Essential Employability Skills
Open Source Curriculum
Podcasting in Education
Podcasting Directories
Essential Employability Skills
List of Essential Employability Skills
Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/general/college/progstan/essential.html
Watch for the Essential Employability Skills Lifesaver. This document will be posted soon on the Professor's Resource Web Site.
Open Source Curriculum Resources
How the open source movement has changed education: 10 Success Stories.Online Education Database. (Published March 1, 2007) http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-
changed-education-10-success-stories
Curriki
The newest online environment for educators interested in using or creating open source curriculum.
Curriki.org
Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia
www.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia in the Classroom
This blog entry provides a good summary of the arguments that educators are making for and against the use of wikipedia in the classroom.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2006/07/
wikipedia_in_the_classroom_con.html
Connexions
A collaborative environment for developing and sharing modularized learning content.
http://cnx.org/
The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC)
A repository of online courses for high school and higher education.
http://montereyinstitute.org/nroc/nroc.html
MIT Open Courseware
Provides a substantial collection of open source course resources that are free for anyone to use.
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
The Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/index.php
The Internet Archive is an online library of web sites and digital artifacts relating to history and culture.
Podcasting in Education
Education World Techtorial: “What is a Podcast”, http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/techtorial/techtorial091b.shtml . An easy-to-read introduction to podcasting.
Education World: Sites to See: Podcasting. A great index to web sites that provide information and resources related to podcasting. http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/sites/sites074.shtml
EASI Podcast Help Page
EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information) has a great summary of what podcasting is and how to get started.
http://easi.cc/podcasts
The Education Podcast Network
A directory of educational podcast programming with listings for various topics. http://epnweb.org/
A soundtrack for study.http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,,1550197,00.html
Guardian Unlimited. (August 17, 2005).
Can Podcasting Move from Pop Culture To a Killer Application? About.com. http://podcasting.about.com/od/podcastingineducation/a/podinedkillapp.htm (Retrieved March 8, 2007).
Teaching with Podcasting Learning Team Report
The University of Illinois podcasting team use podcasts within their report to describe podcasting.
http://ion-a.online.uillinois.edu/resources/pointersclickers/
2006_05/Mills.pdf
Posting Class Notes vs Class Transcripts Online
A discussion on Jeffrey Daniel Frey's Blog about podcasting and accessibility. Also includes information about podcasting in education.
http://jdfrey.wordpress.com/tag/podcast-accessibility/
Podcast Directories
Podcast.net. A directory of existing podcasts categorized by topic.
Podcast.net
Syndic8
A directory of podcasts - including international
www.syndic8.com
BBC Radio
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/waystolisten/podcasts
The BBC provides an interesting selection of podcasts by genre. Subject include Arts and Drama, Comedy and Quizzes, History, and News and Current Affairs.
iTunes Podcast Directory
If you have an i-pod, use the "Subscribe Now" search box on the bottom left side of the page to find and subscribe to podcasts.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcasts.html
