YouTube EDU

YouTube EDU has been around for a year. If you haven't checked it out, you should. It now features over 65,000 academic videos and 350 full courses from universities like Stanford, Yale, and MIT. Here is the Education Channel on YouTube EDU.

Open Culture blog offers compilation of "intelligent" YouTube channels. Great way to explore what YouTube has to offer for your own edification or your students'. Monty Python all in one place is quite handy, after all.

On a related note, C-Span has made its entire video library available. All 23 years--160,000 hours. Maybe not as entertaining as YouTube, but certainly both current and historical. The archive is searchable and free. Includes Book TV broadcasts. I did pretty well on this quiz; how about you?

New 23

The 2010 version of 23 Things On a Stick launched February 1. MILI participants are welcome to sign up. This year it is a monthly newsletter--Things On a Stick--delivered via email. Each issue will offer two to three Things of use in libraries or personally. There are no other requirements--no blogging, no deadlines--and no prizes! You can find the Newsletter Archive here or go to the Things On a Stick Archive blog to Join the Mailing list.

ProQuest Resources

In light of the session on databases held recently, here are some additional resources from ProQuest. ProQuest is the vendor for ProQuest Newstand Complete, Historical New York Times, and Historical Minneapolis Tribune. Newstand Complete and Historical Tribune are available via ELM. MELSA provides the Historical New York Times through metro area public libraries 9public library card needed for access to MELSA provided databases).

ProQuest Newsletters (free to subscribe). They, of course, promote their database products. Useful for curriculum ideas, links to ProQuest videos and more.

• Explorations for updates and inspiration for K-12 teachers
• History Happenings for K-12 teachers

You can follow ProQuest on Twitter, which is where I learned about these newsletters. @ProQuest