Site helps locate educational resources.

WE'VE HEARD A LOT ABOUT UNIVERSITY podcasts, OpenCourseWare, video lectures, and more, but how can you find out who is doing what? Wynn Williamson has come up with a unique answer with a web interface that lists online academic materials from around the world, using interactive Google Maps. Williamson, a New Yorker currently living in Spain, developed the tool as part of his new "Stingy Scholar" blog (http:// stingyscholar.blogspot.com).

"I created the map interface to add a twist to a basic listing of universities with open coursewares and free resources," Williamson says.

Users can zoom in on a country or region, and click on one of the location "pins" to see a brief description of what is offered. They then can click on the highlighted link in the description to go the source page.

"I wanted to keep track of free education materials for my personal reference," Williamson says, but it soon grew into more than that. His correspondence with bloggers at Textbook Revolution (http://textbookrevolution.org) and Learn Out Loud (www.learnoutloud.com) brought more visitors to his site. "It made me realize that there was a whole community really excited about these materials," he says.

Materials from nearly 80 different universities and educational collections around the world are currently listed, including the United States, Canada, England, Germany, Switzerland, France, Taiwan, Vietnam, Japan, and Australia.

Check it out at www.wayfaring.com/ maps/show/10585.--T.G.