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Some more free onlines resources
A quick Sunday evening post for those who like to spend their online time learning about the most diverse things.
Open Culture - a quick one stop shop for a wealth of online resources for language learning, interesting podcasts, free ebooks and classic films, etc.
Khan Academy - mostly science lessons and exercises, but also has a growing collection of history, art history and American Civics, for those a bit more humanities orientated.
Smithsonian Podcasts - One stop shop for Smithsonian podcasts (also available on iTunes, but a chore to search through.
Archaeology, Museums and Outreach - a recently published blog post detailing the best free downloads. I’ll be adding them to the Free Museum Resources Online page in the next couple of days.
Museum ID - Publishes a journal and has recently completed a nine-book series of which one chapter of each is available to download for free. Free!
Enjoy! And don’t forget to let me know if you find any great, free museum-related resources online that I can add to the growing list.
Sounding Out Your Heritage
The SOYH project brought together groups of over-60s from a wide variety of backgrounds across Kent and Medway over a series of learning sessions. These sessions provided learning support to the participants to help them explore an aspect of their heritage that interested them and produce a resource which would enable others to learn about their heritage too. Over the course of the sessions, it was intended that where possible learners would begin to develop a new skill or realise other opportunities for learning which could help to sustain their informal learning activity in the future. Learning goals for each individual were identified and supported. The achievements of the learners were celebrated at an end of project event and the resources they have produced are being made widely available. The project was evaluated, and best practice as well as lessons learned from the project are being widely disseminated. GEM will continue its work with over-60s by organising professional development events for care professionals and heritage educators, and producing further resources and publications – including updating and improving this toolkit.
This web area provides access to information about the project, the online version of the toolkit, and resources for you to download and use.
