Instructional Design and Distance Education Links
Video on the Web
Other Interesting Links
Instructional Design / Distance Education Links (Top
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MERLOT: is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.
The Sloan Consortium: The purpose of the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) is to help learning organizations continually improve quality, scale, and breadth according to their own distinctive missions, so that education will become a part of everyday life, accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, in a wide variety of disciplines.
MIT's OpenCourseWare: A free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT's mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true to MIT's values of excellence, innovation, and leadership.
Learning Times: LearningTimes is an open community for education-minded people. Members have free access to a wide range of opportunities to interact with peers from across the globe -- live online, asynchronously and face-to-face
League for Innovation The League is an international organization dedicated to catalyzing the community college movement.
Kairos is a refereed online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy.
George Lucas Educational Foundation: Are WE ready for the K-12 students?
Copyright 101 for Educators: Winter 2003
Journal of Educations Online: The Journal of Educators Online (JEO) is an online, double-blind, refereed journal by and for instructors, administrators, policy-makers, staff, students, and those interested in the development, delivery, and management of online courses in the Arts, Business, Education, Engineering, Medicine, and Sciences.
http://www.umuc.edu/ade/: A Resource for Faculty in Online Teaching by University of Maryland University College
Video on the Web (Top
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Teacher TV
Thousands of education programs on TV and online
Reuters Latest Financial News - Full News Coverage
A Global information company dealing in Financial services, media and corporate markets. To access the video page: Go to the Reuters site and select "Video from the menu on the left.
Google Video
Google Video offers viewers a way to search and see material from archived TV programs, educational videos, personal productions and more. In order to view the video you selected, you must first install the Google Video Viewer.
Frontline on PBS
Selected FRONTLINE programs can be watched here in full - RealPlayer and Windows Media formats.
Blinkx TV
Blinkx TV allows you to search the web for video and audio clips.
NerdTV PBS
NerdTV is a new weekly online TV show from PBS.org technology columnist Robert X. Cringely. It is one-hour interview show with a single guest from the world of technology. Guests like Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy or Apple computer inventor Steve Wozniak are household names if your household is nerdy enough, but as historical figures and geniuses in their own right, they have plenty to say to ALL of us.
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an ‘Internet library,’ with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.
wwiTV.com
This is an independent guide to streaming media available on the web. They do not provide streaming content ourselves. This site is designed to enable users of personal computers and other consumer electronic devices to easily find and access media content over the Internet.
www.FeedRoom.com
The Feed Room provides internet video access to several companies. To access the video provided by this company, select any of the Media Solutions or Corporate Solutions links on this page.
Yahoo! Search - Video Search
Just like searching for WebPages, Yahoo search lets you search the web for material from archived TV programs, educational videos, personal productions and more. (Example: type the word "vegetarian" in the search box to find video on this subject)
BBC-TV
You can select various clips from BBC television
Classroom radio discussions
A television and radio series that investigates the relationships between education and technology.
www.vegtv.com (hehe vegetarian propaganda)
VEG TV offers television shows and video clips with programming that is compelling, entertaining and informative… tasty recipes, interviews with prominent medical and nutrition professionals, great new restaurants, and celebrities who share why they chose to live a healthy lifestyle.
PC World Magazine Videos
Broadband programming about technology--from how-to's to reviews
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Word 2003 to Word 2007 command reference guide: Wondering where your favorite Word 2003 commands are located in the new Word 2007 interface? Or just want to explore the rich, new design with a little guidance? (This site takes a few seconds to load)
Tech Talk: More fun than an operating manual, "Tech Talk" is a TV show designed for those who want to learn more about the digital technology we encounter in our everyday lives. It is 30 minutes long and is developed and produced by the University of Minnesota. You can visit the "Episode Archive" section and watch it on your computer.
How Stuff Works: This site explains in simple terms how "stuff" (i.e. coin machines, flash memory, shock treatment, etc. ) work.
Time and Date: Want to know what time it is in another state or Country? How about a countdown to the end of the year or a date of your choice? This site offers that and more.
Terra Server: The TerraServer-USA Web site is one of the world's largest online databases, providing free public access to a vast data store of maps and aerial photographs of the United States. Here is a picture of Columbia State Community College in 1998.
Intellicast: View looped images of current weather conditions.
Columbia Daily Herald: The Daily Herald, located in Columbia, TN, is published Sunday through Friday.
PCWorld Magazine One of the BEST magazines for computer news, reviews, downloads (free and shareware), and How-to's. (I subscribe to the paper magazine to read in the car on trips)