K12 students and teachers are creating unprecedented opportunities for inquiry-based learning by expanding the geographic boundaries of their classrooms - - virtually and cost effectively.

Digital Library/Media Sources for the K20 Community

National Science Digital Library

The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) was created by the National Science Foundation to provide organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education.

The Library of Congress

The Library of Congress has a host of interactive educational materials online and provides professional development services for educators over Internet2 through videoconferencing.

WGBH Teacher’s Domain

Teachers’ Domain is an online library of more than 1,000 free media resources from the best in public television. These classroom resources, featuring media from NOVA, Frontline, Design Squad, American Experience, and other public broadcasting and content partners are easy to use and correlate to state and national standards. Teachers’ Domain resources include video and audio segments, Flash interactives, images, documents, lesson plans for teachers, and student-oriented activities. Once you register, you can personalize the site using “My Folders” and “My Groups” to save your favorite resources into a folder and share them with your colleagues or students.

Project Neptune

Project NEPTUNE offers rich educational opportunities for learners of all ages. Through their website, users can find real-time data, images and video from very dynamic earth-ocean systems.

C-SPAN Video Library

C-SPAN has digitized its entire holdings from 1998 to the present and allows educators and researchers to access this collection via the Internet2 Network. The video library is searchable using a extensive number of fields such as topic, speaker, organization, committee, keywords and has an optimized word searching tool that includes abstracts and closed captioning text.

SCETI

The University of Pennsylvania has made over 12,000 images from various collections of rare books, manuscripts, papyri, photographs and sheet music are available over the network through their SCETI Project.

MAGPI Newsletters and Mailing Lists

One of the easiest ways to stay up-to-date on MAGPI-related activities is to subscribe to our quarterly e-Newsletter and/or community-specific mailing lists. To sign up, click here.

MAGPI Program Podcast Library

In MAGPI’s Podcast Library in the University of Pennsylvania iTunes U Directory, you will find select archived MAGPI educational videoconferences and multimedia presentations created by our members and partners. To view or download a podcast, you must download iTunes software. To find MAGPI’s Podcasts, go the UPenn iTunes Directory and click on “MAGPI.”

New to MAGPI and Internet2? Here’s how to get started…

Getting connectivity to high-bandwidth networks is only the first step. Familiarizing yourself with the immense resources on these networks and how to begin building research and education collaborations is the bigger (and in many ways more important) undertaking. Through our Getting Started with MAGPI and Internet2 Guide you will learn how to begin navigating through this rich wealth of resources.

Resources for Interactive Videoconferencing in the Classroom

Interactive videoconferencing is becoming more ubiquitous in classrooms from Pre-K through post-doc. If you’re new to videoconferencing or want a refresher, we highly encourage you to attend our Videoconferencing: Best Practices and Virtual Field Trips or Videoconferencing: Planning Interactive Collaborations seminars. You may also want to consult the Videoconference Cookbook (created by ViDe) or the Videoconference Zone video for planning and etiquette guidance. If you’re looking for virtual field trip content providers on the Internet2 network, try searching MUSE, the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration or download the list we’ve put together [PDF]. Last but not least, check out some our favorite videoconferencing-related blogs: Videoconferencing Out on a Lim, K20 Interactions or VC Rox.