The document describes Carolyn Kottmeyer's Online Bargain Basement, which provides free educational resources for students and teachers. It offers free high school courses, K-12 enrichment materials, and professional development resources for educators. The Bargain Basement aims to expand access to learning materials by collecting and sharing free online content from around the world. It includes options for learning languages, accessing international curricula, finding pen pals abroad, and getting involved in social projects with a global focus.

1. Online Bargain Basement
takes on
Global Awareness
Carolyn Kottmeyer
Kathi Kearney
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

2. Hoagies’ Gifted Education Page
• The “all things gifted” page
• 1150+ pages = Overwhelming
• Site-wide search on every page!
• Not supported by advertising or grants
• Affiliates programs
• Click on Shop Hoagies’ Page before you shop
• www.hoagiesgifted.org/shop.htm
• Also visit Facebook / LinkedIn / Twitter pages
• www.facebook.com/HoagiesGifted
• www.linkedin.com/pub/carolyn-k/0/a46/317
• @HoagiesGifted
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

3. Tools for Global Awareness
• Google Translate
• translate.google.com
• Google Maps
• Plus the Moon, and now Mars!
• maps.google.com
• Google Earth
• Street view tours of cities around the world
• www.google.com/earth
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

4. Tools for Global Awareness
• Your DVD collection!
• Click on the language option before you view, and watch
Harry Potter, Disney movies and more in
French, Spanish, and other languages!
• Skype
• www.skype.com
• Facetime
• www.apple.com/mac/facetime
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

5. Gifted Education Professional
Development Package
• Comprehensive 6-unit package
• Each unit in introductory, intermediate, advanced levels
• Early childhood, primary & secondary
• Understanding Giftedness
• Identification of Gifted Students
• Social and Emotional Development
• Underachievement
• Curriculum Differentiation
• Developing Programmes and Provisions
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

6. Gifted Education Professional
Development Package
• GONE!
• Sort of…
• Front page listing modules…
• web.archive.org/web/20110721224933/http://www.dest.gov.au/sector
s/school_education/publications_resources/profiles/Gifted_Education_
Professional_Development_Package.htm
• Individual modules for download
• foi.deewr.gov.au/collections/gifted-education-professional-
development-package
• Working on acquisition for Hoagies’ Gifted Page…
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

7. World Languages: German
• "Deutsch Aktuell“ German 1, 2, & 3 textbook series
• Includes all program videos, all listening activities, and the
entire workbook
• You only need to purchase the textbooks
• Internet Resource Center for the EMC/Paradigm Publishing
• irc.emcp.com/ircfiles/DeutschAktuell6e
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

8. BBC Languages
• Audio, video and games, including the
alphabet, phrases, vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar
, activities and tests
• Secondary level: 40 languages including
French, Spanish, Greek, Chinese, German, Italian, Port
uguese and 33 more
• Primary level: French, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese
• www.bbc.co.uk/languages
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

9. Learner.org
• High school, college and adult
• 52 half-hour video programs
• Use bookfinder.com or eBay for low-cost materials
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

10. Learner.org
• French in Action
• Language-immersion method is presented within a
humorous teleplay with native speakers of all ages and
backgrounds
• learner.org/resources/series83.html
• Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish
• Telenovela, or Spanish soap opera, immerses students with
native speakers
• Introduces cultures, accents, and dialects of Mexico, Spain,
Argentina, and Puerto Rico
• learner.org/resources/series75.html
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

11. MIT OpenCourseWare Languages & Literature
• Foreign language courses including
• Chinese I - VI
• German I – IV
• Spanish I – IV
• Portuguese I – II
• Foreign literature courses including
• International Women's Voices
• Introduction to European and Latin American Fiction
• East Asian Cultures: From Zen to Pop
• Lots more!
• ocw.mit.edu/courses/foreign-languages-and-literatures
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

12. Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative
• French I and II
• Free for independent learners
• $50 for academic certification
• oli.cmu.edu/learn-with-oli/see-our-free-open-courses
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

13. University of Cambridge Language Center
• Beginning and Intermediate Chinese; Basic German;
Russian Essentials
• www.langcen.cam.ac.uk/opencourseware
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

14. Native American
• Native Languages of the Americas: Preserving and
Promoting American Indian Languages
• www.native-languages.org
• The Center for American Indian Languages at the
University of Utah
• www.cail.utah.edu/?pageId=1633
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

15. Word2Word
• Online resources for learning more than 115
languages…
• Czech
• Hebrew
• Norwegian
• Tibetan
• Dozens and dozens more!
• www.word2word.com/course.html
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

16. LiveMocha
• 38 Languages and more!
• Beginner, intermediate and advanced levels
• Video dialog, grammar, vocabulary, reading, role playing,
and writing
• Selected by Save the Children as the preferred language
learning solution for staff!
• livemocha.com
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

17. Foreign Language News
• BBC World Service
• BBC News in 27 different languages!
• From Arabic to Pashto, Chinese to Vietnamese, plus lots more
• www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/languages
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

18. Foreign Language Newspapers
• MIT Foreign Language News and Newspapers
• Dozens of countries, in 8 languages including…
• Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian
and Spanish
• libguides.mit.edu/flnewspapers
• Language Quest International Newspapers
• Hundreds of papers from almost 60 countries!
• languagequest.com/utilities/foreign-newspapers.php
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

19. Children’s TV Shows and Cartoons
• YouTube playlist of foreign language cartoons
• www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6A2425C097BB0C98
• Disney stories
• Search YouTube for Disney {story or character}
• "The Three Little Pigs" in Italian…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwHYh4S1OiY
Preview FIRST to
assure no
tampering
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

20. Children’s TV Shows and Cartoons
• Bookbox animated stories
• Subtitled in the language – see the words as you hear them!
• Search YouTube for Bookbox {language}
• Italian… www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGO6d1c8C0c
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

21. Culture: Kids Web Japan
• Kids learn about Japan from kids!
• History, legends, government
• Manga, spooky stories,
• Hi-tech, education, sports
• Languages, local specialties
• Site available in English, French, German, Spanish, Korean,
Arabic, and Chinese… in addition to Japanese!
• web-japan.org/kidsweb
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

22. PenPals in other countries…
• ePals
• Safely Connect With Classrooms Around the
World for Collaborative, Project-Based
Learning
• Select by language and age
• Just ePals or so much more!
• Collaborative projects provided
• www.epals.com
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

23. International Contests
• Google Science Fair
• Compete against students around the world
• www.google.com/intl/en/events/sciencefair
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

24. Social projects – International
• Kiva Micro Loans
• Empower people around the world with a $25 loan
Choose a borrower
Make a loan
Get repaid
Repeat!
• www.kiva.org
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

25. Social projects – International
• Light up a Life
• Purchase solar lights for rural Peruvians
• computers4communities.org/Html/Beta/index.html
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

26. Social Projects – U.S.
• Origami Salami and Folding for Good
• To get the word out about the awesomeness of STEM as
seen through artful origami in a format in which students
could achieve real school credit, and in a way that would
make learners want to know more about STEM…
• www.origamisalami.com
• Music To My Ears
• Volunteer organization where middle and high school
children teach musical instrument lessons to elementary
school age children…
• www.musictomyearshanover.org
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

27. MOOC - Massive Open Online Courses
• Free online college courses, available to EVERYONE
• Started with Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Class in
October 2011
• Over 100,000 enrolled!
• Most courses are for “lifelong learners”
• Some now offering reasonably priced proctored exams and
completion certification!
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

28. MOOCs
• Udacity
• Partnered with Amara to offer courses in almost any language!
• www.udacity.com
• Coursera
• Hosts ~200 free courses from 33 of the world's best universities,
including Princeton, Stanford, Penn, Michigan, Caltech, Duke,
Illinois, Washington and others
• www.coursera.org
• edX
• Includes MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, University of Texas
• www.edx.org
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

29. International Curricula
• British National Curriculum
• www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/curric
ulum
• Swedish National Curriculum
• www.escandinavo.com/index.php?option=com_content&vi
ew=category&layout=blog&id=99&Itemid=177&lang=en
• Australian National Curriculum
• www.australiancurriculum.edu.au
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

30. National Curricula
• Finnish National Curriculum
• www.oph.fi/english/sources_of_information/core_curricula
_and_qualification_requirements/basic_education
• Ugandan National Curriculum
• www.ncdc.go.ug
• National Curriculum of Bangladesh
• With FREE downloadable textbooks
• www.nctb.gov.bd
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

31. Online Bargain Basement Offerings…
• Online Bargain Basement: Free High School Courses
• Collected for use by victims of Hurricane Katrina
• Online Bargain Basement Returns: Free K-12
Enrichment
• Expanded offerings for gifted kids of all ages
• Bargain Basement: Professional Development
• Online resources for teachers
• www.HoagiesGifted.org/online_hs.htm
©2012 Carolyn Kottmeyer

32. Thanks for coming down
to the
Online Bargain Basement
Questions?