Spring 2005

Featured Resources

Sources of Free Media Content

Royalty Free Photos
http://www.morguefile.com/archive/
http://openphoto.net/

Clip Art
www.barrysclipart.com/

Creative Commons Web Site
Directory of links to free sources of images, audio, video, and text content.
http://creativecommons.org/find/

Learning Objects
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources For Online Teaching)
http://www.merlot.com

Educational Technology Resources

Educause
http://www.educause.edu/
"EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology." They provide a wealth of insightful articles relating to educational technology.

Stephen Downes Online Learning Daily Newsletter
http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm
Stephen Downes is one of Canada's leading experts in Online Learning. A former Senior Researcher with the National Research Council, he currently works for the Institute for Information Technology's e-Learning Research Group.

You can read his daily newsletter on the web. Or, you can subscribe to his mailing list for free at http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/subscribe.cgi

BBmatters
http://www.bbmatters.net/bb_matters_april/bb_matters.htm
A UK Blackboard site dealing with the use of Blackboard in higher education. For example: "Supporting Part-time Students Using the Communication Tools in Blackboard - Discussion Boards and Email".

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