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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
"The Internet Archive" -- A Wealth of Resources for Teachers
You can tell your students what western science surmised about the weather in the 1800's... or you could actually show your students what western science surmised about the weather back then. Thanks to the work of a non-profit entity called The Internet Archive , hundreds of thousands of books, audio files, videos, still images, and software packages that are in the public domain are now indexed and accessible via the Web. Your students can literally page through Elias Loomis' 1894 Treatise on Meteorology. Could your students studying World War II better understand U.S. government propaganda efforts from that time if they viewed Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" films? You can find them at The Internet Archive. Are you looking for sources of authentic foreign language films -- other than cinematic films -- to broaden your students' vocabulary exposure? You can find them at The Internet Archive.
You might have heard that Google has embarked on an ambitious project to digitize thousands of books, such that their contents could be searched via the Web. That projects faces a major legal challenge for alleged copyright infringement, as a group of authors and publishers alleges that Google's decision to digitize books without their permission violates their copyrights. (Google responds that its project is protected by the fair use provisions of U.S. copyright law.)
At the same time, The Internet Archive, funded in part by the Open Content Alliance, has also embarked on an effort to digitize and index books and other materials (including ephemeral content such as websites). The Internet Archive, however, only includes materials that are in the public domain -- that is, materials for which the author or publisher has explicitly granted permission for public use. Teachers, therefore, are free to incorporate the holdings of the Internet Archive in instructional materials and lesson plans; and many of the archive's holdings are available in both streaming formats and files that can be downloaded.
You might have heard that Google has embarked on an ambitious project to digitize thousands of books, such that their contents could be searched via the Web. That projects faces a major legal challenge for alleged copyright infringement, as a group of authors and publishers alleges that Google's decision to digitize books without their permission violates their copyrights. (Google responds that its project is protected by the fair use provisions of U.S. copyright law.)
At the same time, The Internet Archive, funded in part by the Open Content Alliance, has also embarked on an effort to digitize and index books and other materials (including ephemeral content such as websites). The Internet Archive, however, only includes materials that are in the public domain -- that is, materials for which the author or publisher has explicitly granted permission for public use. Teachers, therefore, are free to incorporate the holdings of the Internet Archive in instructional materials and lesson plans; and many of the archive's holdings are available in both streaming formats and files that can be downloaded.
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