Free software tools to expedite learning

1. Using Social Networking & Other Free Software

4. Skypecasts https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/create Up to 100 people! https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/create

5. Damaka http://www.damaka.com/ Personalize

6. Yugma https://www.yugma.com/index.php

7. del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/

8. http://www.diigo.com/

9. http://www.slideshare.net/ http://www.slideshare.net/capelladoc/croatia-84682

10. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows

11. Koyote - IPOD Video Converter For Free http://www.koyotesoft.com/indexEn.html

12. http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/

13. FreeMind – free Mind Mapping software http://freemind.sourceforge.net It is used to generate, visualize, structure and classify ideas, and as an aid in planning, organization, problem solving, and decision making.

14. http://www.bubbl.us/

15. http://mapul.com/

16. http://blogsearch.google.com/

17. Google Alerts http://www.google.com/alerts Bonus Slide

18. http://www.technorati.com/search/

19. Blog Search http://search.blogger.com

20. Create and share spreadsheets online http://sheet.zoho.com

22. Zoho Office Suite http://www.zoho.com/

23. Google Docs & Spreadsheets

24. Google Apps http://www.google.com/a/edu/

25. gOFFICE – Web Office Suite http://www.goffice.com/

26. CutePDF Writer http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

27. MWSnap – Screen capturing tool http://www.snapfiles.com/get/mwsnap.html

28. http://feedblitz.com/ Email, Skype, AIM and Twitter delivery. Automatically generated HTML pages and RSS feeds. Power email newsletters with or without a blog.

29. flickr http://www.flickr.com/

30. Picasa http://picasa.google.com/ Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you: Locate and organize all the photos on your computer. Edit and add effects to your photos with a few simple clicks. Share your photos with others through email, prints, and on the web : it’s fast, easy and free.

31. SplashCast http://splashcastmedia.com/

32. Video Paper Builder 3 http://vpb.concord.org/

33. Camstudio http://www.camstudio.org/

34. Socialtext http://www.socialtext.com/

35. thinkfree – Online Collaboration http://www.thinkfree.com

36. iTeamwork http://www.iteamwork.com/

37. Jotlet – Online Calendar http://www.jotlet.net/

38. BlueTie – free email, calendaring, & file sharing http://www.bluetie.com/

39. Wordsource – Online Dictionary & Thesaurus http://www.word.sc/

40. Blender - Open Source Software for 3D modeling http://www.blender.org/ Blender is the Open Source Software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation, and playback. Blender allows students and teachers to animate 3D computer graphics.

41. Dia – a ‘Visio’ inspired program http://live.gnome.org/Dia It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams.

42. ajaxSketch – graphic editor http://us.ajax13.com/en/ajaxsketch/

43. gliffy – Web browser diagramming http://www.gliffy.com/

44. Nvu – Web authoring for Windows, Macs, & Linux http://www.nvu.com/index.php

46. Core FTP LE http://www.coreftp.com/

47. Hot Potatoes http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web.

48. http://courselab.com/

49. http://polldaddy.com/ What is PollDaddy? PollDaddy is an online tool, which allows you to create free polls and place them on your website, blog, MySpace, hi5, Friendster or Xanga account or anywhere online that you can paste a bit of JavaScript or Flash!

50. Bonus Resource www.doodle.ch Doodle

51. Boolify http://www.boolify.org/index.php

52. Clusty Search Engine http://clusty.com/

53. Clustered Results

54. Kartoo Search Engine Kartoo is a visual meta search engine, "with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, Kartoo launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm." Or simply put, it puts its results on an interactive, visual map for you to play with. Kartoo is a metacrawler/metasearch engine, which means that it does not come up with its own results, but aggregates the results of many other search engines. http://www.kartoo.com

55. Kartoo Search Results

56. Scribus – Desktop Publishing http://www.scribus.net/ Scribus is a professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.

57. New Jour http://library.georgetown.edu/newjour/

58. Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=home

59. Role and Function of Theory in Online Education Development and Delivery Download the entire book Edited by Terry Anderson Series: Issues in Distance Education May 2008 Softcover 9978-1-897425-08-4 (SC) $39.95 May 2008 E-Book 978-1-897425-07-7 (e-book) http://www.aupress.ca/books/Terry_Anderson.php

60. myUdutu http://www.udutu.com/products.html myUdutu™ Moodle module The myUdutu Course Authoring Module for Moodle allows you to easily insert your courses myUdutu into your running Moodle installation.