Curriki's Blog
Curriki's blog has a new home! Please visit us at http://blog.curriki.org. From here, you can easily leave a comment or subscribe to our RSS feed. You can still read our early posts here.Back to School: How can Curriki help?
As you prepare for the new school year, here are a few ways Curriki can help…
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To be or not to be… an Edupunk
In a nutshell, edupunks are people who approach education and the creation of educational tools with a spunky do-it-yourself attitude.
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Online Education Communities Can Change Education
Educators today are engaged in many communities - Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, as well as communities unique to education. Over the past year, I have come to realize the power of the community to change teaching and learning. As the Executive Director of Curriki, I learned early on that "if you build it, they won't come"…
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A Digital Curriculum Future? (More on California)
On August 11, California officially launched its Free Digital Textbook initiative. The half day event held at the Orange County Office of Education featured two panels of stakeholders, of which I was fortunate enough to be a part… In his opening remarks, CA State Secretary of Education Glen Thomas spoke on behalf of Governor Schwarzenegger…
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PRESS RELEASE: Curriki Calls on California Teachers to Open, Share and Collaborate to Enhance Education
On the heels of the Governor's Free Text Book Initiative, Curriki offers teachers unprecedented opportunity to help shape education and drive out costs...
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New and Noteable: Interactive Math Lessons to Remember (Thanks Winpossible!)
Calling all elementary school math teachers! If you plan to teach number sense, measurement, patterns, functions or algebra this year read on…
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New and Noteable: Oceans Alive! and other Elementary Ocean Activities
Teaching young students about the ocean is an exciting way to start your year since many children have spent time at these large bodies of water during their summer break. If they haven’t, learning about the ocean at a young age will encourage them to be better stewards of our earth. Curriki Summer of Content award winner Melissa Webber has put together a fantastic unit titled Oceans Alive! which is geared for new teachers… Read on to see additional Ocean related resources…
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The Search: Finding the Resources You Need in a Snap!
When it comes time to find the lessons or learning objects you need for tomorrow’s class, how do you go about finding what you need without losing too many z’s in the process?
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The More Things Change...
You can help us help you by letting us know about the tools and support that you need most. Add comments to this posting and let us know about the features and training materials that will help you bring more content to Curriki and use what we already have more effectively. We are now thinking about "Curriki 2.0" and where to focus on in our next evolution. We are excited to enable you all to become contributing members to our common library, because… we are all in this together.
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Your vote can help fund the development of free and open curricula! Please vote here.
As his recent blog post elaborates, former Google Executive Paul Buchheit is preparing to donate funds to a cause he and you thinks is important. He writes, “I’m going to donate a bunch of money, but I want random people on the Internet to decide where it goes.”...Curriki has suggested to Paul that he fund the development of a complete set of high-quality K-12 open source content...To vote go to: http://tinyurl.com/kqzg4p
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