Special Assignment #2

Part A

Kahn Academy

The Kahn Academy is a non-profit organization including eight members. Their goal is to "change education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere". The academy works for students,teachers,parents, and coaches. For students, they can make use of the extensive video library, practice exercises, and assessments from any computer with access to the web. For parents,coaches, and teachers, they are able to access what their students or children are learning and doing on the Khan Academy.

iTunesU

iTunesU is created by Apple for people to learn anything,anytime, and anywhere. iTunesU is "a powerful distribution system for everything from lectures to language lessons, films to labs, audiobooks to tours — is an innovative way to get educational content into the hands of students". Anyone can access iTunesU from their phone or computer.It brings the power of the iTunes Store to education, making it easy to give information to students and faculty, or to continuous learners all over the world. With the iTunes U site, your work has a single home for all the digital content created by educators. All of which can be easily downloaded and viewed on any Mac, PC, iPod, or iPhone.This is a great way to keep track of all forms of learning on the web.

TED

TED is a non-profit organization created in 1984 that started out as a conference that represented the three words: Technology, Entertainment, and Design. TED has two annual conferences,the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh UK each summer.TED also includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and TED Conversations, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize.On TED.com they make talks and performances by the TED members live and available for all viewers all the time.The TED mission is to spread ideas to everyone they come in contact with. TED is passionate about the learning of others;"We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we're building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other".

Part B

Kahn Academy

In the Kahn Academy, you can watch videos, practice with exercises and create your own personal exercise playlist. The exercises range from math, science, humanities, and test prep. Algebra, arithmetic, biology, brain teasers,banking,calucus, standard tests,chemistry, computer science,astronomy, credit crisis,currency economics,equations, finance,GMAT, geometry, history,ITT JEE, Kahn Academy talks and interviews,linear algebra,MA tests, organic,Paulson bailout,physics, pre-algebra,precalculus, probability,SAT prep, singapore math,statistics, trig,valuation and investing,capital markets,and ck12 are the many subjects Kahn academy has to offer their viewers. All of these subjects contain tons of links with problems, exercises, talks,videos and more to help their viewers learn more about what they are interesting in learning.

iTunesU
On iTunesU, there are tons of things to access. From websites, your own ePub documents, course materials,lectures, podcasting, and more.You can look at many universities pages, documents, and videos from iTunesU. You can even create, brochures, flyers, and manuals through many available documents.There is a "beyond campus", students and faculty can access a wealth of content from distinguished groups such as MoMA, the New York Public Library, Public Radio International, and PBS stations.

TED
In TED, viewrs can access speakers, themes, talks, and translations all given by the team of TED. You can search and view conversations and talks by categories and names. The easy connection to videos,talks, and blogs makes the site easy to use.Majority of TED is talks and conversations by TED members. TED likes for their viewers to let them know what they think about TED by allowing them to leave messages on the site.

Part C,D,&E

Kahn Academy
Kahn Academy on PBS
This video on Kahn Academy did not come to a shock to me at all. It was awesome that he recieved recognition on his achievements. Kahn Academy has made thousands of videos,lessons,and other things accessible for people worldwide to learn tons of different things. I love this website and I will be looking forward to using it in the future.

iTunesU
iTunesU Profiles
The video on Arizona State University using iTunesU for profiles is very interesting. It just goes to show that many schools are using iTunesU to keep track of music,lessons,homework,websites,and many other things just from the touch of their mobile phones or computers. If I used technology such as the iPhone or iPod, I would definitely use the iTunesU. I do however think that this is an awesome resource for many students,teachers,and parents.

TED
Nathan Myhrvold: Cooking as never seen before
This video is about Nathan Myhrvold showing people how food has never been viewed before. He used an example of how steaming broccoli can become more technological.Although this video is a little too much for me to want to look at(I would rather read a book about it), this website is really useful. All of the videos on TED is very reliable and is something I an my students could definitely use.