Curriki.org: A Place for Teachers to Share Materials

Curriki.org: A Place for Teachers to Share Materials
The site offers free curriculum for kindergarten through grade 12 in areas such as math, science, reading and language. Transcript of radio broadcast:
04 May 2008

This is the VOA Special English Development Report.

Wikis are Web sites designed for cooperative work. Users can easily create or change the content. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, is the best known wiki.

A newer example is Curriki, a curriculum wiki. Curriki.org is a learning community for developing and sharing educational materials for free. It says it has forty thousand members in two hundred countries

The materials are for kindergarten through grade twelve. The subject areas are mathematics, science, technology, reading, language arts and languages.

In addition to English, there are some materials in French, German, Hindi, Portuguese and Spanish.

A curriculum-building tool helps educators create lesson plans on the site. The idea is for members to donate resources that represent best practices.

Curriki's partners include Sesame Workshop, which has created videos and lesson plans to teach children about cultural differences. Another company, Atomic Learning, has provided videos for teaching about technology.

Members who donate materials are listed on the site. Comments and criticisms about materials are also posted.

Anyone can use Curriki.org to teach others or themselves. The materials can be printed or saved to a CD.

Curriki is also working on several international projects. One of them involves teacher training for Indonesia. In South Africa, Curriki has been working on a research project on the process of building free and open curriculum.

In two thousand four, the Sun Microsystems company launched the Global Education and Learning Community. Two years later, Sun established it as an independent nonprofit organization and changed the name to Curriki.

Bobbi Kurshan is the executive director. She says a team of experts rates material on Curriki on a scale of one to three. The volunteers judge if the information is complete, if it is right for the age level and if it is written well.

The name "wiki" comes from a Hawaiian word for "quick." But Bobbi Kurshan says she recognizes that many teachers may not be quick to trust free, open-source materials. She says people should trust the educational community on Curriki to do the right thing. In her words, "We’re changing the way we build curriculum."

And that's the VOA Special English Development Report, written by Jill Moss.


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curriki.org ：一个地方，供教师分享材料
该网站提供免费的课程，幼儿园到12年级的领域，如数学，科学，阅读和语言。全文电台广播：
2008年5月4日

这是美国之音特别英语发展报告。

Wikis的是所设计的网站，协同工作。用户可以轻松地创建或更改的内容。维基百科，自由的百科全书，任何人都可以编辑，是最知名的Wiki上。

一个较新的例子是， curriki ，课程的wiki 。 curriki.org是一个学习型社区的发展和共享的教育材料，免费。它说有4.0万成员，在200个国家

该材料是从幼儿园到12年级。主题领域是数学，科学，技术，阅读，语言艺术和语言。

此外，英语，有一些材料在法语，德语，印地语，葡萄牙语和西班牙语。

课程建设的工具，帮助教育工作者创造的教训，计划在该网站上。其构想是为成员捐赠的资源，所代表的最佳做法。

curriki的合作伙伴包括芝麻街工作室，创造了视频和教案，以教导儿童有关的文化差异。另一家公司，原子学习，提供了视频教学技术。

大家谁捐的材料列于网站上。的意见和批评，有关材料也张贴。

任何人都可以使用curriki.org教导他人或自己。该材料可以打印或保存到CD上。

curriki ，也是工作的几个国际项目。其中一人涉及师资培训，为印度尼西亚。在南非， curriki一直致力于研究项目建设过程中自由和开放的课程。

在2000四， Sun Microsystems公司的公司发起了全球教育和学习型社区。两年后，孙成立，它作为一个独立的非营利组织，并改变了名称，以curriki 。

bobbi kurshan是执行董事。她说，一个专家小组利率材料对curriki对规模2时59分。义工法官如果信息是否完整，如果它是正确的年龄层次，如果是书面。

命名为“维客”来自夏威夷语“快速” 。但bobbi kurshan说，她认识到，许多教师可能无法快速信托免费，自由，开放原始码的材料。她说，人民应该相信社会上对教育curriki做正确的事。在她的话， “我们正在改变了我们的建设课程” 。

这是该美国之音特别英语的发展报告，写的小杰苔。