Resources-Media

> //This collection provides a list of **free educational resources for K-12 students** (kindergarten through high school students) and their parents and teachers. It features [|free video lessons/tutorials]; [|free mobile apps]; [|free audiobooks, ebooks and textbooks]; [|quality YouTube channels]; [|free foreign language lessons]; [|test prep materials]; and [|free web resources] in academic subjects like literature, history, the arts, science and computing. This newly-released list is a work in progress.// > Shmoop has added even more free online Learning Guides to its Web site to help students and teachers prepare for the school year. The Learning Guides now span 12 subject areas, including U.S. History and Literature. Students can also access College 101, a free guide to college admissions that covers topics such as entrance tests, financial aid, and scholarships.
 * Web-Based, Free Resources:**
 * **Open Resources and Classrooms** (from the article: //Does The Online Education Revolution Mean The Death Of The Diploma?// Written by: [|Michael Karnjanaprakorn]
 * Textbook companies have to change now that everything’s going digital, and top learning institutions are offering their courses for free on the Internet. Educational resources, data, and technology are becoming more accessible than ever through programs like:
 * Curriki
 * MIT’s OpenCourseWare,
 * CK12,
 * California’s Free Digital Textbook Initiative, and
 * The Faculty Project.
 * In fact, the entire Bering Straight School District in Alaska has implemented a wiki-style format for its curriculum. Which city is next?
 * Teacher's Domain, is a free digital media service for educational use from public broadcasting and its partners at THIRTEEN. You’ll find thousands of media resources, support materials, and tools for classroom lessons, individualized learning programs, and teacher professional learning communities. You can create an account for free, search for materials by standard, subject, grade level, or PD opportunity and save the media to your acocunt to stay organized. JACKPOT!
 * Digital Learning Day's Lesson Resource site (lesson, media, etc)
 * Toolkits - The Alliance develops toolkits to provide digital learning resources and ideas for teachers in specific subject areas. The tools and resources in these toolkits are not the totality of good information available; instead, they are designed to provide guidance on how technology and digital learning can enhance the educational experience and outcomes for all students. We continue to add to this collection and welcome any ideas, tools, models, or resources. Learn & Explore with these incredible toolkits!
 * [|civics]
 * [|english language arts]
 * [|expanded learning]
 * [|mathematics]
 * [|project based learning]
 * [|science]
 * [|social studies]
 * [|200 Free K-12 Educational Resources: Video Lessons, Mobile Apps, Free Books & More]
 * Using Show Me, teachers and students have the ability to both teach and learn from the community of videos. Used as a student directed activity, Show Me empowers students to think about a topic and how it should be presented. As educators, we know that the highest level of understanding is achieved when a student knows the material well enough to teach it. Show me give students that opportunity through the use of technology.
 * Khan Academy: Short videos on nearly every subject. Highly acclaimed collection!
 * **MIT+K12:** Massachusetts Institute of Technology [|announced a new initiative] that, in collaboration with the Khan Academy, encourages MIT students to create short, interesting videos about STEM subjects aimed at K-12 learners. The videos are available [|directly from MIT] or through the initiative's [|YouTube Channel] (the initiative is called MIT+K12). Some videos will also appear on the [|Khan Academy's website].
 * **TED Ed**: TED-Ed initiative—[|a new website] dedicated to TED's education channel. ([|They launched the first phase, a YouTube channel, back in mid-March].) The website currently contains a few dozen videos, which are tagged by subject for easy searching, as well as supplemental materials such as multiple-choice quizzes, questions about the videos, and links to additional information. Also, teachers can "flip" the materials, meaning that supplementary resources will be opened on a new page where teachers can edit them how they wish.
 * LearnZillion (math): LearnZillion makes life easier by putting high quality instruction at your fingertips. Use LearnZillion to get practical teaching resources, to create playlists for your class, to track homework effortlessly, and to give your students the right lesson at the right time.LearnZillion is high quality instruction you can count on!
 * [|400 Free Online Courses from Top Universities]
 * PBS Learning Media
 * Go Social Studies Go! - Multimedia Social Studies Textbook
 * Pics4Learning: copyright free Images for your presentations: @http://www.pics4learning.com/
 * **Shmoop New Learning Guides (www.shmoop.com)**
 * [[image:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TkhlSyyP58U/THgzU2-O3DI/AAAAAAAAHQA/cM_gtIYHb74/s400/Screen+shot+2010-08-27+at+5.34.59+PM.png width="106" height="47" align="right" link="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TkhlSyyP58U/THgzU2-O3DI/AAAAAAAAHQA/cM_gtIYHb74/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-08-27+at+5.34.59+PM.png"]][|Snag Learning] offers access to hundreds of high quality documentary videos. Snag Learning categorizes documentaries by grade level and content area. Additionally, Snag Learning offers a series of guiding questions for each film. You can embed previews of each video into your blog, but you have to watch the full-length versions on [|Snag Learning]. //(post courtesy of Free Technology for Teachers)//
 * [[image:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TkhlSyyP58U/SkNzITCZugI/AAAAAAAAEUA/gZp2LinTBjA/s320/explore.png width="166" height="18" align="right" link="http://explore.org/"]][|Explore.org] produces and hosts high-quality documentary films and photographs. The films and images focus on exploring the world and the work of non-profit organizations around the world. The films and images are organized by destination. There are twelve destinations in all including China, Tibet, the Middle East, and India. Explore.org is funded in part by the [|Annenburg Foundation]. //(post courtesy of Free Technology for Teachers)//
 * [[image:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nzD0PboW_BA/TmZY8fhspeI/AAAAAAAAIe4/AOl66R3Q1gw/s200/Screen+shot+2011-09-06+at+1.30.40+PM.png width="156" height="25" align="right" link="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nzD0PboW_BA/TmZY8fhspeI/AAAAAAAAIe4/AOl66R3Q1gw/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-06+at+1.30.40+PM.png"]][|Documentary Heaven] is a free site that has organized more than 1600 documentary films found across the Internet. Through Documentary Heaven can find documentaries covering all kinds of topics in science, history, politics, business, and many more categories. The videos are sourced from a variety of services including, but not limited to, YouTube. //(post courtesy of Free Technology for Teachers)//
 * [[image:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TkhlSyyP58U/Siarp4tg2nI/AAAAAAAAEG8/MUsfI_L4koU/s320/Picture+1.png width="207" height="26" align="right" link="http://www.folkstreams.net/"]][|Folk Streams] is a good website featuring documentary films of American life. Visitors to [|Folk Streams] will find films about various demographic segments of the population as well as films about regions of the country. The films are produced by independent directors and come from a variety of distributors. Most of the films appear to be between thirty and sixty minutes in length although there are some films outside of that range. Visitors to [|Folk Streams] can search by region, subject, title, filmmaker, or distributor. //(post courtesy of Free Technology for Teachers)//
 * [|Top Documentary Films] is a catalog of documentaries gathered from across the web. Top Documentary Films doesn't actually host the videos rather it serves as a directory of documentaries. Each documentary includes a screen image, a summary, and either an embedded video or a link to the source where you can watch the film for free. //(post courtesy of Free Technology for Teachers)//
 * __World Digital Library__ - hosts nearly 5,000 primary documents and images from collections around the world. Sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the mission of the [|World Digital Library] is to promote the study and understanding of cultures. The [|WDL] can be searched by date, era, country, continent, topic, and type of resource.
 * 11 Ways to Find and View Panoramic Images Thanks to developments in camera and web technology it has become quite easy to capture panoramic imagery. Panoramic imagery provides viewers of a better sense of the view one experiences when standing in a location. For example, a panorama of the Grand Canyon is more informative than a standard image view. Here are some great places where you can find panoramic imagery online.

 The SAFARI Montage suite of hardware and software modules is a fully integrated solution that offers a variety of administrative and educational tools to manage and deliver digital media throughout the school district. DPS administrators, teachers and students will use a single interface for accessing their classroom media and visual instruction resources.  The agreement will give DPS’ 80,000+ students access to K-12 educational content, including //PBS, BBC, National Geographic, The History Channel, BIO, Disney Educational, Schlessinger Media, Scholastic// and others. And the SAFARI Montage Managed Home Access module will extend all of DPS’ digital resources beyond the classroom and into the homes of teachers for lesson planning and professional development. > Discovery Education has made upgrades and enhancements for its digital learning service, Discovery Educationstreaming. The service has new resources, better navigation, and a free, threeweek webinar series to help teachers incorporate digital resources into their curricula. > Encyclopedia Britannica has developed Britannica Pathways: Science, an online teaching resource that helps teachers explain difficult concepts and supports independent learning. The resource encourages the development of key skills, including critical thinking, discussion, research and evaluation. It offers interactive classroom activities and encourages students to examine evident and test hypotheses. //--- Britannica Pathways: Science, a new standards-correlated online tool that uses a "probe" framework to target commonly held misconceptions within the context of the existing science curriculum for grades 6, 7, and 8.// > **(www.learn360.com)** > Learn360 has announced an update of its online video content to correlate with Common Core Standards and 21st-century skills. Teachers, parents, and students can be given access to this content to support fully integrating technology into the classroom. > **(www.ndmquestar.com)** > The company announced that it will offer an exclusively STEM-focused streaming-media program in January 2012 to help bolster students’ achievement in these areas. The service will feature more than 300 programs from NDM’s content catalog, including standards-based programming from Bill Nye the Science Guy and the National Science Foundation. Online learning developer Wowzers® announced that it has unveiled its flagship product – an adaptive, games-based classroom learning solution for delivering engaging 3rd-5th grade math content. Built on a cloud-based platform, Wowzers delivers math Common Core curriculum via story-driven games and activities that lets students learn at their own pace. Wowzers was recently recognized with the CODiE Award for Best K-12 Solution and Best Classroom Management System from the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). For more information visit www.wowzers.com. > >
 * Subscription-Based Media Services**
 * Safari Montage - (@http://www.safarimontage.com/)
 * **Discovery Educationstreaming (www.discoveryeducation.com)**
 * **BrainPop and BrainPop Jr.**
 * **Britannica Pathways: Science** ([|www.pathways.eb.com])
 * **Learn360 Video Content Aligned To CCSS and 21st-Century Skills**
 * **New Dimension Media STEM Streaming-Media Program**
 * **Interactive Math Games For Grades 3-5 Introduced**
 * (@http://www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=67&EntryId=4530)**

__**E-Books**__
 * **Bookstream** **(www.donjohnston.com)** Bookstream is a new cloud-based library that delivers eBooks to students’ iPads, smartphones, and laptops. Developed by Don Johnston, Bookstream makes it easy for educators to hop on the Internet, upload eBooks, and share them with students for anytime reading. The program was designed to help educators comply with IDEA 2004, which requires schools to deliver core curriculum in accessible formats to support students with disabilities.
 * myON reader is providing students access to over 2600 enhanced digital books matched to their interests and reading level creating a personalized reading program for all levels. myON reader is easy to implement, intuitive to use and innovative to students by leveraging technology to provide rapid access to the digital books. Embedded assessments allow administrators and teachers to report on student reading growth based on real time data. Students connect with myON because of the technology, and anytime anywhere access to great books.