“Sir Ken Robinson is not just an amazing orator — he is the most-viewed speaker on TED.com. His three talks have been viewed an astounding 21.5 million times, making him the sneezing baby panda of the TED ecosystem. from Stephan's Lighthouse

From the British Film Council is a complete collection of World War II films.

From Open Culture, the only known recording of Sigmund Freud.

Steve Jobs: "People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint"

This is a re-blog from Garr Reynolds "Presentation Zen."  As usual, Garr manages to hit the nail directly.  I remember a long time ago having a presenter come into my library with a Power Point.  He was ready to present, but the flash drive did not work for him.  He had to set the Power Point aside.  Later, the faculty told me that he did better with out it.  Power Point is a great tool, but you don't need it every time.

Re-post from Free Technology for Teachers

This post is from one of my favorite blogs:

Nobel Prize Games for Learning About Science & Literature

from Free Technology for Teachers by noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Byrne)

This afternoon I Stumbled Upon an old blog post of mine that I wrote when President Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize. That post got me to take another look at some of the education aspects of the Nobel Prize website.

The Nobel Prize website has an educational games site designed to help students learn about subjects in the areas of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economics. In all there are twenty-nine interactive games for students to play. Each of the science-related games and the economics game is based upon the research of Nobel Prize winners. The literature and peace games are based upon concepts central to the work of Nobel Prize winners in those fields.

FDR Day by Day

Free Technology of Teachers by Richard Byrne is one of the best resources for educators that I have come across.  Each day Byrne highlights a new resource.   FDR: Day by Day is another one of those resources.  This site, originating in the FDR library, combines primary documents of FDR's presidency with a timeline.  One can follow all of the events of the Great Depression and World War II as seen through the eyes of FDR.  Included are a variety of lesson plans.

Tribute to Steve Jobs

Here is Steve Jobs famous commencement speech at Stanford University: