Content projects/websites/details

The intent of this page is to gather references and source of content that can be used to demo the XO around.

Currently, the constraints are:

• In english (the intended targets are Nigeria and Rwanda
• In spanish (the intended targets are Argentina and Uruguay).
• In portuguese (the intended target is Brazil)
• Open - compatible Creative Commons licenses are: CC-Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc) & CC-Attribution (by)
• Subjects (in descending priorities) literacy, math, health, great images, geography/science/landmarks/art/history

Literacy

Translation Dictionary for Children, based on Logos Dictionary: http://www.logosdictionary.org/pls/dictionary/new_dictionary.kdic.alfabeto2?code_language=EN

Replacement images can be found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/images/2/27/Translation_Dictionary_Images.txt

http://www.fullbooks.com contains many books in full-text (copyright status unknown).

http://www.storyplace.org/ (Charlotte and Mecklenberg countries children's library - free?) (EN + ES)

Math

[http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Math/mathhome.html http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Math/funmath.html] - Some simple math exercises geared toward parents trying to informally teach their youngish children. (US gov)

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/classic/index.asp - an online graphing tool (for kids?). Can be used to make any sort of graph I gather, some of the descriptions at page top may be culturally specific. (US Gov)

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/grabbag/math_teasers/challenge.asp - math problems, kind of fun for kids. For some reason they seemed to be Italy themed. (US Gov)

http://www.nsa.gov/teachers/teach00006.cfm - NSA Collected learning units. Some cultural specificity, but also some good didactic activities. (US Gov)

[1] - Soccer related math activities for kids

Health

The milk matters campaign! (Some decent kids materials, re: calcium, brushing teeth.) [2]

NiH curriculum supplements. Needs to be parsed extensively, there are some amazing interactive activities. Deserves more examination. [3]

Great Images

• http://coleccion.educ.ar/coleccion/CD4/contenidos/recursos/bancos-de-imagenes/imag_educar.html

Actually this is part of a collection of several CD's published by educ.ar that (afaik) holds the copyrights... I tried to determine the actual license but didn't find any.

• http://photobank.unesco.org (not free) - excellent collection of images, probably available in languages besides english as well.

• http://www.nationalgeographic.com/media/photography/ - National geographic photos (not free)

Other

British Public Library - collections (not free) [[4]]

New Zealand Digital Library (not free) [[5]]

http://www.digital-librarian.com/ (not free)

http://www.bne.es/ - National library of Spain, someone want to examine this? (es) (copyrights unknown - the aviso legal page is blank)

exploratorium.com (children's digital museum - not free)

Central American and Mexican Video archive (not free) (es - needs to be checked by a Spanish speaker)[[6]]

http://pbskids.org/ (not free)

eduplace.com international [[7]] (not free)

http://www.free.ed.gov/ - Federal Resources for Educational Excellence. Primarily a portal to free educational resources, often to US Gov't sites (which are free license).

http://www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/hyc.html - The helping your child series, from the US Dept. of Ed. Its good stuff, though directed to adults instead of kids. Still, easy enough to understand, and fun enough to include?

http://teams.lacoe.edu - almost certainly free, electronic classrooms from Los Angeles Country Dept. of Ed. Good stuff. Direct link to the classrooms.<http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/classrooms.html>

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/index_grades35.htm - Scholastic (not free), however we're in talks to receive some of their content.

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/ - Decent site, lots of (primarily lesson plans) with what appear to be an excellent collection of activities. (by NC license).

http://www.educar.org - Great site in Spanish with lesson plans, articles, and forums for teachers. (NC license.)

Geography

http://www.davidrumsey.com/ - Huge collection of maps, nearly 15,000 of them(!!), from numerous historical periods. (NC license - I believe.)

http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/mywonderfulworld/ - Geography (not free)

Science

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/ - Interactive solar system exploration. English and Spanish. Has a low bandwidth version. (US Gov)

http://nsdl.org/browse/?GEM_cat=true - National Science Digital Library collections by topic. (primarily National Science foundation, hard to determine copyright issues).

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cool Science (mostly Biology) (not free) [[8]]

Smithsonian for students (Science and Nature) (not free) [[9]]

Multiple areas

• http://coleccion.educ.ar/coleccion/CD7/index.html

This is a CD titled "Activities with Free Software" (Actividades con Software Libre) with subjects ranging mathematics, language, drawing and transportation/road-sign codes.

• http://www.arrayaneduca.cl/

This is a Chilean publisher with text subjects in math, science, language, and social science (uses CC licensing).