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Open Culture - 0 views

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open culture education

shared by scott klepesch on 02 Jan 11 - Cached
  • scott klepesch on 02 Jan 11
     
    Open Culture- best free cultural and educational media on the web
scott klepesch

Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history - 1 views

smarthistory.org

Art History opensource

shared by scott klepesch on 08 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Debra Gottsleben on 08 Dec 10
     
    Smarthistory.org is a free, not-for-profit, multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook. Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker began smARThistory in 2005 by creating a blog featuring free audio guides in the form of podcasts for use in The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Soon after, we embedded the audio files in our online survey courses.
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  • Debra Gottsleben on 08 Dec 10
     
    Extremely well done site. Added tag for world history.
  • scott klepesch on 01 Mar 11
     
    Open Source materials for Art History. Narrative slideshows about different time periods.
  • scott klepesch on 01 Mar 11
     
    Open Source material for infusing art history into the classroom. Definitely worth exploring
Debra Gottsleben

Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone with Free eBooks, Movies, Audio Books, Courses & Mor... - 0 views

www.openculture.com/..._audio_books_courses_more.html

online classes ipad iphone ebooks audio books videos kindle

shared by Debra Gottsleben on 28 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Debra Gottsleben on 28 Dec 11
     
    links to free ebooks, audio bks, and more!
Debra Gottsleben

Gooru - 0 views

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search engine resources science math education searching assessment

shared by Debra Gottsleben on 21 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Debra Gottsleben on 21 Jul 12
     
    An Open Educational Resources site OER; in beta now. "Gooru is a search engine for learning that allows you to explore and study over 2,600 standards-aligned and personalized study guides. Study guides cover 5th-12th grade math and science topics, and resources include digital textbooks, animations, instructor videos and more. All resources are vetted and organized by teachers or Gooru's content experts, so you don't have to sort through the mess of subpar educational resources available online yourself. Gooru also makes it easy for you to connect with your worldwide peers to make learning a social experience. Post questions to an active community of students, teachers and experts, or find friends and peers to study with. Best of all, Gooru adapts to you. Based on the topics you study and your performance on self-assessments, Gooru suggests resources and study guides that will help you master the concepts. You can track your study habits and monitor your performance on any of the topics you study."
  • Debra Gottsleben on 21 Jul 12
     
    Not sure what resources are here for social studies but still looks like a very interesting site. Think you should check it out for resources and to share with students.
Christopher Kenny

Stuck in boarding school, but liberated by an online education! « OSG's AP U.... - 0 views

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education government online

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  • Christopher Kenny on 28 Feb 12
     
    A look how AP Government online course opened up a person's mind to larger events affecting her through boarding school.
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http://teachpaperless.blogspot.com/2011/01/time-for-non-exams.html - 0 views

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teachpaperless assessment

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  • scott klepesch on 07 Jan 11
     
    This year, I've designed non-exams for my Human Geo students that will assess their ability to apply what they've learned over the course of the year to real-world problems using full open access to the Net as well as collaboration with their peers during "exam time".
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Six Reasons Why Textbooks Should Stop Being Textbooks : 2¢ Worth - 0 views

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ebooks digital

shared by scott klepesch on 23 May 11 - No Cached
  • This makes a lot of sense to me — textbook as platform to be populated by the very teachers who will use them.
  • Can’t teachers respectfully and with regard for the law select, shape, mash and mix existing digital content into modules or learning objects for their learners. Might we even see commercial modules, produced by what use to be the textbook industry, t
  • ollowing the same model, communities of teachers can contributed well researched and carefully designed modules for portions of their curriculum (or standards if you insist) that they know well and about which they are especially passionate.
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  • Might content curation become a 21st century skill that learners should be developing as part of their formal education? Should students be guided in growing their own digital textbooks into personal digital libraries?
  • scott klepesch on 23 May 11
     
    "Yesterday, Mashable author, Sarah Kessler, wrote "The Case for Making Online Textbooks Open Source," where she drew attention to programs at MIT and Carnegie Mellon that post lectures and other course materials online for free. "
Debra Gottsleben

Soundcities by Stanza. The Global soundmaps project. Sounds from around the world in an... - 0 views

soundcities.com

sound audio music maps global

shared by Debra Gottsleben on 27 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Debra Gottsleben on 27 Mar 11
     
    Soundcities allows you to visit cities around the world and browse sound files. It's open so anyone can upload sounds which is what makes it so interesting. I love the idea of something created and growing thanks to individuals on the ground sharing what they're doing or seeing or, in this case, hearing. It's a wonderful, collaborative and authentic result.
  • Debra Gottsleben on 27 Mar 11
     
    Great concept crowdsourcing the sounds of a region or city
Debra Gottsleben

Oolone.com visual search engine. Open your eyes to the web. - 0 views

oolone.com

search engine information literacy search visual

shared by Debra Gottsleben on 07 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Debra Gottsleben on 07 Aug 12
     
    "a visual search engine that displays results in 4 grids which give webpage previews. The entire page is visible in preview instead of just a list of results with links and summaries. Oolone can be used for standard website search, for image search, or news search.
  • Debra Gottsleben on 07 Aug 12
     
    This search engine is so visual it may be very helpful for some students. Check it out.
Betiana Caprioli

No Sweet Home, Alabama - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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immigration latinos

shared by Betiana Caprioli on 17 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • The contagion of Alabama’s shame became apparent in April, during the oral argument before the Supreme Court on Arizona’s immigration legislation, the test case for several similar state laws aimed primarily at Hispanics. All have been substantially blocked by federal courts, except Alabama’s, most of which went into effect last fall, catastrophically achieving the goal Arizona calls “attrition through enforcement” — also known as “self-deportation.”
  • I realized how dismayingly reliable Alabama remained as the country’s moral X-ray, exposing the broken places.
  • If Alabama, the cradle of the civil rights movement, can retool Jim Crow as Juan Crow, what have we learned?
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  • Thanks to H.B. 56 (the “Beason-Hammon Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act”), passed a year ago by the state’s first Republican Legislature since Reconstruction, I am ashamed of being from Alabama.
  • Since Alabama has no foreign border and a Latino population of less than 4 percent, the main purpose of H.B. 56 seems to be the id-gratification of tribal dominance and its easy political dividends. A bill co-sponsor, State Senator Scott Beason, was frank about his motive: “when their children grow up and get the chance to vote, they vote for Democrats.”
  • The city had nearly finessed that dialectic during the memorial in October for a local civil rights legend, the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth. Flying into the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, the protagonists of the movement — Andrew Young, John Lewis, Joseph Lowery — were greeted at the funeral by Gov. Robert Bentley with words of regret about his segregated youth. So cordial was the network of mutuality that it was at least an hour into the six-hour service before speakers pointed out that Governor Bentley had signed the immigration law that reinvented the sin from which Mr. Shuttlesworth had supposedly delivered us.
  • When the Justice Department investigated the state for demanding checks on schoolchildren, the defiant reaction of Alabama’s attorney general prompted comparisons to George C. Wallace’s 1963 “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door” at the University of Alabama.
  • Leading with a reference to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” some 150 ministers formally condemned H.B. 56 for preventing them from fulfilling the doctrine of the good Samaritan by making it illegal to give assistance to illegal immigrants, the basis of a suit against the state by three Christian denominations.
  • A statement co-author, Matt Lacey, received dozens of e-mails from the law’s defenders beginning, “I’m a Christian but.” They saw no distinction between the bureaucratic category of “undocumented” and the moral one of “criminal”
  • “Are you objecting to harassing the people who have no business being here?”
  • The South’s culture of kindness is real and must account for the most poignant theme of the Human Rights Watch report: how many of those repudiated “aliens” professed an attachment to Alabama. “I love here,” said a 19-year-old, in the state since he was 9. Now the cycle of bigotry is renewed, poisoning a new generation of Americans on both sides.
  • A University of Alabama economist placed the law’s damage to the state in the billions of dollars.
  • The annual re-enactment of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march for voting rights was refashioned as an anti-H.B. 56 protest. My heart began to mend at a perverse prospect: in half a century, would Alabama be honoring the remarkable community uprising that overcame H.B. 56?
  • In May the Legislature passed an “improved” bill
  • It forced the police to obtain papers from passengers as well as drivers, and it ordered the state to maintain a database of known “illegals,” recalling antebellum ads spotlighting runaway slaves.
  • The law still exempts domestics, observing the plantation hierarchy of “house Negroes” and “field hands.”
  • We know how the fight will turn out, just as it was long obvious the Constitution could not condone segregation forever. But the fight will be ceaselessly reprised, shattering lives before the inevitable is allowed to happen.
  • At least in Alabama, the civil rights movement, like the football team, knows what it takes to win.
scott klepesch

Free Social Teaching and Learning Network focused solely on education - 0 views

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Sophia open source materials

shared by scott klepesch on 16 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • scott klepesch on 16 Mar 11
     
    is a free platform on which teachers can publish packets of information about any academic topic they choose. Packets can include text, images, and videos to explain and illustrate information. Published packets are reviewed and rated by the Sophia community. A green check mark emblem on a packet signifies that the Sophia community has rated that packet as "academically sound."
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