Annenberg Media

Offers free educational videos that may be viewed on your computer in the subjects of arts, foreign language, language arts and literature, mathematics, science and social studies and history. http://www.learner.org/index.html

TeacherTube

Youtube for teachers http://www.teachertube.com/

Teachers’ Domain

Teachers’ Domain is an online library of more than 1,000 free media resources from the best in public television including programs such as NOVA, Frontline, Design Squad, American Experience. The site also contains lesson plans and student-oriented activities. http://www.teachersdomain.org/

Online Resources for Books and Audiobooks

Many materials books etc…exist for free use (public domain)

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. This site contains both ebooks and audiobooks.

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Google Books is a good source of both public domain books and magazines but also excerpts for nonpublic domain material. Google Books is also very user friendly.

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en

LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Its goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. http://librivox.org/

The Baldwin Online Children’s Literature Project seeks to make available online a comprehensive collection of resources for parents and teachers of children. Their focus, initially, is on literature for children that is in the public domain in the United States. This is a user friendly site.

http://www.mainlesson.com/main/displayarticle.php?article=feature

International Children’s Digital Library is building a library of children’s books from around the world. This is also a user friendly site. http://en.childrenslibrary.org/