More free online education resources for homeschoolers.

CNN World Business is reporting on several collaborative efforts between Universities and iTunes, Youtube, etc… that will put more quality education resources online for free. Here are some direct links to the resources.

Youtube EDU

iTunes U

MIT Open Course Ware

Open Course Ware Consortium

Academic Earth

Tux Paint

Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

Free books and textbooks for homeschoolers.

Here are three great sites for free books:

Project Gutenberg is the first producer of free ebooks. Hundreds of books in their collection.

Global Text Project will create open content electronic textbooks that will be freely available from a website. Distribution will also be possible via paper, CD, or DVD.

Flat World Knowledge is a work in progress. The goal is to provide free college textbooks to all.

Go ask Alice.

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student’s first exposure to object-oriented programming.

Stellarium – Bringing the stars alive

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

Scratch – imagine, program, share

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.

Ideas worth sharing.

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. The site has a hundreds of videos available for free that are enlightening as well as inspirational.

Welcome to Smeedoo

This is site was created to showcase many of the great free educational resources available on the internet. While the primary audience for this site is homeschoolers, anyone interested in free educational tools will find this blog useful.