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A mirror site so that those who cannot receive YouTube can view these amazing videos from MIT for kids K-12. All about everything.

"Mit dieser Episode fahren die Präsentationen der Ergebnisse des ganztägigen Workshop der AG Podcasting am Duisburg Learning Lab fort. Zwei Ergebnisse werden hier Präsentiert! zum Einen die Auseinanderstzung mit einem Sachtext, was wir scherzhaft als "Verpodcasten" bezeichnen, also die mediengerechte Aufbereitung des "unbekannten" Textes mit dem Ziel die Hörerinnen und Hörer über den Inhalt adäquat zu informieren. Der zweite Teil wird für die Freunde mehrerer Sprachen von Interesse sein. Als Podcast "Babel" widmete sich diese Gruppe dem Problem der Mehrsprachigkeit. Vielen Dank den engagierten Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern für die Bereitschaft sich hierauf einzulassen. Abschließend noch die Anmerkung: Wir würden gerne die Ergebnissse der anderen Gruppen ebenso präsentieren. Doch war verabredet, teilweise noch etwas nachzufeilen, teils sich erneut in z.B virtuellen Räumen zu treffen. Damit wir den Verlauf von Bildungimdialog ein wenig planen können, Bitten wir diejenigen, die noch etwas beitragen möchten, um Kontakt per Mail an unsere im Impressum genannte Addresse. Vielen Dank!"

"Schaffe eine zentrale Anlaufstelle für deine Sache. Arbeite mit anderen zusammen, vereinfache die Organisation einer Gruppe und tausche dich mit Gleichgesinnten aus." A free place to share and communicate. Examples of communities in several different languages.

This site also contains links to over 1,000 free courses online at Google, MIT, et al.

"Why do many students have difficulty transitioning from ESL programs to the mainstream curriculum? One reason is that many of them don't understand what is expected in U.S. colleges and universities. To address this problem, I decided to create a video series that gives students the opportunity to practice with authentic examples of the courses they will soon enroll in. Also crucial would be devising accompanying materials that would help students learn from the examples provided. It's one thing to watch a YouTube lecture from Yale or MIT, but quite another to understand a class within the context of academic norms in the United States. " Excellent advice for getting EFL students ready to study online or in the U.S.

"Tynker is a new computing platform designed specifically to teach children computational learning and programming skills in a fun and imaginative way. Tynker is inspired by Scratch from MIT. It is a completely browser-based implementation written using Open Web standards such as Javascript, HTML5, CSS3 and does not use Flash. "Tynker's language extensions, built-in physics engine, character editors and other tools make it fun and easy for kids to unleash their creativity. Schools love Tynker because it offers them an easy to use cloud-hosted system for delivering a customized Computer Science course across multiple grades with a ready to use curriculum, classroom management and more. Tynker is the platform of choice at many leading schools - see what educators are saying." This looks like an interesting, creative way to unleash students' curiosity. I'm assuming it's for younger kids, but older students may enjoy it too.

Not only excellent video lectures, but extraordinary support, with transcripts, subtitles, quizzes with answer keys,lecture notes, labs, downloadable materials, and the opportunity to join a study group, etc., depending on the course. Over 2700 courses in science, humanities, engineering, architecture, etc. Also good for teachers preparing to teach ESP.

This looks like a great project, with pages to help you design your own apps, step-by-step guides, a library for App Inventor (the tool), curriculum and resources for teachers, and a community forum to get answers. Now if only we had time . . .

This blog discusses a tool that allows you to collect data on your personal use of email, and helps you understand all the controversy over government collection of data. "They have created a new program called Immersion. It works by signing you into your Gmail account and collecting only the meta-data from your account usage history. From there you can get a picture of your emailing habits from that single account, and you will be shocked at what you see. "According to the three creators, there are four purposes to the program: self-reflection, artistic representation, privacy revelations and the ability to develop a strategy in your communications on a professional level."

These are some good tools, some of which may be new to you. Includes Dipity, Document Suite (an authoring tool to transform documents into online help modules), Izzui to track and deliver courses, LessonWriter, Scratch from the MIT MEdia Lab for content creation, timeliners, course builders of various sorts, and a list of free podcasting, polling, and quizzing tools. Not much for mobile technology. There is a lot here to explore.

This is the kind of real-life project that makes sense to students an could be used for extensive vocabulary and syntax development. The app used to create Chow Checker (which finds allergens in foods you enter into the app) is free from MIT App Inventor, which has extensive help and documentation. R. Byrne claims you can get students started with this without knowing anything about app programming yourself.

A podcast series of original music and lyrics played and sung by Tim Murphey for English language learners. Soft, gentle music with lots of repetitions and useful phrases and expressions, e.g. "raining cats and dogs."

"Interactive, Collaborative, Crowd-powered Video Learning" MIT is using Crowdy to label and insert questions in segments of video to increase learning efficiency. Stats can be collected from learners' answers.

Welcome to the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993.