries depends on the authors.
Authorship: open source. Educators, students and publishing companies.
Point of View or Bias: none, but authors may have points of view.
Referral to Other Sources:
Verifiability: They are featured in Timemagazine last December, in e-school news, with the UN's executive secretary at a Java One keynote, and in newspapers from China to India to the NY Times and the SF Chronicle.
Currency: Daily blog- 2011.
Accessibility: WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/) reports 12 accessibility errors.