Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free. It’s all enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it, and give you access to this high quality content whenever and wherever you want it. Subscribing to their RSS Feed promises to send amazing literary and cultural performances and resources to your mailbox on a daily basis.
For teachers, Open Culture offers a Free K-12 Education page with grade level and content area resources in audio books, ebooks, videos, and interviews. They have classic films, foreign language resources, art and visual culture resources, and the list goes on.
Open Culture has it's own YouTube Channel where you can access all of ther videos (many, many videos).
Mind/Shift a recent post on Mind/Shift focuses on "Apps That Rise to the Top: Tested and Approved by Teachers".
Edudemic connects teachers, administrators and students with resources, articles, tutorials, "Best of Guides", and digital tools, all within the context of education.
Edudemic Teacher Guides to Technology and Learning include guides to Twitter, Flipped Classrooms, Badges, Student Safety, and much more. Each guide offers tips, ways to use the tool or concept in the classroom, and there is usually a cool infographic involved for the visual learner.
The Best EdTech page lists several devices to choose from, including laptops and tablets. There are also lists of Apps for both iPads and Android devices.
Edudemic also has a site for students and a site for teachers, each highlighting issues specific to their respective groups. There is a lot here that is worth looking into and more here than can be listed in this box.
Twitter's mission is... "To give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers".
From the Twitter FAQ page: Twitter is an information network made up of 140-character messages called Tweets. It's an easy way to discover the latest news related to subjects you care about. Messages from users you choose to follow will show up on your home page for you to read. It’s like being delivered a newspaper whose headlines you’ll always find interesting – you can discover news as it’s happening, learn more about topics that are important to you, and get the inside scoop in real time.
Academically, students or faculty can set up Twitter feeds on topics of study/interest and have students follow and post to the Twitter feed, using it as an organizational, sharing and curation tool.