|
DLO
Database Name
|
Year
level
|
No.
of DLO's
|
Description
of contents
|
KidzOnline
|
4-13
|
25
online seminars |
The
focus of these online video assisted seminars is on information and
communication technology. They cover aspects such as digital awareness,
the Internet, animation, videoconferencing, information literacy .
. . They are free and are excellent courses. |
| COL
Knowledge Finder |
8-13
|
1
000 000 |
The
COL knowledge finder indexes about one million documents on education
from selected websites related to education and development. |
Merlot
|
6-13
|
100
000 |
Merlot
is one of the most established digital learning objects databases.
Aimed primarily at tertiary level studies, there are nonetheless numerous
digital objects here that would be suitable for some secondary school
courses as well as upper primary. |
MIT
course database
|
12-13
|
700+
courses |
A
free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners
around the world. OCW supports MIT's mission to advance knowledge
and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true
to MIT's values of excellence, innovation, and leadership. |
LEA
ICT learning Object database
(click on ICT Learning Objects) |
0-8
|
370
|
A
range of high quality non-web objects including excel, Word, Access,
PowerPoint and Publisher that can be downloaded. |
| Alexandria
(Careo) |
0-13
|
4000
|
Campus
Alberta Repository of Learning Objects: free membership that allows
you to add objects to this repository. Science focus. |
SMETE
Digital Library
|
4-13
|
1500
(approx) |
Science,
Math, Engineering, and Technology Education |
Ilumina
|
9-13
|
1000
(approx) |
Ilumina
is a digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials
for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science.
It is designed to quickly and accurately connect users with the educational
resources they need. These resources range in type from highly granular
objects such as individual images and video clips to entire courses. |
The
Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM)
|
0-13
|
39,064 |
The Gateway to Educational MaterialsSM is a Consortium effort to provide
educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources
found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial
Internet sites. GEM is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. |
Fathom
|
4-13 |
40
online courses (approx) |
A
collection of online seminars (brilliant!) covering a wide range of
topics including Victorian England, undersea animals, Shakespeare,
African studies, the pyramids . . . . |
Ibiblio
|
unstated
|
10.000(s)
?? |
Ibiblio.org
averages 3 million information requests per day, and the contributor-maintained
collections are expanding daily. Home to one of the largest "collections
of collections" on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a database of
freely available information, including software, music, literature,
art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. |
FREE
(Federal Resources for Educational Excellence)
|
0-13 |
24000+
|
Gateway
to Educational Materials, which offers a database of more than 24,000
education resources across more than 400 web sites. This database
is made possible by the Federally supported GEM Consortium, a group
of non-federal organizations and Federal agencies that have developed
an education-specific metadata profile, controlled vocabularies, and
tools for using the profile and vocabularies. |
Teachers@work
|
0-13
|
3500/7200
|
Reviews
of web sites for educators |
EOE
Foundation
|
|
3000+
|
Java
Applet Library. (Click on the Education object economy icon) fantastic
collection of applets here but read the conditions of use. |
Quia
|
0-13 |
2000+
Java applets |
Matching
game Flashcards Concentration game Word search puzzle Battleship Challenge,
board Columns activity Hangman game, Jumbled words, Ordered list activity,
Picture perfect activity Pop-ups, Rags-to-riches game, Scavenger hunt,
Cloze activity Patterns.
For $US49 you can create your own using their simple applications
package |
Pict(ure)s
for learning
|
0-13 |
1000's
(unstated) |
Pics4Learning
is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The
Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have
been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. |
Free
Foto
|
0-13
|
50
000 |
50
000 images that are royalty free for private non-commercial users |
Library of Congress
|
0-13 |
1
000 000 |
The
Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division is pleased to
announce that between January and March 2004, it added thousands of
catalog records and images to the Library's Prints and Photographs
Online Catalog (PPOC), bringing the number of images in the catalog
to nearly 1 million. |
Discover:
Visual Arts and Music
|
0-13 |
2500 |
Discover
is a database of visual arts and music resources selected for use
by New Zealand schools. Over 2,500 multimedia items are available
and almost all are from National Library of New Zealand collections.
Access to Discover is free. |
Timeframes:
NZ Images
|
0-13 |
30
000 |
More
than 30,000 images from the Alexander Turnbull Library collections.
Most are of early NZ life and people. |
National
Science Digital Library
|
0-13 |
100
000's (?) |
NSDL
is a digital library of exemplary resource collections and services,
organized in support of science education at all levels. Starting
with a partnership of NSDL-funded projects, NSDL is emerging as a
centre of innovation in digital libraries as applied to education,
and a community centre for groups focused on digital-library-enabled
science education. |
Papers
Past
(Newspapers) |
5-13 |
400
000 |
Papers
Past showcases selected 19th century New Zealand newspapers and periodicals.
The site currently contains digital images of over 600,000 pages from
30 publications. |
Educational
Object Economy
|
3-12 |
3600
|
Welcome
to the educational Java applets section. Please add new applets! This
helps our community grow. Simply click the add button and fill out
the short form. You can also edit your entry. To browse, click any
subject below. Use the advanced search to select items by title, author,
description, etc. Please review or comment on the applets. |
NEEDS
|
11-12
? |
|
NEEDS
- The National Engineering Education Delivery System is a digital
library of learning resources for engineering education. NEEDS provides
web-based access to a database of learning resources where the user
(whether they be learners or instructors) can search for, locate,
download, and comment on resources to aid their learning or teaching
process. |
The
Ranfurly Collection
|
0-13 |
4000 |
The
Ranfurly Collection is an online collection of paintings and drawings,
papers and photographs created by Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand
from 1897 to 1904, and his entourage.
Paintings and drawings - two sketch books and seven separate watercolour
paintings. Papers - 2,970 pages of letters, account books, diaries
and scrapbooks. Photographs - four albums containing 450 photographs
plus 24 separate family photographs |
Education
World
|
0-13 |
2000 |
Not
actually a DLO collection but could be used as such without metadata.
This is an excellent collection of knowledge items that can be utilised
in unit creation. Read copyright information carefully to appreciate
limitations on this content. Excellent content. |
National
Library of Australia Picture
Library
|
0-13
|
67000 |
A tremendous collection of both historical and contemporary images
covering all aspects of Australia : its people, places and history.
|