Language Guide
Language Guide: La Electronica
Televisions, stereos, CDs, cameras, etc. come alive with colorful graphics and audio. Move your mouse over each image to hear the correct Spanish pronunciation.
Repeat After Us
Repeat After Us: Online Library and Language Lab
This is a collection of copyright-free English texts and scripted recordings of poetry listed alphabetically by author's last name. It also lists the level of difficulty for each work as beginning, intermediate, or advanced.
Other
The National Archives Experience: Digital Vaults
Browse through hundreds of historical records, including photos, documents, maps, artwork, video clips, and audio files dating from the 1800s to the present. The Digital Vaults enables visitors to customize their exhibit experience to...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Go Figure With Figurative Language It Helps With Predicting!
In this lesson, learners will use figurative language, digital tools, and illustrations to write a story. The teacher will model how to use an app that has onomatopoeia to create a story with a good beginning, middle, and end. A video...
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 1300: Daniel Fahrenheit
Read about the history of how the Fahrenheit temperature scale was invented, and the man who invented it, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit. Includes an audio recording of this radio program episode.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Music of the United States
Very thorough resource for music in the United States. History, genres, and references can be found on this site. Includes sample audio recordings.
Other
Goucher English / General Prologue
This site, prepared for college English literature students, deals with the following aspects of Chaucer's General Prologue from "The Canterbury Tales": Genre, Form, Characters, Summary, Issues, and General Sources. Also contains...
National Museums Liverpool
National Museums Liverpool: Liverpool Blitz
A fictional but historically accurate recreation of the May 1941 bombing attacks on Liverpool by the German Air Force. You can click on a 24-hour timeline and get information on what was happening during the attacks. There is also an...
Wyzant
Wyzant: Bill Clinton
Biographical information on Bill Clinton including audio recordings of tapes and speeches.
Wyzant
Wyzant: Lyndon B. Johnson
Brief history of Lyndon B. Johnson's life and career in politics as well as links to a sample of audio recordings of speeches and speeches given by Johnson.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Tracy K. Smith, New u.s. Poet Laureate, Calls Poems Her 'Anchor'
A profile of Tracy K. Smith, the U.S. Poet Laureate for 2017. Includes an audio recording of her reading the poem "When Your Small Form Tumbled Into Me." (Published June 14, 2017)
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us. Printable Page
This article "Freedom: A History of US: Webisode 10, Segment 6: Hard Times," from Thirteen WNET New York, gives the reader an informative snapshot of the cause and impact of the Gilded Age depression of 1893. Students and teachers will...
NC State University
North Carolina State University: Pindaric and Horatian Odes
A list comparing the generic features of Pindaric odes and Horatian odes. Includes links to examples of an ode by Pindar and one by Horace, with audio recordings of each read in its original language.
Other
Baton Rouge Digital Archive of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library
A series of collections that reflect the content of the Baton Rouge Room Archive. Here you will find materials that reflect historical actions of local governments, businesses, residents and institutions of the City of Baton Rouge and...
Other
Sony Music Official Site
Includes information about Sony Music artists, press releases, audio and video, biographical information, contests, and more.
Other
Old Time Victrola Music: Blackface Minstrel Music
This website from Old Time Victrola Music, which sells victrola recordings of minstrel music from 1918, provides samples of several minstrel songs in Real Audio format.
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Abraham Sinkov Interview Excerpt: Move Into Cryptologic Field
This is the text and audio of an excerpt from Abraham Sinkov's interview describing how he came into the Signal Intelligence Service to begin a career in the new cryptologic field. It was recorded on April 20, 1930.
Other
African Australian Online Resource
This site offers dozens of reviews of African recordings, new and re-released. Well-known musicians Zap Mama and Femi Kuti, as well as up and coming ones, are reviewed. Links to individual Web sites and audio files are also featured here.
Library of Congress
Loc: How to Cite Digitized Primary Sources
Learn from the Library of Congress how to correctly cite the many electronic resources available in their collection. Films, legal documents, photographs, maps, sound recordings and other unusual cases are covered. Be sure you click on...
Swiss Educ
Swiss Educ: Frost, Robert
Unbelivably rich resource for audio files both of Frost reading his own work, and others talking about it. A great collection of photos as well.
Swiss Educ
Swiss Educ: Joyce, James 1882 1941
Useful multimedia about Joyce and his work. Site offers background, a timeline, audio introduction to "Dubliners" and the author reading aloud from "Ulysses."
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Tie It Up With Transition Words to Write a Story!
Read, write, and present a digital narrative with transition words to help us put the events in order! After modeling the instructional activity, groups of learners will write narratives to recount a short sequence of events, they will...
Library of Congress
Loc: Marching to a New Tune
Learn about John Philip Sousa's last composition, "The Library of Congress March," which was performed for the first time in 2003.
Curated OER
Weber & Fields: Audio and Pictures
Although the site is a commercial site devoted to selling vintage recordings, it has photos of both Lew Fields and Joe Weber, plus Real Audio clips of skits.