Open Content Website Listing
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Open Content
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Poll Everywhere |
Live Audience Polling Ask your audience a question They answer using SMS text messages, Twitter, or the web See real-time results |
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Library of Congress |
Access to thousands of historical documents and images. Hundreds of lesson plans available for teachers to use. |
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Creative Commons |
Access to research, education, and cultural materials |
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Open Courseware Consortium |
Openly licensed course materials from hundreds of universities worldwide |
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MIT Open Courseware |
Openly licensed course materials from more than 1,800 MIT courses |
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Open Learn |
Open educational resources from The Open University |
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Merlot |
Search Merlot’s collection of peer reviewed learning materials and pedagogy for content to include in your courses. |
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OER Commons |
Using OER Commons, you can share what you know, browse for what others know, and edit or review content from around the world. |
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Quizlet |
Quizlet is an easy to use application which allows you to produce not only interactive flash cards, but also automatically generates a whole raft of activities for each set of words you enter. |
Anthropology |
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dmoz: open directory project |
http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropology/ |
This website is edited and maintained by volunteer editors and it contains a directory of information available on the Web. |
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mar: Museum Anthropology Review |
This is an open access journal that publishes articles, reviews, essays, obituaries, and other content. |
Criminal Justice |
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The United States Department of Justice |
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The Department of Justice web site offers a variety of resources including highlights of historical cases, photographs, press releases, and videos. |
National Criminal Justice Reference Service |
From the website, it states that NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. |
Education |
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Open Michigan |
Materials for an Elementary Reading Instruction Course given at the University of Michigan including a syllabus, reading list, and several PowerPoint lectures are available for incorporation into your course. |
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Open Education Resources |
Contains free-to-use content such as lectures, PowerPoint presentations, and multimedia items to include in your courses. |
Emergency Management and Planning |
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Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency |
http://www.pema.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/pema_home/4463 |
This web site has links that include Incident reports, homeland security information, county emergency management websites, alerts and advisories, news reports, and general information. |
Emergency Management Institute |
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Training materials and web-based courses are linked on this web page for self-paced learning. Courses may include video content along with information for practice purposes. |
Fire Science |
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Firefighters Online |
Register for free participation in message forums, and join discussions on various topics relating to Fire Science |
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Fire Science on iTunes U |
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/fire-science-technology-program/id262682810 |
Links to various podcasts on Fire Science topics. |
Geography |
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Connexions |
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Find multiple resources to include in your classroom activities.
This web site will provide a Geography lesson to incorporate into your classroom using ePals. |
History |
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Smithsonian Learning Resources |
http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/resources/education.asp |
Use this resource for learning materials including an interactive Who Am I ? mystery game. |
Military History: Americans at War |
http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/exhibition/flash.html |
This is an interactive page with information about historical conflicts. |
White House Historical Association |
Located on this page are facts and trivia, history timelines, and new media and lectures. From this page, you can take a tour of the art located and displayed in the White House. |
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Gettysburg Address |
Gettysburg Address read by Actor Liam Neeson
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Human Services |
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Connexions |
Part IV — Aging is a module you can use for your course as supplemental materials to the lessons you teach. |
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Case Management |
http://cnx.org/content/m12682/latest/
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This is a module that will offer directions for proper treatment and strategies for case managers |
Political Science |
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Otter |
http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/oer/oers/politics-and-international-relations |
This web site offers course packs for materials to be included into your course. |
Psychology |
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AmoebaWeb |
Maintained by a Professor of Psychology, this web site provides over 2000 links to Psychological content. |
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Psychology Research Guide |
http://ubishops.ca.libguides.com/content.php?pid=45210&sid=334246 |
This web page contains links to 8 Psychology Journals you can access free of charge. |
The Psychology Files |
Several podcasts related to Psychology. |
Sociology |
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Open University |
This is an interview with a Social Worker . |
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temoa: Open Educational Resources Portal |
http://www.temoa.info/taxonomy/term/30961
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Educational resources for teaching various topics within the Sociology Discipline including lecture webinars and podcasts. |
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Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image |
The University of Pennsylvania has made over 12,000 images from various collections of rare books, manuscripts, papyri, photographs and sheet music available through their SCETI site. |
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Dmoz: open directory project |
This is a human-edited directory of the Web, constructed and maintained by volunteer editors. |
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YouTube EDU |
This is a specific channel for Educational Content on YouTube. You can search this web site for video clips to include in your class content. |
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Academic Earth |
This is another searchable site for educational videos you can include in your course content. |