MERLOT for Librarians
MERLOT for Librarians
MERLOT 101 for all types of librarians
(A multimedia educational resource for learning and online teaching.)
Another word for MERLOT is "Google for education"
Welcome Librarians
MERLOT now has Smart Searching meaning that by starting your OER search in MERLOT you search not just MERLOT, but also other online OER libraries as well as the Web.
Search MERLOT by BROWSE collections
Another fun way to find good resources is to search in under communities.
There are 3 communities to explore. Academic Discipline, Academic Support, and Partners.
Library and Information Services Community Portal. Create a free account and begin using the learning materials, submitting your own materials for evaluation or those you find valuable on the web, and learning new ideas to help your teaching. MERLOT can only continue to be useful
This is on the left side of the screen:
Examples:
(K-12)
To get to the material from MERLOT "Go to material".
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Contains a large collection of platform independent, interactive, java applets and activities for K-12 mathematics and teacher education.
Neuroscience for Kids
This is a collection for K-12 concerning the nervous system and neuroscience. The site includes descriptive materials, experiments, activities, links to articles, resources for teaching neuroscience, and a listing of Internet resources related to the neurosciences.
Bible based coloring pages for kids: kid explorers
"Kids, get out your Crayons or color on-line. Color your way through the Bible, plus enjoy animals, dinosaurs and alphabet pages and more. Available in 14 languages, including English, French, German, and Italian." Free use is allowed for Christian settings. Also has stories to read and listen to. Includes video clips.
Drawing for beginners
According to the author, "We must think with the brush and the pencil; we must think first and then draw round our 'think'. I hope that this book may help you to arrange your thoughts. It is but a helping hand on the broad highway that leads to the great world of art."
Examples:
(College students and other adults)
Romantic Castles and Palaces: As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
An open textbook. Published in 1901. "This is a collection of essays on forty-eight pretty spectacular castles and palaces from around the world. The authors are Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and many more."
Digifit
This is free a mobile app for the iPhone and iPad. It uses GPS and talks to you each mile and tells you your distance, speed and average. It it almost like having a trainer with you on your workouts.
CA Career Cafe
A great place for students to find information to help them with their career pathway. Includes activities for students.
Health career planning
iSeek Careers: Program Highlights on technical allied health careers and programs of study in Minnesota
10 Best Foods, 10 Worst Foods
This project looks at the best foods to eat to manage weight and cure common ailments and then identifies the worst foods which have become all to prevelent in our society. Take the challenging quiz to receive your just dessert.
What's Asthma all about?
A website that links to information and products used to treat asthma.
Ameritrade Education Center
This is a commercial site that offers a thorough yet non-technical overview of all types of financial instruments including stocks and bonds. It goes into some detail to explain the process of offering stocks and bonds.