3 Must Know About Resources

I often come across many resources that I find useful, here are three that I’d like to share with you.

Free Technology for Teachers: I love this blog because Richard Byrne offers really cool and useful information. Take the time to browse through the posts. For instance, Become a Google Power Searcher made me aware of an online course that Google is offering for free. After reading Snaggy is a Handy Screen Capture Tool, I used Snaggy and really liked it. I wanted to learn how to create my own infographics and 3 Free Tools for Creating Infographics gave me what I needed.

Brain Pickings Weekly: Each Sunday I receive this newsletter which I really love because it contains information that interests me, such as books to read that I would not usually hear about, awesome articles and cool videos. Looking to get your creative juices flowing? Brain Pickings may be just what you need. Here is a sample, John Cleese on the 5 Factors to Make Your Life More Creative, Einstein, Anne Lamott, and Steve Jobs on Intuition vs. Rationality, and How Intuition and the Imagination Fuel Scientific Discovery and Creativity: A 1957 Guide.

English: Steve Jobs shows off the white iPhone 4 at the 2010 Worldwide Developers Conference Español: Presentación del iPhone 4 por Steve Jobs en la Worldwide Developers Conference del año 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Invitation to World Literature: This is a great site but I wish it had a lot more content. You have videos with a slate of people talking about a particular classic literature. Right now they have videos on only 13 books:

1. The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction
2. My Name Is Red
3. The Odyssey
4. Bacchae
5. The Bhagavad Gita (Classics of Indian Spirituality)
6. The Tale of Genji
7. The Journey to the West, Revised Edition, Volume 1
8. The Popol Vuh (Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya: The Great Classic of Central American Spirituality, Translated from the Original Maya Text)
9. Candide
10. Things Fall Apart
11. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah’s Book Club)
12. The God of Small Things: A Novel
13. The Arabian Nights Complete and Unabridged (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)

I have watched a few of the videos and they gave me great insights and a deeper understanding of the book, and what I really appreciated was the diversity of perspectives. For instance, for Homer’s Odyssey, I was exposed to professors, an actor from Oh Brother Where Art Thou, a comic artist and much more.

What other resources can you add to the list? Please write your thoughts in the comment box below.

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