Its a small, small, small World

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Its a small, small, small World

• Free global ed-related websites to help your
  students be successful in college and in life
• Adam Brennan, Tulsa Community College
• October 2 and 3, 2008
• TCC- SE Campus

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Resources to cover

• Your favorites? (news, education sites, free
  software, etc)
• Adams favorites
• Babelfish
• Gutenberg
• My personal favorites
• BBC News- In Pictures
• Worldcat
• Library of Congress and Flickr
• British Library Turning the Pages
• Skype
• Social bookmarking- Delicious
• Google Earth and Google Maps- saved maps
• Free software/online storage
• Cool Points

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Babel Fish

• translate a block of text
• French, German, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, etc
• babelfish.yahoo.com

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Project Gutenberg- free ebooks

• Available ebooks are in public domain, in many
  different languages (via advanced search)
• 25,000 ebooks available free, mainly thanks to
  volunteers
• 88,000 downloads on October 1, 2008
• gutenberg.org

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BBC News- In Pictures

• Daily In Pictures
• Paul Newman, topics such as Damascus car bombing,
  Mexicos bloody 1968, etc
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/default.stm

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WorldCat

• 1.2 billion items in over 10,000 libraries
  worldwide (books, articles, cds, dvds, etc)
• Real strength is displaying results according to
  proximity to your zip code
• You can ask your library to interlibrary loan
  items that you find
• worldcat.org

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Library of Congress and Flickr

• LOC teamed up with Flickr
• Two albums online with over 4,000 photos from
  1910s-1940s
• LOC has 12.5 million photos
• http//www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

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British Library- Turning the Pages

• Many historical and religious texts (high quality
  scans, not pdfs!)
• Quran, Sketches by Leonardo, Motzarts Musical
  Diary, the original Alices Adventures
  Underground, etc
• http//www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html

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• Skype
• Free online chat and audio/video calls
• skype.com
• Social bookmarking
• Share your favorite websites, access them on any
  computer, find out how many other people have
  added them, assign each website keywords (tags)
• delicious.com

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Google Earth and Google Maps

• 3-D views, sunrise function, navigate
• earth.google.com
• Save maps, etc
• maps.google.com

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Free software/online storage

• ispringsolutions.com (turn ppt into flash)
• adrive.com (50 gb free storage!!!)
• audacity.sourceforge.net (free software to record
  audio mp3 files)

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Cool Points

• moodstream.gettyimages.com- combines images,
  video, and music depending on the settings you
  indicate real power and usefulness comes in
  creating moodboards
• pandora.com- Music Genome Project create free
  online radio stations based on artists or types
  of music
• worldle.net- turn text into art

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• Knowledge is Power- Get Some
• Nathan Bomer
• TCC Learning Resources Center Supervisor
• 918-595-7568
• nbomer_at_tulsacc.edu

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Free Global Education Websites

• Babelfish-translating text http//babelfish.yahoo.
  com/
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• Gutenberg- 25,000 free ebooks http//www.gutenberg
  .org
•  
• BBC News In Pictures-daily and topical
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/default.stm
  
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• Worldcat- 1.2 billion items in over 10,000
  libraries worldwide (books, cds, etc)
  http//www.worldcat.org/
•  
• Library of Congress and Flickr- two albums of
  4,000 photos from 1910s -1940s
  www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

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Free Global Education Websites

• British Library Turning the Pages- high quality
  scans of historical and religious texts (not
  pdfs!)
• www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
• Skype- free online chat and audio/video calls
  http//www.skype.com
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• Social bookmarking on Delicious-save favorite
  websites, share, assign keywords/tags
  http//www.delicious.com
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• Google Earth- 3-D views, sunrise function,
  navigate
• http//earth.google.com/

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Free Global Education Websites

• Free software/online storage
• http//www.ispringsolutions.com/ (turn ppt into
  flash)
• http//www.adrive.com/ (50 gb free storage!!!)
• http//audacity.sourceforge.net/ (free software
  to record audio mp3 files)
• http//www.ning.com/ (create a social networking
  site)
• http//www.airset.com (your web computer)
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• Cool Points
• http//moodstream.gettyimages.com/
• http//pandora.com/
• http//www.wordle.net/