Teachers’ Domain Launches Open Educational Resources
On June 1, 2007 Teachers’ Domain http://www.teachersdomain.org announced the launch of Open Educational Resources–video segments, interactive activities, and lesson plans in earth science, engineering, life science, and physical science that are downloadable, sharable, and re-mixable. Whether you download them to your own computer, share them with your students and colleagues, or edit them to create your own educational media, Teachers’ Domain is proud to provide high-quality materials to help you learn and teach!

The Teachers’ Domain Collections are FREE for anyone to use and are comprised of carefully chosen and edited online resources, multimedia learning tools, and corresponding lesson plans from NOVA and other award-winning PBS programs. Currently providing more than 1,000 resources, a third of which will now be available as Open Educational Resources, Teachers’ Domain covers all key topics in science and is now expanding into the humanities. To see Teachers’ Domain’s new Open Educational Resources in action, please click here http://www.teachersdomain.org/resources/hew06/sci/ess/eiu/planetdefine/index.html to view an exciting sample resource entitled “What is a Planet?”.

Teachers’ Domain is an online educational service with two related components–collections and courses–that help teachers enhance their students’ learning experiences and advance their own teaching skills. It’s free and easy to register. Find fresh new ideas to get your students excited and engaged in learning!

Funding for presenting Open Educational Resources on Teachers’ Domain is provided by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Teachers’ Domain is the National Science Digital Library Pathway to Multimedia Resources for the Classroom http://nsdl.org/about/?pager=pathways, funded by the National Science Foundation.

The Achievement Standards Network (ASN)–Ready for Prime Time!
Are you ready to correlate resources to state academic standards? The ASN is ready to help. The NSDL Achievement Standards Network (ASN) now contains all of the states’ standards for math, science, and English language arts. For free access to the database, go to http://www.jesandco.org/asn/viewer. If you would like an in-house copy of the states’ standards, an RDF/XML distribution is available through an annual subscription. Once your resources have been correlated, ASN provides the networked technical infrastructure for applications to freely access the standards text for inclusion in your metadata to facilitate searching and browsing. For more information contact Diny Golder, JES & Co., at dinyg@jesandco.org, or visit the documentation site at http://thegateway.org/asn.