Explore Learning
Thursday, 18 March 2010
10:19AM

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Visitors to our media center will be greeted by our digital welcome mat, and can see themselves on U•TV, an interactive exhibit where you can explore the art and science of television production. You can also take a peek inside our television studios. more...

GED & Workplace Education


This site provides free, 24/7 resources to help you prepare for the GED exam. Help is a click away with GED Connection, a series of 39 half hour programs that you can view here via streaming video. Check out the GED online exercises and practice tests on this site as well as get all the information you’ll need to register for and take the GED exam.

In addition, this site features Workplace Essential Skills video lessons via streaming video. These video lessons and our online practice tools allow you to learn about computers, the internet and build the workplace skills that today’s employers demand the most.		  



Ready To Learn is the combination of broadcast programming and outreach services WOSU offers parents, families, caregivers and educators to prepare young children for success in school. Here's a list of Ready To Learn services:
 
The Bakery Shop— The Bakery Shop is an educational game collaboratively developed by WOSU Public Media, the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) at The Ohio State University and the Ohio Council on Economic Education. Targeted to second graders, the game is designed to immerse the user in concepts of economics in a visually engaging way using an entertaining game context.
  

Teachers’ Domain is an online, media-on-demand resource library that offers innovative methods to help keep students engaged and interested in civil rights, engineering, physical science, life science, and earth and space science.
   Teachers Domain



At mycooljob.org, teens can explore various career choices, and what they might want to be or do someday. The project was funded by a grant through E-Tech, which specializes in using new technology so that Ohio learners will succeed in the world of tomorrow. The Columbus Dispatch also contributed to the site.
  mycooljob.org

Dances for Television — is a series of three dance vignettes exploring the relationships between ourselves, our environments, and our communities. The dances are unique creations for the camera — dance forms that cannot be performed on stage because the video shots and editing are part of the choreography.   Dances for Television

COSI —provides amazing resources for young children and their parents and caregivers. With unique adventures, COSI may just open a world of wonders for your young scientists.   COSI


PBS TEACHERS
PBS Teachers is PBS' national web destination for high-quality preK-12 educational resources. Here you'll find classroom materials suitable for a wide range of subjects and grade levels. We provide thousands of lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations.
   PBS Teachers 


Programs broadcast on WOSU TV could be the beginning of learning adventures that may be as intriguing or absorbing as time and interest allow.  Start here to see where some of your favorite programs will take you.

www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/

www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/

www.pbs.org/newshour/

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/

Do you need professional development or continuing education credits?  You can take it in the comfort of home—in your own study.  Here are some online courses offered through Instructional Technology Services of Central Ohio. www.itsco.org/pd/olc.html

PBS provides online professional development through facilitated courses, a supportive learning community, and exemplary professional resources.  Explore TeacherLine. teacherline.pbs.org/teacherline/

Revisit Ohio literary perspectives. Ohioana Authors is a radio and Web resource examining literature which has sprung from the soil of Ohio and which is rooted in an author’s particular Ohio outlook. Visit www.ohioana-authors.org/

In April of 1952, the Federal Communications Commission allocated 242 channels—162 UHF and 80 VHF—for noncommercial, educational use.  WOSU TV was one of the first 30 educational stations to go on the air.  In Ohio, eight public television stations were licensed, strategically located to cover the entire state to make instructional programming (ITV) available to schools, kindergarten to 12th grade.
 

With digital technology, WOSU TV is moving beyond the typical over-the-air broadcast of educational programming to provide K-12 teachers what they really need to use media in the classroom. 

  • Through a partnership with ITSCO, thousands of short educational video clips are now available to teachers and students on demand.  To check the instant video library go to www.chalkwaves.org.
  • More digital educational material is available through a coalition of Ohio's public television stations and educational technology agencies.  To review the resources go to www.ohiodigitalclassroom.org/
  • More than 3,000 lesson plans and activities are available to you on PBS TeacherSource www.pbs.org/teachersource/
  • Click here for free access to Teachers’ Domain! a media-on-demand resource offering streaming video, multimedia learning tools, and corresponding lesson plans from NOVA, Frontline, American Experience, and other award-winning PBS programs.


    • Teaching Science to the MTV Generation

    Teaching Science to the MTV Generation is a professional development module for high school science teachers. It draws from the expertise of Dr. Susan Fisher, Professor of Entomology at The Ohio State University. Dr. Fisher believes in the multimodal approach in teaching and learning. Collaborating with professionals across disciplines, she has created a series of learning objects that explain scientific phenomena in many modalities: aural, visual, kinesthetic—in dance, in music, in computer graphics. Here are some of the learning objects produced by these collaborations.

    Dancing DNADANCING DNA
    http://streaming1.osu.edu/ramgen/media2/bio101sp06/dna.rm
    Modern dance and computer graphics combine to convey the essentials of DNA replication and cell division (mitosis). A video dance interpretation of chromosome movement is accompanied by an animated computer visualization of the cell replication process.The resulting video is designed to serve as a supplemental learning object for Biology 101 students studying DNA processes.



    Krebs CycleTBDBITL MARCHES THE KREBS CYCLE
    http://streaming1.osu.edu/ramgen/media2/bio101sp06/tbdbitl.rm
    The Krebs Cycle, an energy producing cycle in cellular metabolism, is metaphorically illustrated by The Best Damn Band in the Land—The Ohio State Marching Band. As the band performs, a computer animation of the cycle plays along side the marching band.



    FOOTBALL AND PHOTOSYNTHSIS
    http://streaming1.osu.edu/ramgen/media2/bio101sp06/football.rm
    Eight members of The Ohio State University football team perform the Z-scheme of photosynthesis. Football coach Jim Tressel provides the narration.




University Place is a collaborative project of WOSU, WPSU/Penn State and WPT/Wisconsin to provide university-generated content to local audiences and beyond. University Place content includes documentaries, features and learning objects related to STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics); panel discussions, and videotaped lectures on a variety of topics.

The Amadeus Deli

Join host Boyce Lancaster in a new hot spot where you can sample some the richest fare—the Amadeus Deli! Weekdays from noon to 1pm on WOSU 89.7, let Mozart and his contemporaries set the perfect soundtrack to your lunch hour. more...