Mark Your Calendar for Three Free Smithsonian Learning Lab Webinars in January

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Smithsonian Learning Lab is an excellent resource that Ive featured dozen or more times for many years. Later on this month the Smithsonian Learning Lab is hosting three totally free webinars for instructors who want to discover more about how to utilize it for online and in-person direction. All of the webinars will be livestreamed on YouTube and you do not require to sign up ahead of time. The webinars are:

What is the Smithsonian Learning Lab?

Smithsonian Learning Lab is an excellent resource that Ive included dozen or more times over the years. Later this month the Smithsonian Learning Lab is hosting 3 free webinars for instructors who want to discover more about how to utilize it for online and in-person instruction. The Smithsonian has a crowdsourcing job called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

Smithsonian Open Access includes more than 2.8 million digital artifacts that you can view and download totally free. While the Smithsonian Open Access homepage does have a couple of initial videos, theyre more promotional than they are educational. Thats why I created the following brief video summary of how to search.
Smithsonian Open Access.

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Smithsonian Learning Lab enables teachers to produce and browse for files, images, videos, interactive animations, and lesson plans from a large range of Smithsonian-hosted resources. It likewise lets you create collections to share with others in addition to produce tasks to give to your students.
This video playlist teaches you how to collect, personalize, and share collections of resources in the Smithsonian Learning Lab.

Other Smithsonian Resources to Note.

The Smithsonian has a crowdsourcing task called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers. This project is an effort to transcribe collections of primary sources housed by the Smithsonian. In this brief video I show and describe how you and your students can get involved in the projects.

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