WORLD COMMUNITY LINKS
E-Vermont Community Broadband Project - Dover Free Library
Sat, October 22, 2011 Ð 12:00 pm Ð 1:30 pm
An Intern, sponsored by E-Vermont, will assist patrons with internet and compuer situations
EVERY SUBSEQUENT SATURDAY 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Karen Clark Ð clarkk@ccv.edu
Learning to
Go
Would you like to listen to a
modern American poetry lecture from Yale or a watch physics class from MIT? You
can find lots of educational materials from universities and other institutions
free, from your home computer! This workshop explores some of the best websites
for finding educational videos, podcasts and more!
FILMS & VIDEO
Hulu is a website offering ad-supported streaming video of
TV shows and movies from NBC, Fox, ABC, and many other networks and studios....
MORE EDUCATIONAL REPOSITORIES & VIDEOS
VideoLectures.NET
VideoLectures.NET is a free and open access educational
video lectures repository. The lectures are given by distinguished scholars and
scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer
schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science.
The portal is aimed at promoting science, exchanging ideas and fostering
knowledge sharing by providing high quality didactic contents not only to the
scientific community but also to the general public. All lectures, accompanying
documents, information and links are systematically selected and classified
through the editorial process taking into account also users' comments.
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually
all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. MIT OpenCourseWare is a
free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the
undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.
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OCW is not an MIT education.
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OCW does not grant degrees or certificates.
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OCW does not provide access to MIT faculty.
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Materials may not reflect entire content of the course
Open Yale
Courses provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College
courses to the public free of charge via the internet.
The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including
humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.
(Annenberg Learner uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools.)
In our digital age, weÕre drowning in information. The web
offers us infinite data pointsÑnews stories, tweets, wikis, status updates,
etcÑbut very little to connect the dots or illuminate the larger patterns
linking them together. Here at Big Think, we believe that success in the future
is about knowing the ideas that allow you to manage and master this universe of
information. Therefore, we aim to help you move above and beyond random
information, toward real knowledge, offering big ideas from fields outside your
own that you can apply toward the questions and challenges in your own life.
Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world
Hulu - Documentaries Home
Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing
instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused,
safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide
anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As
well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view
in order to learn a concept or skill.
Right
now (Oct. 2011) this site is not available. Here is another site they recommend
The George Lucas Educational Foundation is dedicated to
improving the K-12 learning process by documenting, disseminating, and
advocating for innovative, replicable, and evidence-based strategies that
prepare students to thrive in their future education, careers, and adult lives.
Great news video for Edutopia
http://cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/living/2011/05/13/perry.edutopia.cnn.html
PODCASTS
A
podcast
(or non-streamed webcast) is a series of digital media files (either audio or
video) that are released episodically and often downloaded through web
syndication. The word replaced webcast in common use with the success of the
iPod and its role in the rising popularity and innovation of web feeds.
Some of my
resources Ð
MERLOT -
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
This is a free
and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff
and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning
materials and pedagogy.
Khan Academy
Their mission is
to provide a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.
CNET.com
CNET is the
premier destination for tech product reviews, news, price comparisons, free
software downloads, daily videos, and podcasts
CNET Ð downloads
http://download.cnet.com/windows
Shareware and
Freeware
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