 Welcome to our lightning talk session entitled Teacher Educators as OER Storytellers. I'm Nikki Fain, Project Director of the CUNY TED OER Hub. We hope to give you a taste of the why, what and how of our efforts. The CUNY TED OER Hub, while still in its infancy, is more than a collection of digital resources. In videotaped interviews, instructors and librarians tell their stories of successes, failures and what has driven them to create OER. I want to give a shout out to the Rebus community and a Purva Oshok Project Lead. Over the past year, our team has been a member of this community. Without constant encouragement and just-in-time technical assistance, we never would have come this far. Thanks for pushing us beyond where we thought we could go. Also thanks to CUNY's Office of Library Services and Stacey Katz, Lehman's OER Librarian, for their financial, emotional and technical support. Now I turn to Nalisa Siddique, Project Manager, to begin our tour. Thank you, Nikki. Hello, everyone. I'm Nalisa Siddique and I'm the Project Manager for the CUNY Teacher Education OER Hub. Through video anecdotals and resources shared on the Hub, we hope to encourage OER authorship across CUNY institutions and PK through 12 schools, to develop course materials representative of our population of learners, to connect education coursework to clinical practice, and to showcase OER examples that promote diversity, equity and inclusion. The Hub is housed on the CUNY Academic Commons, which is an open digital platform for teaching and learning. The Commons provided our team with easy to use customizable templates, which streamlined our design process. Now let's join my colleague, Anthony Wheeler, as he takes us on a guided tour of the Hub. Hi, everybody. My name is Anthony Wheeler. I'm a PhD student of remote education with the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as the web developer for the teacher at OER Hub. I'll be taking us to the website today, showing you guys some of the content maybe accumulated and where to find it. So upon landing on our website, you'll find a little welcome blurb with a little bit of information about why the project was conceived, as well as some faces, introducing our team and the people who've been supporting the project for the past semester, and a list of our contributors thus far. If you want to learn more about the people, you can go to our Meet the Team tab, which is found under the About the Project, but there's also about OER for those of you who are unfamiliar with OER and need a little bit more exposure to the concepts and what that includes. Thank you to Stacey Katz, our OER library, and for putting that together. From here, we can navigate to our tab OER and teacher at. Underneath here, you'll find interviews with different scholars recounting their experiences developing OER, ranging from assignments to modules, courses, and even OER programs. These interviews, as Ulibah has been conducting, have all yielded rich results, and each scholar has provided a different set of advice for you to learn from. One example being from Dr. Jacqueline Desanser here. The lessons learned that you want to share with other OER design teams. The lessons learned were to take the time to explore and dig. The first time a faculty member came back and said, don't jump at the first beautiful OER. Really take your time to see what are you looking for, and then put it together and see what the combination looks like. Or to offer two options, you know, to chat. As we move forward to the site, you'll find multilingualism slash early childhood. Here you'll find some guidance on creating resources thanks to Zoila Morale. On the faculty scholarship and OER page, you'll find all these publications by community scholars. Linked-outs, you'll have them readily available on our hub. Moving forward, you'll find additional resources on the hub, which include non-educational resources and OER support. Non-education resources include courses that are not focused on teacher education, some more specialized subject matter, and OER support just includes tutorials and things on getting you started with OER. Finally, if you are interested in being a reviewer or contributing to this site, or even just giving feedback as a user, you can contact us using the Google Form embedded on the last page. And I'm going to pass it over to Wendy Morales. Hi. Thank you, Anthony, for that overview. My name is Wendy Morales. I'm a former ethnic studies teacher taught in middle school and high school and now am a doctoral student at CUNY Graduate Center, where I'm really thinking about educating educators. So thinking about all of those pre-service teachers and really thinking about the OER hub and what these resources can enhance and bring to teacher education. And so what you'll notice about our resources is that we were very intentional about the best way to curate all of these different links. We know that there are many, many, many different resources out in the web and that there are many ways that teachers feel supported, but really wanting to ensure that these were easier to navigate and that the user experience was really about the educator. So what you'll notice is that you'll see they are curated in a way that include early childhood and different levels. But you'll also notice that we've been thinking about the best way to help folks who are creating the courses to teach teachers. So you'll also be able to see them as practicum courses, foundations and other categories that are very helpful for this type of work. So super open to feedback. We also have a few different sources for you to contribute to the site. And I will now hand it off to Zulevet. Hello, I am Zulevet Muniz, the media specialist for this project. We wanted to create video content that authentically captured and shared the experiences using OER through a series of interviews with instructors and librarians. We were able to exhibit the successes and struggles of using OER. We thought it was important to share all aspects and experiences. So not only did we interview librarians and instructors, but we also spoke with students who were willing to share their journey and taking OER courses in the videos. You will find how regular courses were transformed into OER courses, the pros and cons of OER and strategies used to better suit the needs of students, just to name a few. Creating these videos has provided us with deeper insights into the world of OER. And we hope the videos teach and help guide other instructors who will undertake this journey. Thank you for taking the time to learn about the CUNY Teacher Education OER Hub. If you would like to join our team, visit the Contact Us page on our site and let us know if you would be interested in being an author to share your story about using our creating OER materials or be a critical friend and provide us with feedback as a reviewer or simply as a user of the site. We would be happy to hear from you. Again, thank you and we look forward to seeing you at OpenEd 2021.