Session 2 Guide
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, you will
- Understand the purpose of narrative in Open Educational Resources.
- Understand the commonalities between indigenous frameworks and Critical Race Theory.
- Be familiar with double consciousness and its effects on instructor intent and learner impact.
- Formulate new insights into how to apply these narrative approaches and concepts to your project.
- Be familiar with CUNY Pressbooks and Manifold.
Agenda
In this session, we will think about storytelling. How will you shape the stories you will tell both about your project and through your project for specific audiences? How will you provide opportunities for counter-storytelling in your project? We will also provide an overview of the publishing platforms for which we provide support in this program.
Here’s what we’re going to do today to support you in this stage.
- Discuss narrative in OER, storytelling and counter-storytelling, and decolonization and indigenization.
- Define Critical Race Theory and double consciousness.
- Discuss the application of these narrative approaches to your project.
- Provide training on the CUNY Pressbooks and Manifold platforms.
You can download the Session 2 slides [PDF] for an additional overview of the session.
Activities
In-session Discussion
In a breakout room with colleagues, discuss how you will apply the following narrative approaches and concepts to your project:
- Storytelling and counter-storytelling
- Decolonization and indigenization
- Critical Race Theory and double consciousness
Homework Activities
Complete the following activities before the next session.
- Use the storytelling prompts to situate yourself in your project and develop a CRT statement to be incorporated into the introduction to your OER.
- Consider and select the tools you will use to create your OER, and identify what questions you have about the tools you might use. The Tools Check-in survey below will help you in this process.
✅ Checking In
Instructions: To make sure you are set up for our upcoming session next week, please respond to these two surveys.
