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Moving Online Help for Instructors: Interesting Resources

This lib guide has information for instructors on how to set up your distance classes

Additional Resources

  • How to Add or Edit Text in Photoshop

    • You don’t need to use the full range of Photoshop features to create or edit your images. One of the simplest tasks is adding or editing text to images in Photoshop.

  • Mango Languages-Classroom Software

    • As the nation comes together to help stop the spread of COVID-19 throughout our communities and most vulnerable populations, we're making our Mango Classroom offering freely available to all schools facing closures through the end of the 2019-2020 school year.

  • Free Resources on Project MUSE

    • In response to the challenges created by the global public health crisis of COVID-19, Project MUSE is pleased to support its participating publishers in making scholarly content temporarily available for free on our platform. With many higher education institutions moving into an exclusively online learning environment for the foreseeable future, we hope that easy access to vetted research in the humanities and social sciences, from a variety of distinguished university presses, societies, and related not-for-profit publishers, will help to support teaching, learning, and knowledge discovery for users worldwide

       

  • NASA Media Library

    • ​NASA makes their entire media library publicly accessible and copyright free

  • What Teachers In China Have Learned in the Past Month

    • ​An American whose classroom in Beijing is now online shares what she and her team have learned since the coronavirus hit, just as U.S. teachers make the same shift. 

      • This does focus on K-12, but there are some strategies that might work for college.

  • 50 Youtube Channels for home learning

    • There are plenty of amazing educational videos on Youtube that can be used as part of learning at home (and also inside the classroom). Why not take advantage of these free resources to help your children discover more about a wide range of subjects and topics?

  • JSTOR and Artstor
    • Our partnerships with libraries and publishers help us make content discoverable and freely accessible worldwide
  • Free Resources on Project MUSE

    • In response to the challenges created by the global public health crisis of COVID-19, Project MUSE is pleased to support its participating publishers in making scholarly content temporarily available for free on our platform. With many higher education institutions moving into an exclusively online learning environment for the foreseeable future, we hope that easy access to vetted research in the humanities and social sciences, from a variety of distinguished university presses, societies, and related not-for-profit publishers, will help to support teaching, learning, and knowledge discovery for users worldwide.

  • The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Museum Resources, E-Learning, and Online Collections

    • In the blink of an eye, once-crowded museums sit empty. We’re preparing ourselves for social distancing and potential quarantine. This is the time for museum technology to step up and fill the void. The potential of online collections, virtual tours, and social media campaigns have always been there, but now the opportunity for impact is incalculable.

  • Download Free Coloring Books from 113 Museums

    • One can only color so many floral-trimmed affirmations before one begins to crave something slightly more perverse. An emaciated, naked, anthropomorphized mandrake root, say or…

  • 12 Famous Museums Offer Virtual Tours

    • Experience the best museums from London to Seoul in the comfort of your own home.

  • Center For Puppetry Arts to Livestream performances for free

    • ​Amid the coronavirus outbreak, Atlanta’s Center for Puppetry Arts is closed, but as it notes on its homepage, it’s “digitally open.” That includes livestreaming performances and an expanded lineup of digital learning activities and workshops, which are all available for free online.

  • The Georgia Aquarium Has Live Cams So You Can Go Under The Sea At Home (VIDEO)

    • You may be stuck inside for the next couple of weeks, but that doesn't mean you can't explore the outside world virtually. You definitely don't have to miss out on one of Atlanta's most popular hangouts. Georgia Aquarium has live cameras streaming so you can observe the marine life from the comfort and safety of your own home.