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Tuesday, January 6, 2015
The Top 10 New Year's Resolutions for Teachers
It was the name of this blog, "The Pensive Sloth," that first caught my attention. A recent post here was "The Top 10 New Year's Resolutions for Teachers." I could relate to a few!
Link: http://thepensivesloth.com/2014/12/27/top-10-teacher-new-years-resolutions/
Fill Your New Device with FREE Sources
Open Culture: www.openculture.com on 25 Dec 2014 11:45 AM PST:
"Santa left a new Kindle, iPad, or other media player under your tree! He did his job. Now we’ll do ours. We’ll tell you how to fill those devices with free intelligent media — great books, movies, courses, and all of the rest. And if you didn’t get a new gadget, fear not. You can access all of these materials on the good old fashioned computer."
The entries below are the site's suggestions and descriptions:
Free Audio Books
"What better way to spend your free time than listening to some of the greatest books ever written? This page contains a vast number of free audio books, — 630 works in total — including texts by Arthur Conan Doyle, James Joyce, Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe, George Orwell and more recent writers — Italo Calvino, Vladimir Nabokov, Raymond Carver, etc. You can download these classic books straight to your gadgets, then listen as you go."
Free eBooks
" You have always wanted to read the great works. And now is your chance. When you dive into our Free eBooks collection you will find 700 great works by some classic writers (Dickens, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare and Tolstoy) and contemporary writers (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, and Kurt Vonnegut). The collection also gives you access to the 51-volume Harvard Classics."
Link: Link: http://www.openculture.com/free_ebooks
Free Movies
" With a click of a mouse, or a tap of your touch screen, you will have access to 700 great movies. The collection hosts many classics, westerns, indies, documentaries, silent films and film noir favorites. It features work by some of our great directors (Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick, Jean-Luc Godard and David Lynch) and performances by cinema legends: John Wayne, Jack Nicholson, Audrey Hepburn, Charlie Chaplin, and beyond. On this one page, you will find thousands of hours of cinema bliss."
Free Language Lessons
"Perhaps learning a new language is high on your list of New Year’s resolutions. Well, here is a great way to do it. Take your pick of 46 languages, including Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin, Russian, Dutch, Yiddish, Esperanto and more! These lessons are all free and ready to download."
Free Textbooks
" And one last item for the lifelong learners among you. We have scoured the web and pulled together a list of 200 free textbooks. It’s a great resource particularly if you’re looking to learn math, computer science or physics on your own."