Relevance Magazine: Career Options for your Future

Saskatchewan Career Resource - this may be of some interest to your students involved in making career decisions.

What other resources do you use in your school to help students with career choices?

Relevance Magazine: Career Options for your Future

Academic Earth - Video lectures from the world's top scholars

It's new and it is in a 'beta' state; however, Academic Earth is something to keep your eyes on. Currently, it offers thousands of post-secondary lectures from authorative sources - all free. The creators of this repository have worked hard to integrate features into it that make it extra useful.

Each lecture has a side bar with a selection of special options, such as a download to iPod option, a citation option, an 'embed' option that gives you code you can copy and paste into your website (this means that you can distribute the video to your students without having to host the video on your server. Nice!).

Each lecture is rated by registered users of the website (registration is free!). So over time, the most highly rated lecture will float to the top. While in the 'beta' state, Academic Earth strongly encourages users to leave feedback on any bugs you find as well as to make suggestions on how to improve the service. At the time of launching, it is billed as "Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars." Not bad for a start, where will it be a year from now! What do you think?

Academic Earth - Video lectures from the world's top scholars

NFB makes films free online

The National Film Board of Canada has launched a new project to allow Canadians to see its films through online streaming.

Oscar winners such as 1952's Neighbours, 1977's I'll Find a Way and 2004's Ryan are among the more than 700 films now available for screening online at NFB.ca.

The online screening room was created as part of a $1.3-million project to digitize the NFB's collection of historic films.

Check out http://www.nfb.ca/ to see their Online Screening Room and view a great diversity of Canadian film.

NFB makes films free online

Exploratree - Exploratree by FutureLab

Thinking Guides are tools or frameworks for thinking through an issue and considering different aspects or perspectives. They can help to develop thinking skills.

This website has a number of templates that students can fill in to help organize and communicate their thinking on a particular topic. There is a free registration option which allows the completed template to be customized, saved and forwarded to others. If you do any mind mapping or employ organizational tools in your classroom, check this out.

Exploratree - Exploratree by FutureLab

Cell Phones in Education

Have you ever wondered how teachers are using cell phones for educational purposes? This collection of links illustrates a wide variety of applications.

Cell Phones in Education

Free Audio Books

I found this site with over 100 free audio books available for download or streaming. There are many great resources here.

Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free Open Culture

Jan 28: another site is http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/. Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format.

A Growing List of Free Learning Tutorial Sites

From http://zaidlearn.wikispaces.com/

Here is the initial quick list:

• Learning 2.0 Programme
  This blog has been set-up as part of PLCMC's Learning 2.0 project to encourage staff to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today.
  
• An Introduction to Social Learning(Jane Hart)
  Provides you with a practical approach to getting started with using social media for both formal and informal learning - either in the form of best-of-breed stand-alone tools or in an integrated suite of social media tools.
  
  
• ELearning T4T (WikiEducator)
  eLearning Training for Teachers is a project node for the collaborative development of "just-in-time" tutorials to help educators implement eLearning successfully.

• WebTools4u2use
  The purpose of this website is to provide a place for K-12 school library media specialists to learn a little more about web tools that can be used to improve and enhance school library media programs and services, to see examples of how they can be used, and to share success stories and creative ideas about how to use and integrate them. Hundreds of free and inexpensive web tools are available for school library media specialists to use that can make us more productive, valued, and, perhaps, more competitive.

• Paul's E-Learning Resources
  This E-learning resources website is developed and maintained by Paul Andrews (Learning Technologist). On this site you will find his favourite links to free on-line services that allow you to provide your students with enhanced learning opportunities which you can then embed into, or link from, your school/college/university's website, course blog or VLE/MLE.

• Teacher Training Videos (Russell Stannard)
  These videos were created for teachers to help them to incorporate technology into their teaching. Just click and a video will open and take you through how to use that technology. These videos are for any teachers or lecturers, indeed for anyone interested in learning how to use the technologies. WOW!

• Resource Kit for Creative Communities (e-Learning)
  In this resource kit, community organisations can find helpful online guidance, ideas and tools for developing and facilitating e-learning in communities and regions. The kit includes suggestions and options on the why and how of e-learning. You'll find guidance on low cost tools and technologies, as well as ideas and stories to help you get started.

• Multimedia Training Videos
  A series of free learning videos (by Russell Stannard and Savraj Matharu) that explore Flash, Director and Photoshop.

• ALISON
  Free Interactive Workplace Skills Courseware including Touch Typing Skills, European
  Computer Driving Licence (ECDL), British Computer Society (BCS) Unit E, Financial Literacy and e-Citizen

• The Moodle Academy
  Is designed to be a drop in centre for you to reinforce your Moodle skills. While we are thinking Moodle, we might want to check out Using Moodle 2nd Edition, which is the second edtion of the O'Reilly book "Using Moodle" by Jason Cole and Helen Foster.
  

• Moodle Tutorials
  Ops, can't get Moodle out of my head! Check out this collection of 2 Minute Moodles - an attempt to simplify and show how to use a range of Moodle features. The tutorials try not to assume too much previous knowledge and are presented for the pragmatical and not necessarily tech-savy users (Moodle purists please excuse).

• Google Apps Training
  The Google Apps interactive tutorial provides clear audio and text directions and practice exercises for using six Google products; email, calendar, talk, docs, sites, and start page.

• Go-2-School
  A great resource for learning Google SketchUp and Google Earth.

• W3Schools
  Here you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP.
  
  
• Edumax
  Edumax is an online learning website that provides
  free lessons on topics from personal development to computer programming.

• TechTutorials
  A directory containing thousands of free tutorials for IT professionals, hobbyists, and home users.

PhET: Free online physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math simulations

These are great Java-based simulations you can either download to your computer or run off their website. Check out these great applications to help students visualize a number of science concepts.

PhET: Free online physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math simulations

PicLits.com - Create a PicLit

Check this out - a place where budding authors can create and share their work.

See the full PicLit at PicLits.com

PicLits.com - Create a PicLit