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Issue #2 - The Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC)

Newsletters - GLRC Newsletters

Issue: # 2 January 17, 2011
The Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC)

Welcome to the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) newsletter. You can now follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, and more. Just click the social buttons of choice at the top of this newsletter. You can also click the Facebook Like button at the top of the newsletter! The GLRC is a JES & Co. program built on the Achievement Standards Network (ASN), The Gateway to 21st Century Skills (the Gateway), and the Open Metadata Registry(OMR). GLRC newsletters will keep you updated on the GLRC domestic and international activities, promoting worldwide expansion. For more information go to http://bit.ly/hVDXuU.
What People are Saying
"Governments around the world are looking for ways to provide access to digital learning resources and IMS is eager to help make this happen through cooperation with GLRC and the IMS Learning Object Discovery and Exchange (LODE) project."- Dr. Rob Abel, Chief Executive Officer of IMS Global Learning Consortium

"We believe our work with the Global Learning Resource Connection will provide global access to materials that will enrich the learning experience."- John Behrens, Director of Cisco Networking Academy

"Gale is pleased to work with JES & Co. and the GLRC to support the linking and discoverability of our resources in a way that will benefit learning institutions both in the U.S. and internationally. This is an important extension of current efforts to align Gale content to achievement standards in the ASN, which will enable educators to find multimedia, news, statistics, reference, and many other resources to meet their instructional needs, all within the context of Gale's dynamic classroom-focused products."- Frank Menchaca, Executive Vice President, Gale

What's New?

The IMS Global Learning Consortium is a very important worldwide learning resource standards consortium that hosts several working group meetings a year. The next is scheduled for February 14-16 in Utrecht, Netherlands. The public is usually invited to attend the Summit portion. Joining the IMS Global Learning Consortium will give you a chance to be on top of interoperability education standards both nationally and internationally.

You can learn more about IMS Global Learning Consortium at:

http://www.imsglobal.org/

The European Schoolnet is hosting a seminar in Brussels, Belgium on February 17-18, 2011. The seminar is called Educational Publishing Futures - A Strategic Seminar. This seminar will provide a platform where Ministries of Education, publishers and ICT vendors can discuss the future of educational publishing and digital content for schools. Read more at: http://bit.ly/fs3WD4

The European Schoolnet is a unique network of 31 Ministries of Education (MOE) that is at the forefront of global initiatives related to the exchange and interoperability of digital learning resources for schools. With support from its Ministries and the European Commission, European Schoolnet has developed the Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) service for schools and continues to work with both Ministries and commercial educational educational publishers in major content related projects.
New GLRC Sponsors & Partners

The Global Learning Resource Connection is an entity, yet includes activities and outcomes which are led by GLRC partners. JES & Co. distributes press releases about GLRC partner activities on a regular basis.

This month, we welcome Cisco to the GLRC team as a Premier Sponsor.

Recent press releases announcing new GLRC sponsors can be seen by just clicking this link: http://www.jesandco.org/press

Cisco:

Read More- http://bit.ly/gtlP8b

Where can you get educational resources mapped to your state standards?

In the last GLRC newsletter we talked about the importance of being able to discover quality education resources correlated to your state's standards. The Gateway is the oldest and largest digital library for teachers and is sponsored by the National Education Association (NEA) as a benefit to it's 3.2 million members. View the recent press release about The Gateway at : http://bit.ly/dWxefO

Featured on The Gateway each week is a section called Joann's Weekly Picks. Joann is the Gateway's resident librarian and each week she selects and features new educational resources.

Here are some very important recent resources.

For grant writing resources, click here: http://bit.ly/g09ML1

For resources on using technology in the classroom, click here: http://bit.ly/gn7zNB

Next to her column is Peggy's Corner. Peggy, the Gateway's resident teacher and expert, discusses how to integration Joann's picks in the classroom. Both Joann's Picks and Peggy's Corner are updated each week and followed on the Gateway's Facebook page and Twitter for continued discussions with educators.

The Gateway to 21st Century Skills: Making the Most of Online Resources was nominated for an Edublog award in the Best eLearning/Corporate Education Blog Category.

The Gateway to 21st Century Skills was:

- named as one of 10 Great Websites for Teachers in MiddleWeb's 10 Great Websites for Teachers.

-featured on Verizon's Thinkfinity Literacy Network page.

-the top resource featured in a collection of "Learner 2.0 Resources for Teaching in the 21st Century Classroom" on the Professional Growth Institute's page "Resources for the 21st Century Skills Integration." and;

-a featured resource on New York's William Floyd School District's home page.
Achievement Standards Network (ASN)

The Achievement Standards Network (ASN) goes global.

Countries from around the world are starting to adopt linked data principals when it comes to their educational standards.

Australian's national curriculum was recently published in ASN RDF/XML format. Link Affiliates was tasked with reviewing the value of using the ASN framework for publishing the new Australian Curriculum. The report can be found at: http://bit.ly/fDZgRI

You can see the Australian National Curriculum at

the following link:

http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/elements

Wilnert Krann from JISC CETIS in the UK reviewed the ASN for use in e-portfolios. Read his blog at: http://bit.ly/he6gXf

Coming soon - Canada's primary and secondary curriculum standards through free ASN subscription distribution or web services.

WGNH's Teachers Domain has correlated their English Language Arts and Mathematics resources to the Common Core Standards, which are now in the ASN.

ASN data is open source and made publicly available for unrestricted use through a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.To learn more about the ASN, please go to: http://bit.ly/eE8kXm
The JES & Co. team hopes that you had a happy, healthy, and safe holiday season.
Sincerely,

Terry

Terry Smithson

Director of Marketing

JES & Co.
In This Issue
Here's what people are saying about the GLRC!
What's New?
GLRC Sponsors & Partners
Where can you find educational resources?
Achievement Standards Network (ASN) News
What can you do?
Partner Spotlight!
Call to Action

Get involved.

Correlate your resources to curriculum standards.

Publicly register your vocabularies and ontologies for interoperability.

Invest in future GLRC development.

For complete details, please contact Terry Smithson at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Partner Spotlight!

Congratulations to Cengage (Gale) on being named by EContent's Magazine as one of the top 100 companies that matter most.

You can see the article here:http://bit.ly/dOP672
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