Monday, September 24, 2007

FREE Resources

APTPLUS and Discovery Education– As you may know, Alabama Public Television is pleased to offer the K-12 educational content of Unitedstreaming free of charge to every teacher in Alabama through APT’s free educational, multimedia website, APTPLUS. The Unitedstreaming content is owned by Discovery Education, and Alabama Public Television is leasing the content from Discovery. Contact Libby Davis at ldavis@aptv.org to sign up. Please include the name of your school district and cover group with which you are affiliated as well as your preferred e-mail address for enrollment purposes. This is an awesome resource with over 4,000 educational programs for classroom use. The subscription for this is $1,500 per year, but for Alabama teachers it is FREE!!!! The website for APT is http://www.aptv.org/Learning/APTPlus/ , and there are lots of free resources here as well.

Discovery Education Science Connection - As you all know, APT has paid for all educators in the State of Alabama to have access to United Streaming (If you don't know, look here: United Streaming ). Now they are providing us with a 45 day free membership to Discovery Education Science Education, which is a new online multimedia toolkit specifically for middle-grade science instruction. The info can be found here: Discovery Education Science Connection.

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