This presentation discusses finding and using free resources from the internet for educational purposes. It outlines several sources for open educational resources, including repositories like Intute and Jorum, as well as institutional sources like MIT OpenCourseware. It emphasizes searching tools like Google Scholar for licensed content and using RSS feeds to stay up to date. Legal issues around copyright and licensing are also addressed. The overall message is that there are many opportunities to find high quality open resources online to enhance teaching while being mindful of copyright and terms of use.

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1. Free Stuff- Finding and Using Resources from the Internet Frances
Bell, Learning Technology Fellow, Faculty of Business, Law and the
Built Environment LT Fellow blog at
http://www.edu.salford.ac.uk/blogs/blbe/ Or look in External on
Staff Channel This work is licenced under the Creative Commons
Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales
License. To view a copy of this licence, visit
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
2. Agenda
o Why? And Who?
o Where?
W Salford resources
S Search engines
S Google Scholar, Books, Images, Videos
G Licensed Stuff
L Repositories
R Intute
I Jorum
J Try HEA Subject Centre
T Institutional
I MIT
M OU Open Learn
O (proprietary mixed) iTunes University
o Summary
3. Alternative view
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/340088/Finding_Stuff_Slide_Sh
ow
4. Why?
o Consumers
C Get free stuff to enhance your course materials
G Direct students to extension resources
o Producers
P Enhances reputation
E Marketing
M Emphasises educational experience over content
o Here is a video clip giving one point of view
o http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Td5_FGqDze8
o You could also watch longer film to which this was a reply.
o Capetown Declaration
http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/
5. Where? – here and anywhere
o Salford resources
S http://students.salford.ac.uk/
o Search engines
S Google Scholar http://scholar.google.co.uk/
Google Books http://books.google.com/
Images – many http://www.flickr.com/commons/
Videos – Google, blip.tv, youtube,
http://www.teachertube.com
Licensed stuff http://search.creativecommons.org/
o Blogs
B Look for relevant blogs with

2. http://blogsearch.google.com/
6. Where? – Repositories
W Intute
I http://www.intute.ac.uk/
http://www.intute.ac.uk/support.html
Also for students
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/
Also repository search
http://www.intute.ac.uk/irs/projectmaterials.ph
p
Jorum
J http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
OER Resources
O http://www.oercommons.org/
Eprints
E http://www.opendoar.org/
http://www.doaj.org/
7. Where? - Institutional
W MIT OpenCourseware
M Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from
MIT.
M http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/i
ndex.htm
OU Open Learn
O Content, tools and other resources
C http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
(proprietary/mixed) iTunes University
( http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu_mobil
elearning/itunesu.html
See also
http://www.edu.salford.ac.uk/blogs/blbe/2008/
07/31/itunes-university/ for examples and
limitations
l Web 2.0 services
W E.g. Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/
8. Using stuff safely
o Look at copyright/licensing arrangements
L Example of use (scroll down) see
http://www.edu.salford.ac.uk/blogs/blbe/2008/10/15/l
earning-technology-resources-and-events/
Check terms of use
C Be sensible, see
B http://www.edu.salford.ac.uk/blogs/blbe/2008/09/13/y
outube-and-teaching-resources/
o When publishing, use Creative Commons Licence see http://
creativecommons.org
9. How to keep up?
o Most will supply RSS feeds
M E.g.
E http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/about/rss/index.htm
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/rss/file.php/stdfeed/2503
/formats/LIB_2_rss.xml
o Get yourself a feed reader
o What is RSS anyway?
W http://www.edu.salford.ac.uk/blogs/blbe/2008/10/07/r
ss-can-help-you-check-blogs-and-other-dynamic-
web-sites-easily/

3. 10 . A n d n o t ju s t c o n t e n t !
o Te a c h e r s s h a r e id e a s a n d p r o b le m s t o o
T h t t p :/ / c lo u d w o r k s .o p e n .a c .u k /
o W a t c h t h is s p a c e a t Sa lfo r d
o M o r e in fo r m a t io n h e r e
M h t t p :/ / w w w .s lid e s h a r e .n e t / g r a in n e / c o n o le - o u ld i-
p r e s e n t a t io n - 6 8 2 3 0 3
11. Su m m a r y
o Fin d g o o d r e s o u r c e s e t s , p e o p le
o K e e p u p t o d a t e w it h c h a n g e s
o B e s a fe
o C o n s id e r b e in g a p r o d u c e r a s w e ll a s a c o n s u m e r
12 . Ein s t e in c o m e s t o Sa lfo r d
13 . A n y q u e s t io n s ?