Illustrating Your Point Resources

Faculty Professional Development Presentation
Illustrating your Point
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Links to Resources

Getting Going
Respositories & Search Tools
Organizations with Incredible Educational Materials
COOL Examples of Online Materials

GETTING GOING
Before you begin, view this very short, but very helpful tutorial about effective searching

The Art of the Search (again!)
Web Search Strategies in Plain English from Common Craft (check out their other videos tooo!)
http://www.commoncraft.com/web-search-strategies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWHPf00Jkqg (larger format)

RESPOSITORIES and SEARCH TOOLS
These links lead to large treasure troves of materials or to specialized search tools for educational resources.

ccLearn - Discover Ed

http://discovered.creativecommons.org/search/

A "scalable, extensible, federated search for educational resources on the web" developed and hosted by the Creative Commons folks.

OER Commons

http://www.oercommons.org/

An Open Educational Resources search tool

Bellevue College Library Media Center

http://bellevuecollege.edu/lmc/links.html

Many resources here, including those specific to your discipline area.

Teachers' Domain

http://www.teachersdomain.org

Resources often include supplemental materials such as a background/orienting essay, follow-up questions for discussion, and other related materials

AMSER (Applied Math & Science Education Repository)

http://www.amser.org

Big repository, NOT restricted to math and science!

NSDL (National Science Digital Library)

http://www.nsdl.org
Many resources here, including those specific to your discipline area.

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning & Online Teaching)

http://www.merlot.org

An older repository, especially well-stocked with lesson plans and such.

YouTubeEdu

http://www.youtube.com/edu
A megasite that points to all content on university and college YouTube pages.

Teacher Tube

http://www.teachertube.com
Videos for and by educators in the spirit of YouTube.

iTunes University

http://www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning/
Using iTunes on either Mac or PC, you can access a literal world of lectures & podcasts, from Harvard, Cambridge, MIT and other lesser known institutions and individuals. The link above leads to an introduction to iTunes U.

...and don't forget the many other media sharing sites such as YouTube , Flickr and others....

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EXAMPLES OF ORGANIZATIONS WITH RICH EDUCATIONAL MEDIA
Don't overlook media centers, libraries, museums and other cultural organizations. They often have outstanding mixed media materials that are available to educators.

PBS (and sister stations)

http://www.pbs.org
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/
http://www.wgbh.org

Big repository, NOT restricted to math and science!

Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/index.html
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/
Many resources here, including those specific to your discipline area.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/classroom.asp
Online features, printable materials and more.

Densho - The Japanese American Legacy Project

http://www.densho.org/
A vast inventory of oral histories, and more.

United Nations CyberSchoolBus

http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/
Leans toward the K-12, but some cool interactive materials and links to live correspondance with others.

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VERY COOL EXAMPLES OF AVAILABLE RESOURCES
Many of the resources below are wrapped in a layer of support materials, or are just a piece of a larger unit. Do explore these, but as these are just the tip of the iceberg, be sure to use the links above to find your own treasures too!

Writing and Reading the Essay (a full course)

MIT Open Courseware
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Writing-and-Humanistic-Studies/21W-735Fall-2005/CourseHome/
(found by searching DiscoverEd using keywords "essay writing")

Study Guides and Strategies (self-development tools for students)

http://www.studygs.net/schedule/
(found by browsing Merlot's personal collections)

So You Have to Write an Essay (clear how-to)

http://douglasessaywriting.blogspot.com/
(found by searching OER Commons using keywords "essay writing" and refining the search to "post-secondary" and limiting it to media resources)

Algebasics (interactive algebra tutor)

http://www.algebasics.com/
(found on AMSER, featured site)

Flash Animations for Physics (short animations)

http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/Flash/
(found by searching DiscoverEd using keywords "molecules")

Physics Simulations & Lesson Plans (great simulations)

http://phet.colorado.edu
(thanks, Robert Hobbs!)

Infrared Gallery (a quick side-by-side slide show of infrared and regular light images)

WGBH
http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/ess05_int_irgallery/
(found by search Teachers' Domain using keywords "types of light")

How the Heart Works (a full unit, with multiple animations)

National Hearth Lung and Blood Institute
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/hhw/hhw_whatis.html
(found by searching AMSER, using keyword "heart")

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Photovoltaic Energy Animation (how solar works)

Hosted by a group of French students
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/prof.danglais/animations/solarcells/index.htm
(found by searching AMSER, using keywords "how solar works")

Solar Eclipse Animation (small piece on larger site about solar system)

BBC UK
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/sun/solareclipse.shtml
(found on NSDL, searching for "solar system" and screening for video, interactivity, audio)

God and Global Warming (video clips and lesson plans)

NOW / PBS
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/343/
(found by searching PBS.org for global warming)

Songs for Our Times (rewrite historical ballads to fit today)

Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/preview/activities/songs/index.html
(found on the Library of Congress teachers' site)

It's No Laughing Matter: Political Cartoons (dissecting cartoons with Flash)

Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/preview/activities/political-cartoon/model.html
(also found on Library of Congress site searching for grades 9-12, culture&folklife, interactive)

Rabbit in the Moon (accompanying site to documentary on Japanese-American internment)

PBS, KQED
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov1999/rabbitinthemoon/index.html

Pages from Her Story (source documents, related resources )

Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/pages_herstory/toc.html

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Design your Own Movie Theatre Using Conjoint Analysis (lesson plan)

UC Riverside
http://sloan.ucr.edu/conjoint/conjoint_movie/conjoint_movie.htm
(found on Merlot in the Business division)

Food Force (download game for examining issues of global aid and hunger)

United Nations World Food Programme
http://ff.fighthunger.org/index.php/game/
(found by browsing OER Commons using keywords "arts social justice" , refining the search to "post-secondary" and limiting it to media resources

Civil Rights Timeline / James Farmer & the Freedom Rides (deep resources, oral histories, images and videos)

http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/iml04.soc.ush.civil.tl_crmvmt/
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/iml04.soc.ush.civil.farmer/
(found by browsing Social Studies, grades 9-12)

Timeline of Art History (interactive timeline)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC)
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/11/na/ht11na.htm

What is a Print? (interactive tutorial linked to images)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC)
http://www.moma.org/interactives/projects/2001/whatisaprint/flash.html

Trench Warfare (example of instructor-made video lecture)

http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=33779&title=Trench_Warfare
(found by browsing TeacherTube)

Google Earth - Ancient 3D Rome (fly around in the Coliseum!)

http://earth.google.com/rome/index.html

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (primary source documents lesson plans, podcasts by historians)

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/index.html

Gapminder (spatial graphic representation of comprehensive world data)

http://www.gapminder.org/
(found on AMSER featured sites; also used at TED for population showcase)

TED (the ULTIMATE 15-minute brain expander)

http://www.ted.org/