Educational+Resources

=Online Resource Links= toc

Hands on projects
[|Instructables] is an open source site with detailed instructions, photos, and downloads on how to DIY anything from turtle biscuits to Arduino Robots. If you have your own ideas, you can create your own instructable and post it to the site.

[|How Toons] is a DIY comic website where users post relatively simple projects and instructions in the form of a comic. Some categories include: Animation, Biology, Computing, Energy, Engineering, Fashion, Music and Tools.

[|Make Magazine] online contains many additional features when compared to the monthly hard copy edition. It contains a blog where users can discuss ideas and projects, videos, podcasts, a project list, and an online store with DIY kits and other tools.

Education
[|MIT Open Course Ware] contains free lecture notes, exam,s, and video from MIT classes. It is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflect almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.

[|I-Tunes University] is a powerful distribution fro everything from lectures to language lessons, films to labs, audio books to tours. Video and audio courses can be downloaded for free directly to your computer or ipod through I-Tunes.

[|Academic Earth] contains online courses from the world's top scholars. You can browse courses based on university, subject, or top rated instructors

[|Stanford's AI course] is an online course in Artificial Intelligence sponsored by Stanford and Google. Thousands have signed up so far, completing the course with satisfactory marks will earn you an AI certificate.

[|Khanacademy] has a library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history. Courses contain instruction as well as practice exercises and examples to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace. See Khanacademy's Wikipedia entry [|here]

[|Peer to Peer University] is a site where people work together to learn a particular topic by completing tasks, assessing individual and group work, and providing constructive feedback. Here you can browse existing groups and courses or start your own.

[|Edupunks' Guide] is a comprehensive guide to learning online and charting a personalized path to an affordable credential using the latest innovative tools and organizations. It can be downloaded for free in a variety of formats for computers, phones, or kindles.

[|GOOD] is a website full of information, ideas, and projects on a variety of topics from political news, to design. Informative articles, videos, and projects are a great way to get inspiration for something new.

[|w3 Schools] learn how to make a website. We offer free tutorials in all web development technologies

Networking/Crowdsourcing
[|Ambidexterous Thinking] is an open (or closed if you prefer) source site where users can post innovative concepts and collaborate in groups or globally to refine and synthesize ideas, yours or others, to produce tangible results.

Connexions is a website that is full of modules that help others learn small or large pieces of knowledge and collaborate and create with others to build collections of knowledge and ideas.

Inspiration
[|TED talks] Ideas worth spreading. Listen to lectures from the world's greatest minds about new ideas and projects they've been working on.

Others
[|Focus the Nation]:Forums to action is a dynamic program that develops new student leaders to drive solution oriented clean energy collaborations between their campuses and communities.

[|Space Federation] is a program started by the non-profit [|School Factory]. Space Federation is designed to provide guidance, materials, and even sponsorship to start-up maker- or hacker-spaces.

PV Education is a website that has a great variety of in depth information about solar power technology and photovoltaics. It has a lot of great pictures and simulations that help describe all of the concepts that are taught.

=Support=

[|NSF Innovation Corps]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has established a new opportunity to assess the readiness of emerging technology concepts for transitioning into valuable new products through a public-private partnership. The NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program will bring together the technological, entrepreneurial, and business know-how to bring discoveries ripe for innovation out of the university lab.

[|Changemaker Central]
Come to **Changemaker Central** to learn about all of ASU’s community and national service, service learning, and entrepreneurship programs. Changemaker Central, located on all four campuses, serves as a key gathering space for ASU’s social innovators

=Useful Media=

[|Exploring the Tech DIY of 'Hackerspaces'] is a program from NPR's Talk of the Nation: Science Friday. It features a great conversation on the ideas behind, and the creation of, hacker- or maker-spaces. Audio and text transcript available free at the link.

=Important Concepts=

[|Translational Research]is a way of thinking about and conducting scientific research to make the results of research applicable to the population under study and is practised in the natural and biological, behavioural, and social sciences.

[|NSPE Code of Ethics for Engineers]

=Educational Initiatives=

[|Digital Designers Rediscover Their Hands] is a NY times article highlighting how Adobe is using innovative methods to foster creativity

[|Sal Khan - Bill Gates' favorite teacher]

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[|Five Characteristis of an Effective Educator] media type="youtube" key="rXOCDTlqyBM" width="425" height="350"

[|New York Times: Creating Science Fair Projects]

The [|Millennium Project] is a research center concerned with the impact of technology on our society, our communities, our institutions, and our planet. Among the topics under active study are the following:

[|Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching]: Carnegie Calls for Transformation of Engineering Education