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Free Educational Resources on the ‘Net - 2007

List compiled and maintained by: Walter F. Rodriguez.

To add your favorite (free) resource, please email me at: waltsimagesATgmail.com (Replace the word “at” with the symbol. Used to prevent spamming.)

 

Programs

OpenOffice – Microsoft Office alternative - http://www.openoffice.org/

GIMP - Powerful image editor, comparable to Photoshop - http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

gCalc - Advanced graphing calculator - http://gcalc.sourceforge.net/

OpenSource Windows - http://www.opensourcewindows.org/

The OpenCD - http://www.theopencd.org/programs

Software for Starving Students - http://softwarefor.org/downloads.html

 

College Courses

MIT - 1700 Available courses - http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm

MIT Courses with Video - http://www.google.com/search?q=site:ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/+%22video+lectures%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&filter=0

UC Berkeley - (“Browse by year created” tool on the right) - http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php

UC Berkeley - Events and speakers - http://webcast.berkeley.edu/events.php

Carnegie-Mellon Open Learning Initiative - http://www.cmu.edu/oli/

Sofia - http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/

Notre Dame - Open Courseware - http://ocw.nd.edu/eduCommons/Courses_listing

Connexions - http://cnx.org/

Johns Hopkins - http://ocw.jhsph.edu/topics.cfm

OpenLearn - http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/index.php

Utah State Open Courseware - http://ocw.usu.edu/front-page/Courses_listing

 

Video Resources, Documentaries, and Lectures

T.E.D. Talks (Technology, Entertainment, Design) - http://www.ted.com/

National Geographic Channel - http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/video/

National Geographic Video - http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/index.html

Documentary Films - http://www.documentary-film.net/

PBS Videos Online - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/programs/index.html

Green Energy TV - http://www.greenenergytv.com/

About’s Video Archive - http://video.about.com/

Important Speakers at MIT - http://mitworld.mit.edu/video_index.php

How Stuff Works - http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=HowStuffWorks

Google Education - http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Google+EngEdu&so=3&start=0

Google Lectures - http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=lecture+genre%3Aeducational&so=3&start=0

 

Educational Media Resources (Books, audio, etc.)

Apple’s Ipod Univeristy - http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu//

Bartleby - http://www.bartleby.com/

Free Online Textbooks - http://www.textbookrevolution.org/

Project Gutenberg - http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

WikiBooks: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

Princeton’s UChannel - http://uc.princeton.edu/main/index.php

LibriVox - http://librivox.org/

Learn OutLoud - http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video#directory

AudioBooksForFree.com - http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/screen_main.asp

Mixed Media - http://www.archive.org/details/education

 

Research

Citeseer - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cs

Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com/

U.C. Berkely’s LabNotes - http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/labnotes/

InfoMine - http://infomine.ucr.edu/

Microsoft LiveSearch Academic - http://search.live.com/results.aspx?scope=academic&q=

Directory of Open Access Journals - http://www.doaj.org/

 

Languages

BBC Languages - http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/

Google Language Tools - http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en

iTunes - Download iTunes and look under “podcasts” and then “Language Courses”. Most titles are free. - http://www.apple.com/itunes/

Babel Fish - Free translation - http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Learn Chinese - http://www.linese.com/model/english/pub/index.jsp

Foreign Language Courses - http://fsi-language-courses.com/

International Television - http://wwitv.com/

 

Web 2.0 Tools

Curriki - http://www.curriki.org

Thinkature - Shared virtual workspace - http://thinkature.com/about/

Google Docs and Spreadsheets – http://docs.google.com/

Ning – Social Community Creator - http://www.ning.com/

Tapped In – A free virtual world in which to hold meetings or classes - http://tappedin.org/

Forbes List of Best Blogs - http://www.forbes.com/2003/04/14/bestblogslander.html

EduBlogs - Educational blogs - http://edublogs.org/

 

Reference

Google - www.google.com

Wikipedia - Online, perpetually updating encyclopedia - http://www.wikipedia.org

Wikipedia Reference Desk - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk

Infinite Thinking Machine - http://www.infinitethinking.org/

Google For Educators - http://www.google.com/educators/tools.html

WikiVersity - http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Browse

Intute - http://www.intute.ac.uk/

Internet Public Library - http://www.ipl.org/

Internet FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions on a variety of subjects- http://www.faqs.org/faqs/

BCC Learning - http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/index.shtml

Open Directory Project - http://www.dmoz.org/

Librarians Internet Index - http://www.lii.org/

Internet Archive - http://www.archive.org/index.php

Geogebra - Online Visual Math Tutorials - http://math247.pbwiki.com/GeoGebra

WebDesign Tutorials - http://w3schools.com/

Mayo Clinic - Health reference - http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/site-map/smindex

~ by waltsimages on September 28, 2007.

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