K-12 Multimedia Resources
Discovery Education
(See Ms. Spaulding for user name & password)
Discovery Education provides engaging digital resources to schools and homes with the goal of making educators more effective, increasing student achievement, and connecting classrooms and families to a world of learning. The leader in digital video-based learning, Discovery Education produces and distributes high-quality digital resources in easy-to-use formats in all core-curricular subject areas. Discovery Education is committed to creating scientifically proven, standards-based digital resources for teachers, students, and parents that make a positive impact on student learning.
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freeplaymusic
A collection of free instrumental music files for you to download and use.
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Google's LIFE photo archive
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750's to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
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HippoCampus
HippoCampus offers multimedia lessons and course materials to help you with your instruction, homework and studies. You can browse multimedia lessons or complete courses, and find help with the topics covered in popular textbooks. Multiple resources are available, for free, for the subjects of Algebra, American Government, Biology, Calculus, Environmental Science, Physics, Psychology, Religion, Statistics, and U.S. History.
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The History Channel
A collection of historical speeches and videos
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Internet Archive "Universal Access to Human Knowledge"
A useful multimedia collection, including images, music, audio, and texts. A great site to use for enhancing those PowerPoint presentations!
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Prezi.com
"Create astonishing presentations live and on the web." A very nice (and FREE!) alternative to PowerPoint.
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SchoolTube (Mr. Privett is a moderator for this site. If you have a school-related video clip you would like posted, simply forward the clip to him.)
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TED.com
"Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world."
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WingClips
This site offers thousands of clips from popular movies that are arranged by theme. If you're doing a lesson over "cheating" or "bullying", for example, this site will allow you to download video clips (for free!) that correlate with these topics. Should be a great site for all teachers who teach any type of life skill, and for coaches who are looking for video clips to inspire/motivate.
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Clip Art
Pics4Learning
"Copyright-friendly images for education"