Sunday, June 26, 2011

Accessible Instructional Materials- AIM

Accessible Instructional Materials

Annotation and Organizational Tools
KooBits 4.0 “is a free application for both Windows and Mac for organizing and annotating e-books. Features include highlighting, a "stamp to mark important sections" and an "extraction tool to copy content" for use with the application's scrapbook. Supported formats include PDF, EPUB, XML, HTML, and KBJ.” http://www.koobits.com/

NookStudy- allows students to annotate and organize e-books. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nookstudy/index.asp?cds2Pid=34666

Video
Kwintessential is a repository of video, articles and other resources concerning communication. http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/intercultural/intercultural-sensitivity.html

TopDocumentaryFilms offers a spectrum of free films on a variety of topics. Categories include politics, philosophy, media, health, the environment, religion, science and many others. http://topdocumentaryfilms.com

Speeches
American Rhetoric features famous speeches. This web site include images, speech transcripts in pdf, video or audio downloads. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html

History.com- You can also find class speech presentations  by categories (presidential, war, sports, civil rights, and space exploration) on http://www.history.com/speeches


NATIONAL CENTER ON ACCESSIBLE INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AT CAST http://aim.cast.org/