Watch and Learn: 20 Free Educational Video Sites! « Curriki's Blog Are you a visual learner? Bring content to life with educational videos! Here are twenty easy-to-use sites compiling and producing educational videos for student and teacher use: TeacherTube – an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos Khan Academy – 1400+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, chemistry, biology and finance which have been recorded by Salman Khan. You Tube Edu – videos and channels from college and university partners of YouTube Watch Know – a large directory of educational videos for children. TED – free lectures from extraordinary people on a diverse range of subjects Teachers.tv – Free education video resources, lesson plans, inspiration and ideas to use in classroom Snag Films – compiles hundreds of free documentary films to watch online SchoolTube – a website dedicated to student video and media sharing for entertainment and classroom use. @Curriki
Listen to English - learn English! - The podcast website for people learning English Tell the Highway Lobby About ‘09 Transpo Spending Not to be outdone, the road-building lobbyists at the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) have launched their campaign to influence federal transportation spending priorities over the next year, including the 2009 TEA package. Last week, while encouraging team Obama to incorporate highway construction into its economic stimulus plan, AASHTO rolled out IToldThePresident.org, a web site that invites the public to submit written and video comments on what the president-elect and Congress "need to know to take action to improve transportation." Courtesy of trucking trade pub FleetOwner, here's what AASHTO has in mind: At the heart of the group’s effort is a call for $545 billion worth of transportation infrastructure investment from 2010 through 2015 for highways ($375 billion), transit ($93 billion), freight movement ($42 billion, largely from sources outside the Highway Trust Fund), and intercity passenger rail ($35 billion).
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Wanted - a new patron saint for England. St George killing the dragon – painting by Paolo Uccello c. 1470. In Christian tradition, a “saint” means someone whom the Church recognises as having led a particularly good and holy life. There are lots of Christian saints. The Roman Catholic church recognises more than 10,000 of them. You can’t be recognised as a saint while you are alive. Some Christian saints are associated with particular countries, or particular occupations or particular sorts of people. The patron saint of England is St George. The traditional story of St George says that he was a soldier in the Roman army at the beginning of the fourth century. At this point, I must tell you, gentle listeners, that I think that there are big problems about having St George as patron saint of England. 1. 2. 3. 4. St Wulfstan, from a stained glass window in the parish church in Long Itchington. So I would like to suggest that England should have a new patron saint, and as it happens I know exactly the right saint for the job. 1.