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  • 2015
    6/19

    Call For Educator Participants!

    ​During April 2015, Digital Public Library of America held the DPLAFest in Indianapolis.  At this event, DPLA announced their Learning Registry Collaboration.  The collaboration is to share primary sources for learning through the Learning Registry.  This means that as DPLA shares resources through their numerous members and digital collections, the ISLE Open Educational Resources system will automatically make them available to educators and learners. Currently through ISLE OER, teachers can find the DPLA Exhibitions.

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    The Digital Public Library of America is looking for excellent educators for its new Education Advisory Committee. They recently announced a new grant from the Whiting Foundation that funds the creation of new primary source-based education resources for student use with teacher guidance.

    They’re recruiting a small group of enthusiastic humanities educators in grades 6-14 to collaborate on this project. Members of this group will:
    • build and review primary source sets (curated collections of primary sources about people, places, events, or ideas) and related teacher guides
    • give feedback on the tools students and teachers will use to generate their own sets on DPLA’s website
    • help DPLA develop and revise its strategy for education resource development and promotion in 2015-2016​​
    If selected, participants are committing to:
    • attend a 2-day in-person meeting on July 29-July, 30 2015 (arriving the night of July 28) in Boston, Massachusetts
    • attend three virtual meetings (September 2015, November 2015, and January 2016)
    • attend a 2-day in-person meeting in March 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts (dates to be selected in consultation with participants)
    Participants will receive a $1,500 stipend for participation as well as full reimbursement for travel costs.

    To be considered for participation, please apply by July 1, 2015. Visit the DPLA website to apply.

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