How did I miss this before?!? Free resources from Open Culture

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Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free. It’s all enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it, and give you access to this high quality content whenever and wherever you want it. Some of our major resource collections include:

Source: The best free cultural & educational media on the web | Open Culture

This is going to be one of my first stops from now on when I’m looking for curriculum and media to use for lessons!

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