K12 students and teachers are creating unprecedented opportunities for inquiry-based learning by expanding the geographic boundaries of their classrooms - - virtually and cost effectively.

Digital Library/Media Sources for the K20 Community

National Science Digital Library

The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) was created by the National Science Foundation to provide organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education.

The Library of Congress

The Library of Congress has a host of interactive educational materials online and provides professional development services for educators over Internet2 through videoconferencing.

WGBH Teacher’s Domain

Teachers’ Domain is an online library of more than 1,000 free media resources from the best in public television. These classroom resources, featuring media from NOVA, Frontline, Design Squad, American Experience, and other public broadcasting and content partners are easy to use and correlate to state and national standards. Teachers’ Domain resources include video and audio segments, Flash interactives, images, documents, lesson plans for teachers, and student-oriented activities. Once you register, you can personalize the site using “My Folders” and “My Groups” to save your favorite resources into a folder and share them with your colleagues or students.

Project Neptune

Project NEPTUNE offers rich educational opportunities for learners of all ages. Through their website, users can find real-time data, images and video from very dynamic earth-ocean systems.

C-SPAN Video Library

C-SPAN has digitized its entire holdings from 1998 to the present and allows educators and researchers to access this collection via the Internet2 Network. The video library is searchable using a extensive number of fields such as topic, speaker, organization, committee, keywords and has an optimized word searching tool that includes abstracts and closed captioning text.

SCETI

The University of Pennsylvania has made over 12,000 images from various collections of rare books, manuscripts, papyri, photographs and sheet music are available over the network through their SCETI Project.

MAGPI Newsletters and Mailing Lists

One of the easiest ways to stay up-to-date on MAGPI-related activities is to subscribe to our quarterly e-Newsletter and/or community-specific mailing lists. To sign up, click here.

MAGPI Program Podcast Library

In MAGPI’s Podcast Library in the University of Pennsylvania iTunes U Directory, you will find select archived MAGPI educational videoconferences and multimedia presentations created by our members and partners. To view or download a podcast, you must download iTunes software. To find MAGPI’s Podcasts, go the UPenn iTunes Directory and click on “MAGPI.”

MAGPI Videoconference Testing Schedule

MAGPI Videoconferencing Testing Schedule

(Effective Jan. 2013 - June 2013 )

To participate in any MAGPI-offered program, sites must conduct a mandatory videoconference verification test with MAGPI Multimedia Services. If a site does not test for any reason without notifying MAGPI, that site may be restricted from joining a program and, subsequently, the reserved slot may be given to another school.

Open testing is offered to participants to ensure ample opportunity to conduct videoconference verification testing.

Open Testing Schedule

Wednesdays from 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Eastern) 18h - 20h (GMT) 

Fridays from 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Eastern) 14h - 16h (GMT)

If your site cannot test during these times, please contact MAGPI Multimedia Services

Testing Instructions

1. Direct Dial: 1234@216.27.100.165

If your site is unable to dial 1234@216.27.100.165 directly...

  • Dial 216.27.100.165
  • Using the touch-tone keypad, enter the conference code 1234#

2. Check In: Once connected, check in with the MAGPI Technician with the following information to confirm completion of your site's test.

  • School Name
  • Program Name
  • Program Date

Questions & Technical Support

John Fafalios

MAGPI Mulitmedia Services Engineer

Email: Open Testing Technical Support (fafalios@magpi.net)

Skype IM: magpitech (perferred)

Phone: 215-573-8583

New to MAGPI and Internet2? Here’s how to get started…

Getting connectivity to high-bandwidth networks is only the first step. Familiarizing yourself with the immense resources on these networks and how to begin building research and education collaborations is the bigger (and in many ways more important) undertaking. Through our Getting Started with MAGPI and Internet2 Guide you will learn how to begin navigating through this rich wealth of resources.