The Salish Sea Curriculum Repository is a collaboration among educators at Whatcom Community College, Western Washington University, and other bioregional institutions to make available materials for use in developing and teaching lessons and courses about the Salish Sea. The repository includes original OER as well as an index of curated resources. Built in WCC’s Omeka S installation, the repository uses Dublin Core metadata standards, linked data, and submitter-generated metadata to support discoverability of learning objects. Through a short-term work opportunity lasting 35-40 hours total, three students have contributed to improving resource discovery within the repository. Hear from all three students about the work of and lessons from learning to write concise, keyword-rich, plain-language resource summaries and cleaning up item metadata to facilitate curriculum-sharing among an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional faculty group engaged in place- and land-based teaching.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Write a strong resource description for an interdisciplinary user group following a student-created human algorithm
- Structure transformative work/learning opportunities for students
- Collaborate with students and librarians on using Omeka S as an open source tool for resource discovery
- Understand the value of the Salish Sea Curriculum Repository and land- and place-based learning more generally
