Just posting a few links that lead to much more:
One is Illume Learning which I first
came across in an email. This site makes
me think of open educational resources and the efforts to make those more
widely available. Illume Learning is the result of a
collaboration between founders
Peter Quandt and Justin Irizarry. On the
site, one can search for
key terms in a wide variety of sources (books, periodicals, even syllabi and
lectures or Khan Academy). I have shown
this to other librarians and we want to spend more time investigating this
currently free source.
My first
impressions center on the amount of material that is available – almost too
much to efficiently search. The filters (e.g., choose a newspaper name or date
range) and advanced searching (add a second term) appear to only work sometimes
or in certain patterns but not in others. Although the site may still
be under development, it has some exciting potential. This video will give you
an idea of the range of sources:
In the meantime, I often turn to
the Libguides Community to
find ideas of links related to new projects and topics. The search function could be improved there,
too, by allowing for a search of multiple terms and adding K-8 and 9-12 subcategories.
Increasingly, it seems that only version1 Libguides are available and that
should definitely be addressed.
Saving what is arguably the best for last, here is a link to another favorite, the Journalist’s Resource, a project
of the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center and the Carnegie-Knight Initiative,
which recently posted about “Reporting with Web and Social Media Data.” Last Fall, they also offered a timely pre-election review of “Polling Fundamentals and Concepts.” Our
journalism teachers and student researchers turn to this well-regarded site on
a regular basis.
