A visual exploratorium for free or open web offerings for teachers wanting to resource, enliven or expand their teaching practice or curriculum content content.

1. Web based open or free educational and media resources to add creativity, innovation and content to your teaching practice Exploratorium

2. Explore This presentation is built with the goal of expanding awareness, knowledge and creativity with web based resources. This presentation is not meant to be narrow in scope. Indeed, it is meant to be a broad and open. It is an Exploratorium.

3. Self-Direct The key ingredients from a learning standpoint are those we would encourage in our students learning online or at a distance: Self directedness Self motivation range of learning styles 365/7/24 access and pacing creativity

4. Imagine The web resources were chosen with care to inspire rather than frustrate. Enlighten rather than bore. A degree in instructional technology is not required (-: The patience to explore with an open mind and imagination is a best practice, and with that goal in mind the following slideshow and content is offered...

5. Find music to sharehttp://www.jamendo.com/en/

6. Find media to use http://spinxpress.com/

7. Create word cloudswww.wordle.net

8. Colour with pictureshttp://flickr.com/creativecommons

9. Inspire with videowww.edutube.org Click -> http://edutube.org/video/dalton-sherman-do-you-believe-me

10. Think about big ideaswww.ted.com Click-> http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

11. Share your learning with the worldhttp://edublogs.org/

12. 50 virtual k12 schools onlinewww.learnnowbc.com

13. Schools that innovate onlinewww.flvs.net

14. Open High School of Utah http://openhighschool.org/

15. Search Google for open contenthttp://search.creativecommons.org/

16. Creative Commonswww.creativecommons.org

17. Content made to sharewww.connexions.org

18. Big Open Course Sharinghttp://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

19. Global Open Learninghttp://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

20. Globalize your coursehttp://www.oercommons.org/

21. Find content and connect onlinewww.folksemantic.com

22. Learn in real time through blogshttp://opencontent.org/blog/

23. Discover global OERs in a Wikihttp://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

24. Collaboration in learning Wikihttp://wikieducator.org/Main_Page

25. And the future unfolds....http://www2.athabascau.ca/aboutau/news/news_item.php?id=450