Best of Free for Education
General Repositories
The Internet Archive
Free Movies, Books, & Wayback Machine: A non=profit organization building a digital library of internet site and cultural artefacts in digital form providing acces to researcehrs, historians, scholars and the general public. http://www.archive.org
Go 2 Web 2.0
Complete Web 2.0 Directory
Instructables
Online repository of DIY. From their site "Instructables is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others. The seeds of Instructables germinated at the MIT Media labs as the future founders of Squid Labs built places to share their projects and help others."
Cost of Free Open Educational Resources
Resources, portals
Video Repositories
TED: Ideas worth spreading
"Riveting talks by remarkable people free to the world
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TeacherTube
Provides an online community for sharing instructional videos. They 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.
Teacher Training Video.com:
How to do EVERYTHING. Winner of the 2008 The AWARDS Outstanding ICT Initiative winner
WatchKnow.org
A non-profit website which features over 15,000 educational videos for children arranged into a directory of over 3,000 categories.
EduTube
Educational video search platform whose aim is to organize the best free online educational videos for viewing or download. Because sites such as YouTube are blocked in some institutions, educators can check this site for some of the same material.Videos are sorted by measure of quality, popularity and educational value. Also includes audio podcasts.
YouTubeEd
YouTube Educational videos. Includes categories for business, education, engineering, fine arts & design, health & medicine, history, humanities, journalism & media, law, literature, mathematics, science, and social science.
Academic Earth
A user friendly educational repository of full video courses, lectures from world scholars. Searchable by subject, university or lecturer.
Blogs
Free Technology For Teachers
A blog with guides, tutorials and postings on the best of free technology for teachers
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Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4PL), Learning Tools Directory
100 Best Blogs for Classroom Teachers
from OnlineDegrees.net http://www.onlinedegrees.net/blog/2010/100-best-blogs-for-the-classroom-teacher/
100 Best Blogs for Tech-Savvy Teachers
from OnlineCourses.com http://www.onlinecourses.org/2009/09/13/100-best-blogs-for-tech-savvy-teachers/
12 Best Sites to get free images
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/12-essential-sites-for-great-free-photos-
From OpenCulture.com
- Free eBooks: Great Books on your PC, iPhone & Kindle, Listed by openculture.com http://www.openculture.com/free_ebooks>
- The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites from openculture.com http://www.openculture.com/intelligentvideo
- University Video Listing from openculture.com http://www.openculture.com/2007/02/university_vide.html
- Free Movies Online from openculture.com http://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline
- Free Courses Online from openculture.com http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
- Free Foreign Language Lessons from openculture.com http://www.openculture.com/freelanguagelessons
Online Education Database Top 100 Education Blogs http://oedb.org/library/features/top-100-education-blogs
Cool Cat Teacher Blog http://www.coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/
Captain Future e-Learning http://captainfutureelearning.blogspot.com
Search Engines
Refseek
An academic search engine for students, teachers and researchers. Includes web pages, newspapers, journals and books.
25 Best Sites for Free Educational Videos from ReSeek http://www.refseek.com/directory/educational_videos.html
Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network
CKAN is an registry of open content and data in an easily searchable database. CKAN Packages
Math
Open Source Math
http://www.opensourcemath.org/
http://www.opensourcemath.org/opensource_math.html
Math Blogs
Teach Science and Math K12 Blog http://www.teachscienceandmath.com/
Science
Open Source Science
Handbooks
Web Tools: Applied to Teaching
An online/downloadable handbook which features 20 webtools EFL/ESL teachers can use to promote learning in the classroom.
Google Guide for Teachers
33 Page guide
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