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Short video about a library teaching students about digital technology to aid in research

Lesson plan. Students pick American authors to research.

primary source info for history nuts.

Reference and User Services Assoc.

The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.

Over the past few years, I have been collecting interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 70+ videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use.

A new study by alum Christine Greenhow finds social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook have more educational potential than you might think.

Thousands of lectures from the world's top scholars. Might be a useful resource for upper level high school and beyond.