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Try Wikimedia Commons for millions of free files

Wikimedia Commons permits the use of over 10 million media files. This media file (images, sounds, and video clips) repository  allows accessibility to public domain and freely-licensed educational media content. Great for budget challenged teachers across the globe. Locate media by topic, location, type, author, license and by source.

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Large source of educational videos from MIT

The MIT Video website offers videos produced by the Institute.  In addition to core learning videos included are feature and editorial videos, event recordings, academic content and more. This resource may be a source for developing your knowledge is specialized areas.  Consider adding it to your personal learning network.  If you have advanced level courses, …

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The History of April Fools’ Day video

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BBC Active

  In cooperation with Pearson, BBC active provides a single gateway to the myriad of BBC online educational resources.  

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Free, fully online literacy courses

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This site is a must for consideration of ESL or S(Spanish)SL instructors or students who wish to have an independent learning resource.  U.S.A. Learns offers full virtual courses that can be tailored by the student. There are three levels offered.  Teachers should look into the course offerings before taking their students to this site.  It …

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Free Teacher Technology Course Launches today!

An updated version of Digital Materials Production Tools is now hosted on Freemoodle.org and is available to anyone who wishes to learn to use free and web-based tools to develop learning opportunities for their students.   This course introduces instructors to use simple tools and techniques used by their educational technology savvy peers to produce …

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Create screencasts easily with ScreenCastle

Use Screen Castle to quickly create simulations for your teaching purposes. Whether online or in the classroom, simulations allow a teacher to provide specific instructions while their hands are free to guide the presentation.  Try a quick step-by-step activity to try it out.

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Free, new Moodle instructional videos

If you are developing courses in Moodle or want to facilitate a course, many of these videos will be very useful.  All of the referenced videos are of the 2.0+ flavor so check with your Moodle administrator to ensure that they are appropriate.

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How To and Help videos to speed up your just-in-time learning

All of us in the educational development area or teachers who require fast tips on how to do materials development tasks are now turning to online video sources for our quick fix.  I have listed eight of the first places I search for assistance. Unfortunately, I do use Lynda.com for more intricate solutions but that …

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KeepVid is keepin on!

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While preparing a presentation this weekend, I reminded some of my colleagues about the fast and efficient tool, KeepVid,  that facilitates safely downloading YouTube or Teacher Tube content.  (Kindly keep your borrowing legal) Steps to converting online video to  portable video: 1. Copy the web address (URL) of the video           …

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