Center for Online & Blended Learning
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Need content? Don’t re-invent the wheel.
80513 years
by cmkraut
in Colloquium
Before you hire a director and camera crew to film your lecture masterpieces, search the web for FREE content that is relevant to your course. Here are a few of our favorite websites and a great video about using online content.
- University Resources: BGSU Library, e-reserves, Digital Video Streaming Server (DVSS)
- Educational Media: Open Culture, Creative Commons licensed work
- Audio books & podcasts: Learn out Loud, Librivox, iTunes Podcast section
- Presentations, Lectures, and Tutorials: Academic Earth, SlideShare, authorSTREAM, iTunesU, Open Courseware Consortium, TED Talks, Khan Academy
- Videos: You know that video you like to show in class? Search for the title on Clicker.com. If it’s on the web, they’ll find it. You can also go directly to the sources:
- Free: YouTube, Hulu, Vimeo, PBS Video, Google Video, virtually any news source like CNN or NY Times.
- Extensive list from OpenCulture.com, scroll past individual titles to see more great websites.
- Subscription based: Netflix, Amazon VOD, iTunes (you can’t embed these, even if you pay for them, and each student would need to get a subscription to view as well. Think of it as a book fee)
Do you have a favorite resource we haven’t mentioned? Tell us about it in your comment!
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-02
0- Have you tried a #GooglePlus Hangout with EXTRAS yet? Collaborative notes, sketch pad, Docs integration, & screen sharing! #bgsuOFT #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-25
2- Students who sign up for HuluPlus with their .edu account will get their free trial expanded to 1 month! #
- “@rkiker: Three Good Sites Where Teachers Can Learn Tech Skills #palisd http://t.co/has49HMl” #bgsuOFT #
- @mwkraut great for K12, too “@rkiker: Twenty Everyday Ways to Model Technology Use for Students #palisd http://t.co/GaJZvnlZ” #
- Looking for a new textbook? Help you students out by using a FREE one. http://t.co/DNGfN0gk #