The Office for Intellectual Freedom, with the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee and others, develops toolkits on a variety of topics to assist librarians and the general public  http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/iftoolkits/intellectual.cfm

The American Rhetoric Web site is dedicated to Public Communication of all kinds and includes a Speech Bank, Rhetorical Figures in Sound, Movie Speeches and more. It feature "The Top 100 Speeches," considered "the most significant speeches in American history" according to leading scholars and compiled by two researchers in the field. Users can view speeches by rank or decade, as well as by categories.A full-text transcript is available for each speech and an MP3 audio file is available for most.http://www.americanrhetoric.com

There's an opportunity to build a new, open mass medium of online television. We're developing the Democracy internet TV platform so that watching internet video channels will be as easy as watching TV and broadcasting a channel will be open to everyone. Unlike traditional TV, everyone will have a voice.
http://www.getdemocracy.com/

FILM (Finding Inspiration in Literature & Movies) is a movie curricula program for young people promoting literacy, activity-based learning and service.

The program was created in 2004 by Heartland Truly Moving Pictures and the National Collaboration for Youth (NCY). Its focus is the development and distribution of free curricula based on Truly Moving Picture award-winning films to channel positive messages and life-affirming themes into the minds and lives of youth. The curricula is designed in conjunction with movie studios and youth educators to get youth reading and watching quality content, provoke thought and exploration of pertinent themes and issues, and inspire participation in theme-based activities and service projects.  http://www.youthfilmproject.org/

Freedocumentaries.org streams full-length documentary films free of charge, with no registration needed.  http://www.freedocumentaries.org

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Our best educators and parents understand that playing is learning. Teachers can use this comic strip game to encourage students to improve language, reading, storytelling and creative skills. For those who teach young and old how to read and write, and to learn English or to speak a second language, MakeBeliefsComix.com can be an invaluable resource in achieving these objectives. In fact, Google and UNESCO selected MakeBeliefsComix as one of the world’s most innovative web sites in fostering literacy and reading.

MEET ME AT THE CORNER, Virtual Field Trips for Kids, is a dynamic, interactive site, which encourages individual expression and participation through video submissions from children worldwide. Through these video pod casts we hope to create a community of children, who learn the art of self-expression and storytelling through video. http://www.meetmeatthecorner.org/

Musopen is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) music. The site seeks to give the world access to music without the legal hassles so common today. The site's aim is to record or obtain recordings that have no copyrights so that our visitors may listen, re-use, or in any way enjoy music. "Put simply, our mission is to set music free". http://www.musopen.com

My Pop Studio is a creative play experience that strengthens critical thinking skills about television, music, magazines and online media directed at girls. ...My Pop Studio strengthens media literacy skills, promotes positive youth development, and increases knowledge about health issues. Highly interactive creative play activities are used to create an online community that guides users through the process of deconstructing, analyzing and creating media. Video segments, flash animation, media deconstruction games and quizzes, and moderated blogs make the website lively, fun and educational.
http://www.mypopstudio.com/

NASA's Do-It-Yourself Podcast activity sets the stage for students to host a show that features astronauts training for missions, doing experiments in space or demonstrating equipment. We'll provide a set of audio and video clips along with photos and information about a space-related topic. You and your students may choose as many items as you want to include in your project and download them to your computer. Students may use the information we provide or conduct their own research to

A project of the Society of Professional Journalists, Open Doors is a tutorial on FOI laws. It offers such useful resources as the distinction between state and federal open government laws and an A to Z list of issues and topics that fall under FOI laws.  http://www.spj.org/foia_opendoors.asp#how

Our mission is to build an open and democratic television platform.
• Television is the defining medium of our culture. There's now an opportunity to create a television culture that is fluid, diverse, exciting, and beautiful. Built by people working together.

• The platform is open-source and built on open-standards. http://participatoryculture.org/

This is the Teachers' Guide for using the Professional Cartoonists Index web site in your classes. We have developed lesson plans for using the editorial cartoons as a teaching tool in Social Sciences, Art, Journalism and English at all levels --click on the icons to the left to visit our lesson plans. http://www.cagle.com/teacher/

Teacher Tube is free for everyone. Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.  http://www.teachertube.com

Intellectual Property (IP) is abstract and creative rights assigned to IP are not well understood. It's difficult for individuals to connect it to their everyday activities, and therefore it's pretty easy to ignore. Yet, IP and the rights that protect it are in fact real—with tangible consequences felt deeply by the myriad of people who created it and who are part of the value chain it provides. Creative rights are a cornerstone of creative freedom. It's important that we understand and respect them at a personal level meaningful to our everyday lives—particularly in a world of digitally delivered content that is easier to access than ever before, and where that access is often misinterpreted as a license to use. Students interact with music, movies, software, images, literature, and other digital content every day. Are they aware that these works are protected, and do they understand why these issues are relevant to them? http://www.ipreducation.com/

 Teaching Current Events via Newspapers, Magazine, TV http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/cevents.html

The Key provides reading material for adults with limited reading skills.  These include adults who have not completed their high school educations, those learning English and those with learning disabilities. http://www.keynews.org/

This e-learning site focuses on a critical, but often neglected skill for business, communication, and engineering students, namely visual literacy, or the ability to evaluate, apply, or create conceptual visual representations. After this tutorial, students should be able to evaluate advantages and disadvantages of visual representations, to improve their shortcomings, to use them to create and communicate knowledge, or to devise new ways of representing insights. http://www.visual-literacy.org/

Youth Communication helps teenagers develop their skills in reading, writing, thinking, and reflection, so they can acquire the information they need to make thoughtful choices about their lives http://www.youthcomm.org/index.html

Get information, links, and discussions on socially-responsible global issues; Participate in contests, activities, and prizes for your work; Gain exposure and get feedback on your creations.  All in a commercial-free space! http://www.takingitglobal.org/members/ss.html?partner=ymex