Web resources for teachers

Going to try a new format. Too much fun (and potentially relevant) stuff; if it isn't shared quick it could be lost, so minimal descriptions

Video of scholarly and education merit to provoke discussion (or digression):

1. Anthropology: KSU's web celeb anthropologist Michael Wesch
   
2. Biology - crab rides a jellyfish; Learning about memory and aging on YouTube
3. Business: Yale professor explains financial crisis in 10 minutes
   
4. Chemistry;
5. Physics (including a boomarang in zero gravity);
6. Art: THe 50 greatest art videos on YouTube;
7. Collections: NYTimes top 5 online video lectures - and Open Cultures top 75 online educational videos - part of their "signs of intelligent life on youtube collection". Free Engineering and SCience courses from Stanford online; source to watch complete documentary films for free;
8. Pedagogy: Father Guido Sarducci breaks it down (learning and retention- Remember Saturday Night Live in the late 70's? funny because it's true)

See Also

• Education and technology: research shows people are more likely to lie in email;
  
• Brain Science: how the mind works - Brain Rules reviewed; What Magic teaches us about neural processing (2 articles), what it feels like to have a stroke (neuroanatomy part of TEDS talks - best stuff on YouTube); 2008 election and neuroscience
  
• Language: argument that English is a user-defined and user-modified technology; Chinglish recognized as full-fleged dialect (anyone have info on Spanglish?); Stanford's online writing classes; podcasts can teach you almost any language
  
• FREE AUDIOBOOKS: The Gutenberg project - a huge mass of audio books on line - I only bookmark human read titles, see also the growing collection by Literal Systems; 1984 by Orwell:
• How to (DIY's): how to make garden lights out of LED lights and mason jars; How to make online video's without getting sued (copyright info).
• Pedagogy and books to consider: review of book How Children Fail by John Holt;
• History: animated video of Howard Zinn's History of the US Empire
  
• Election related: a non-partisan project helps community organizers to find neighbors who think they are registered but actually aren't; 2008 election and neuroscience
  
• Of arcane scholarly interest: info and links to photos by famed Harvard Ethnobotanist (combined ethnography and botany);

Cool academic resources: Media rich

More educators are incorporating wikis and blogs into their classes. Web spaces are great places to share syllabi, lesson plans, and handouts. Research shows students expect it. Furthermore, they have a great potential “fun factor.” These formats allow for embedding video, pictures, links, audio and more. Web-enhancements, whether through LMS (like Angel) or through free Web 2.0 tools, efficiently share supplemental, and/or media rich material.

Here’s a list of both highly academic and fun resources. Check them out and share with students.

• PsychCentral has 10 great free videos on the teen brain, the paradox of choice, eating disorders and more.
• The Guardian: UK lists the 50 Greatest Arts Videos of all Time (on Youtube that is)
  
• In case you haven’t’ seen Randy Pausch’s inspirational and relevant “last lecture,” it’s deeply moving and amazingly upbeat.
• For history buffs, Howard Zinn’s Peoples history of the United States – animated video. 8 ½ min long.
• Oculture’s 70 signs of intelligent life on YouTube a collection of first rate videos.
  
• For political science/ journalism applications, Seymour Hersh (Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist) on covert operations in Iran.
• for biology/ botany - a time lapse video of fungi and slim molds (short and oddly compelling)