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This is a cool Public Domain Review. Users can go on and browse by medium, images, books, film, audio or by time period.

"The LF10 is a loose association of middle school students in undisclosed locations in cyberspace dedicated to promoting awareness of important academic terms and concepts through absurd stop-motion films"

I checkd out some of the videos the kids made. This looks really engaging. What a great way for kids to demonstrate their understanding.

I checked out some of the projects. What a great way for students to demonstrate understanding of a concept.

SnagLearning is dedicated to presenting high-quality documentary films as educational tools to ignite meaningful discussion within the learning community. Thanks to Richard Byrne.

Black and white movies provides downloads of movies from the 20s through the 70s. Free

Download old black and white movies

The UK-based nonprofit Peace One Day (POD) is offering a free online curriculum focusijng on conflict resolution and nonviolence for grades 6-12. The curriculum aims to foster discussion among young people about peace and nonviolence in their schools, local communities, and the world at large. It is designed to be used in conjunction with the documentary The Day After Peace. POD will distribute free copies of the film to schools using the curriculum.

Free and created for grades 6-12.

With a view of travel as an educational experience like no other, the project makes use of digital media to promote an understanding of different culture and customs to students worldwide. The site hosts virtual field trips to England, Jordan, and South Africa that include more than 160 fort films that correspond to the destinations. Each video explains more about the region's food, music, culture, and language. Since 2003, project explorer has counted more than a million visitors to the site from more than 40 different countries. Recently, it won a Parents' Choice Award for "Outstanding Web Programming." The site's developers qre not working to add a fourth field trip--this one to Malaysia--the Project Explorer has lesson for upper elementary, middle and high school. They plan to offer lesson specifically designed for the early grades.

Teachers and students can easily create FaceBook-style pages to: chart the career of a historical character, create a timeline of important events, outline the main plot of a book, play or film and so on!

" 1- Documentary storm This is a great documentary website that provides over 2000 full length documentaries gathered from several resources all around the web. Each documentary has a short description , there is a download button on and under each video, that is just an advertisement of a video tool and not a download page . 2- Documentaryz This is another cool documentary resource you can use to search for and find good documentaries to use with your students. It has thousands of videos and they are organized under different categories such as Art, Animal, Nature, Biography, Business...etc. 3- Free Documentaries This one here streams full length documentary films free of charge and with no registration needed. Some of the documentaries in this website has trailers and can also be downloaded. You might also like: 6 Things You Didn't Know you Can Do with Dropbox The Four Pillars of Education These Are The 16 Attributes of The Modern Educator 6 Excellent Lego Apps to Enhance Kids Thinking Skills Linkwithin Newer Post Older Post Home Twitter Facebook Google+ Pinterest RSS Email Visit Med's profile on Pinterest. "