The Conversation is a non-profit, charity, independent news outfit that sources its content from academic sources and researchers to help you keep up to date with the world away from the noise of the mainstream media. Take a look at theconversation.com.
G Suite for Education includes unlimited storage on Google Drive and access to Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Classroom, Sites, Gmail and much more. You can access it using any browser on a desktop computer or mobile device. The beauty of G Suite is that it’s free to use, everything is saved online to Google’s servers and can be edited by multiple users simultaneously.
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CrashCourse create and share easy to follow topic videos to help you learn a specific subject. With over a BILLION views across their YouTube channel and just shy of 10 MILLION subscribers, they regularly post new content including videos with leading lecturers from their respective field.
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Open Culture is a website that centralises and curates the best, free educational and cultural media from across the internet to make it easier for everyone to find.
Oxford Podcasts is home to over 9000 public lectures, teaching material, interviews and a lot more. Content is regularly added to the site including public lectures covering the environmental and scientific challenges of the 21st century.
It’s not all audio though, they also have video and written content too. You can download the complete First Folio of William Shakespeare, with its original spelling from 1623, this includes The Tempest and A Midsommer Nights Dreame.
BBC Sounds is a streaming media app that hosts thousands of podcasts, live radio and archived radio shows. Podcasts range from comedy to educational to sport.
BBC Podcasts started back in 2004 and since then have gone from strength to strength. Each month around 63 million podcasts are downloaded from the BBC, with 26 million of those being just by the UK!
Previously you had to use either a BBC Podcasts app or BBC iPlayer Radio app but now everything is in one app, BBC Sounds. This includes live radio, catch-up radio and every BBC podcast available.
MyBib is a simple citation tool that allows you to store references for future.
MyBib is a one-stop shop for all your citation needs. It’s clean, simple and very intuitive to use. It stands for My Bibliography.
While Cite This For Me is one of the best-known citation tools, I found MyBib so much easier to use, it comes with some nice extra features and it’s not covered in ads.
The best bit? It’s 100% free!
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Cite This For Me allows you to automatically create website citations at the click of a button.
Cite This For Me is a citation tool to help you generate references for research in your writing.
The basic functions of this tool are free to use and doesn’t take too long to get used to.
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