Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. The Feminist Collection includes over 75 magazines, newsletters, and newspapers created by activists and collectives that helped propel the second wave of feminism from the late sixties and early seventies through the end of the 20th century. Groups represented by these publications include the Redstockings, New York Radical Women, Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, the Third World Women’s Alliance, and many others. https://www.jstor.org/site/reveal-digital/independent-voices/feminist/
The University of Puget Sound’s AACU Institute on Open Educational Resources team invites members of the Puget Sound Community to a presentation and conversation about open pedagogy, and its usefulness as an approach to facilitate transformational learning.
Open education, open educational resources (OER), and open pedagogy are about more than cost savings for students. They allow for student-centered pedagogical approaches that can begin to address issues of equity, student engagement and empowerment, and accessibility to high-impact practices.
Our speaker, Robin DeRosa is a national leader in open education and will share with us some of the pedagogical possibilities of OER. DeRosa is the Director of the Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative at Plymouth State University where her work centers on pedagogical practice in innovative teaching and learning, as well as community-driven approaches to faculty development. As DeRosa states, “Open pedagogy invites us to focus on how we can increase access to higher education and how we can increase access to knowledge, both its reception and its creation.”
Thanks to Collins Memorial Library, the Faculty Development Center, and Institutional Equity & Diversity, and the Library, Media, and Information Systems Committee for their support.
Puget Sound Institute of Open Educational Resources Team
Jane Carlin, Library Margot Casson, Educational Technology Kevin Kirner, Educational Technology Heidi Morton, School of Education Melvin Rouse, Psychology Department Benjamin Tucker, Library
College Women is a searchable portal of diaries, letters, scrapbooks and photographs from the archives of a select group of the earliest women’s colleges in the United States, known as the Seven Sisters. Current contributors include the libraries and archives of the colleges Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Wellesley, Vassar, and Radcliffe. The site aggregates content from partner sites and illuminates connections between the experiences of women students, with the goal of supporting new studies in topics such as political reform and women’s rights, sexuality and body image, religion, race and class, as well as major domestic and international events. https://collegewomen.org/
Explore the history of the Women’s Studies Program (now Gender & Queer Studies) through university records! This digital teaching collection uses yearbooks, course bulletins, issues of The Trail, administrative documents, and more, ranging in date between 1969-1990, to explore the early years of the Women’s Studies program at the University of Puget Sound. In these documents, you’ll encounter a variety of perspectives from students, faculty, staff, and administrators at key moments when Women’s Studies was establishing its legitimacy as an academic discipline and as an area of social and political struggle. https://research.pugetsound.edu/DTC-WomensStudies
The Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection is a collaborative project from the Digital Public Library of America to provide digital access to materials documenting the roles and experiences of Black Women in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and, more broadly, women’s rights, voting rights, and civic activism between the 1850s and 1960. The materials in this collection include photographs, correspondence, speeches, event programs, publications, oral histories, and other artifacts. https://blackwomenssuffrage.dp.la/
Explore nearly 2000 digitized items, including newspapers, books, pamphlets, memorials, scrapbooks, and proceedings from the meetings of various women’s organizations in this collection from the Library of Congress that documents the suffrage campaign. https://www.loc.gov/collections/national-american-woman-suffrage-association
March is Women’s History Month! Celebrate and explore the vital role of women in American history through resources from the Library of Congress, the National Archives, NEH, Smithsonian Institution, and more. https://womenshistorymonth.gov/
OER are “teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.” (From The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation)
OER materials are released under an open license granting permission for everyone to do the 5 R’s of Open Education.
source: https://libguides.lib.msu.edu/oer
How can faculty use OERs?
Draw upon LIBRARY RESOURCES such as books, articles, and databases and replace textbook readings with freely available CUNY resources.
Mix and Match OERs and other open materials. Develop courses with chapters from OER textbooks, journal and periodical articles, videos, and PowerPoints.
Use/repurpose a prepackaged course from an OER platform such as Lumen. Platforms can provide all the necessary low/no cost course materials.
Expand upon your class/teaching notes. Leave the publisher materials behind and share your own work, information, and knowledge sources with students.
From 1619 to beyond, Black craftspeople, both free and enslaved, worked to produce the valued architecture, handcrafts, and decorative arts of the American South. The Black Craftspeople Digital Archive seeks to enhance what we know about Black craftspeople by telling both a spatial story and a historically informed story that highlights the lives of Black craftspeople and the objects they produced. The first and second phases of this project focus on Black craftspeople living and laboring in the eighteenth-century South Carolina Lowcountry and mid-nineteenth century Tennessee.
Currently, you can explore hundreds of collected records documenting the lives and experiences of Black craftspeople involved in 45 trades in South Carolina and Tennessee.
The Hiphop Archive and Research Institute at Harvard University curates all forms of Hiphop material culture including recordings, videos, websites, films, original papers, productions, conferences, interviews, publications, research, etc. While the Archive is a record of all specific-to-Hiphop activity, it also incorporates all of the activities that have developed within and in response to Hiphop, including academic courses, arts and community organizations, underground performances and venues, spoken word, political organizations, religious programs and much more.
