Podcasts and Text about Books
Book Lust with Nancy Pearl (itunes podcast)
Book Review: The New York Times Podcast (itunes podcast)
The Christian Science Monitor: Books (itunes podcast)
Comic Book Talk Radio -radio-based booktalks about comics
International Reading Association- Reading Online -
Reading Online is a freely available, online-only publication of the International Reading Association (IRA), a professional organization of literacy educators. Its focus is literacy practice and research in classrooms serving students aged 5 to 18. “Literacy” is broadly defined to include traditional print literacy, as well as visual literacy, critical literacy, media literacy, digital literacy, and so on.
This site offers original features and peer-reviewed articles, reviews, and website recommendations published between May 1997 and June 2005, along with resources reprinted from other IRA journals. It is offered as an archived collection, and is not at present accepting new materials for publication.
Readers Circle Booktalks - podcasts by students
Podcasts and Text about Books
Online Classes
a video depot for individual lectures and entire courses from some of the top universities in the United States. Visitors to Academic Earth will find lectures and courses from Yale, MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford. Many of the lectures and courses can be found at various websites on the Internet. What Academic Earth does is take all of those lectures and courses and put them in one, easy-to-search, place. Includes Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, History, Law, Mathematics, Medicine, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religion
Annenberg Media - online streaming courses (free), video available for purchase in Arts, Foreign Language, Literature and Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies and History; This is a free site but you do have to register. It has lots of videos (VODs as they refer to them) for all ages and subjects.
Big Think - We are a global forum connecting people and ideas.
California Streaming U: fresnolibrary, p: fresno09 [example on desktop- small video]
Includes video, audio, images, print resources, podcasts; teachers can set up classes, pacing plans, assignments, units, training center, lesson plans, assessments, media lists, weblinks, current events
CNN Student News Video (itunes) and Cable in the Classroom Website with additional podcasts
website; also check itunes
Connect 2 Texas - The purpose of this site is to promote programs offered by interactive videoconferencing providers in the State of Texas.
Current - news, movies, music, green, gaming, tech, comedy, art and style videos
Careers/ Work Place Skills, English/ Language Arts, Health, Mathematics, Research/ Study Skills, Science, Social Studies, Teaching Practices, Visual and Performing Arts, World Languages; Grade Levels K - 12; video, articles, audio, clipart, event, image, song, sound effect, speech
Edublogs.tv - Career and Technology Education, College and University, Elementary, Fine Arts, High School, Languages, Math, Middle School, Moodle, Prof. Dev., Reading, Science, Social Sciences, Writing videos
The Futures Channel - connecting learning to the real world; videos on agriculture, animals, architecture, art and music, business and commerce, design, earth science, environment, science and technology, space science, sports, transportation, algebra, mathematics, problem solving
Hippo Campus: Homework and Study Help; Your Free One-Stop Educational Resource
Algebra, Algebra (Spanish), American Government, Biology, Calculus, Calculus (Spanish), Environmental Science, Physics, Psychology, Religion, Statistics, U. S. History
How Stuff Works - How Stuff Works is a product of Discovery Communications. On How Stuff Works you can find text information, videos, audio, and maps about almost any topic. I spent a lot of time looking at videos from the history and geography sections of How Stuff Works. Most of the videos are short, under ten minutes, but very educational. Visitors to How Stuff Works can find videos about the history and geography of every continent.
Applications for Education
How Stuff Works is a great place for students and teachers to explore and find content on a wide variety of topics. Most of the content on How Stuff Works is appropriate for students ages 11 or older. The categories that seem to have the most direct relevance to schools are the history, geography, and science sections.
iCue immerse. connect. understand. excel. U.S. History, Environmental Science, English Language and Comp., U.S. Gov. and Politics
Free Videos for children on animals, astronomy, biology, chemistry, dinosaures, geography, geology, history, human biology, math, memory, and spelling
Math A Tube - explanations and videos of mathematics
Next Vista - An online library of free videos for learners everywhere - find resources to help you learn just about anything, meet people who make a difference in their communities, and even discover new parts of the world. And Next Vista for Learning wants to post your educational videos online, too. Everyone has an insight to share and yours may be just what some student or teacher somewhere needs!
Nibipedia - Together we learn; Nibipedia takes the concepts of Wikipedia and YouTube and combines them. In other words if every Wikipedia entry had a YouTube or a Ted Talk video attached to it, you would have Nibipedia.
Reuters Video: Top News Video News Feed
Snag Films - Snag Films is a new website featuring full length, high quality, well known documentaries. Documentaries from National Geographic and Nova can be watched for free on Snag Films as well as documentaries from independent film makers. The "snagging" part of Snag Films lies in the option to share the documentaries by embedding them into your blog, website, or social network profile for free.
Teacher Tube - an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.
Teachers.tv - Teachers.tv is a UK- based website of videos for teachers and about teaching. Teachers.tv provides hundreds of videos available for free download. On Teachers.tv there are videos for all grade levels and content areas. Teachers.tv also has videos about teaching methods and practices.
TED - Ideas worth spreading;
Inspired talks by the world's leading thinkers and doers
Untamed Science - a collection of videos and podcasts about biology and Earth science topics
You Tube Edu - videos and channels from our college and university partners
Booktalks/ Video Book Trailers
13 Reasons Why Hannah Baker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ushyNJhnrs&feature=related
Booktalk.org - quality books, good people, great conversations; online booktalk forum;
Join us in reading and discussing fiction, non-fiction, short stories, poetry and just about anything else imaginable. At BookTalk.org you help us decide what we read and discuss!
Enjoy live author chats where you can talk to your favorite authors in an informal casual setting.
Bookscreening.com - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Class of 2k8 - features authors and book trailers from books of 2008
Harper Teen: http://www.youtube.com/user/harperteen
Digital Book Talk - Creating a Community of avid readers, one video at a time!
The Invention of Hugo Cabret - just one book but worth the visit
Northwest High School Library- Naomi Bates, Librarian , Book Blog, Digital Booktalks, and Book Podcasts
Northwest High School Podcasts - go to digital booktalk, Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Scholastic Video Booktalks- Video Booktalks, Video Book Trailers, Author Read-Alouds
Teacher Tube -The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
You Tube -
Ishmael Beah - Excerpt from "A Long Way Gone"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3OcYVQ9o3o
http://www.awesomestories.com/newsletters/february-2009-highlights
AwesomeStories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose - since the site was first launched in 1999 - is to help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites.
Sources held in archives, which document so much important first-hand information, are often not searchable by popular search engines. One needs to search within those institutional sites directly, using specific search phrases not readily discernible to non-scholars. The experience can be frustrating, resulting in researchers leaving key sites without finding needed information.
AwesomeStories is about primary sources. The stories exist as a way to place original materials in context and to hold those links together in an interesting, cohesive way (thereby encouraging people to look at them). It is a totally different kind of web site in that its purpose is to place primary sources at the forefront - not the opinions of a writer. Its objective is to take the site's users to places where those primary sources are located.
Enjoy an interactive learning experience as you see thousands of hand-selected and relevant links to pictures, slide-shows, videos, audio-clips, artifacts, manuscripts, documents and other primary sources linked, in context, within each story.
Free Technology for Teachers -
A review of free technology resources and how teachers can use them. Ideas for technology integration in education.
Slide Map - Photos of the World on a Map of the World (blog review) (direct link)
Find Country - Improve Your Geography Knowledge (blog review) (direct link)
Stat Planet - Interactive Data Visualization (blog review) (direct link)
Geo Greeting - (blog review) (direct link)
Geo Commons Map Maker (blog review) (direct link)
Statetris - Tetris for Maps (blog review) (direct link)
Reach the World - Geography Games (blog review) (direct link)
Thematic Mapping Engine (blog review) (direct link)
Five Interactive Geography Games
Visual Geography (blog review) (direct link)
Science (from Free Technology for Teachers)
Forces of Nature (blog review) (direct link)
Pest World for Kids (blog review) (direct link)
Lesson Plans from the Department of Energy (blog review) (direct link)
Science Buddies (blog review) (direct link)
Understanding the Water Cycle (blog review) (direct link)
Who Wants to be a Science Millionaire? (blog review) (direct link)
Periodic Table of Videos (blog review) (direct link)
Phun Physics Simulator (blog review) (direct link)
Atlas of Our Changing Environment (blog review) (direct link)
Making a Video Booktalk using Microsoft PhotoStory
From Free Technology for Teachers
Mathematics classroom (from Free Technology for Teachers)
Math TV - Video Mathematics Lessons (blog review) (direct link)
Ghost Blasters, Math Blasters (blog review) (direct link)
Math Factor Podcast (blog review) (direct link)
Math Moves U (blog review) (direct link)
Math A Tube (blog review) (direct link)
The Numeracy Project (blog review) (direct link)
Who Wants Pizza? (blog review) (direct link)
Mathway - Step by Step Math Help (blog review) (direct link)
Mudd Math Fun Facts (blog review) (direct link)
Mathematics in the Movies (blog review) (direct link)
National Marine Sanctuaries Media Library -
is an online vault where a comprehensive collection of select video clips and high-resolution still images from America's underwater treasures are securely stored and available for searchable access and download.
SchoolTube.com - provides students and educators a safe, world class, and FREE media sharing website that is nationally endorsed by premier education associations. SchoolTube is the recognized leader for moderated, internet media sharing for teachers and students. All student created materials on SchoolTube must be approved by registered teachers, follow local school guidelines, and adhere to our high standards.