Taylor Sehpin

ED638

Dr. Rivera

Effective Literacy Website #2

http://www.openculture.com/free_k-12_educational_resources

OPEN CULTURE— The best FREE cultural and educational media on the web.

200 Free Kids Educational Resources: Video Lessons, Apps, Books, Websites & More  



This site has a list of free educational resources for K-12 students.  It also gives resources for the parents and teachers. The following are some of the examples of the resources that are found, free video lessons/tutorials; free mobile apps; free audiobooks, ebooks and textbooks; quality YouTube channels; free foreign language lessons; test prep materials; and free web resources in academic subjects like literature, history, science and computing. Under each of the above, you can find many collections of resources and you can even download them. It is easy ti navigate from one topic to another.

In addition to the above applications, open culture website has other things that make it more interesting and useful.  They are as follow;

Calibre: Used for downloangd free e-book software

CK-12: This non-profit provides "open textbooks" for K-12 students all over the world.

ePubBud:  Makes available free children's books for the the iPad, Nook, Kindle and other ereaders.

International Children's Digital Library: Provides free access to high-quality children's books from around the world in different languages

Librivox: Librivox provides free audio books from the public domain.

Project Gutenberg: The mother of all ebook sites hosts 40000 free ebooks, and makes them accessible for Kindle, Android, iPad, and iPhone.

The Harvard Classics: Provides a 51-volume series, now known as The Harvard Classics, and they're available free online. Ideal for the older student.

Physics Comic Books – Physics Central, provides series of comic books designed to get kids excited about physics. Among other comics, you can can read  for free online.

To conclude this Open Culture has many different useful things on it that will surely help students and teachers in school.