using social networking & other free software

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Using Social Networking &

Other Free Software


Why Use Social Networking?

•Cost-effective•Time-saving•Collaborative•Faster•Available•Generally Free


www.skype.com

•Free Voice Over Internet Protocol

•Video Conferencing

•Public Chats

•File Transfers


Skypecasts

https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/create

Up to 100 people!

https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/create


Damaka

http://www.damaka.com/

Personalize


Yugma

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


del.icio.us

http://del.icio.us/


http://www.diigo.com/


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


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


Koyote - IPOD Video Converter For Free

http://www.koyotesoft.com/indexEn.html


http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/


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.


http://www.bubbl.us/


http://mapul.com/


http://blogsearch.google.com/


Google Alerts

http://www.google.com/alerts

Bonus Slide


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


Blog Search

http://search.blogger.com


Create and share spreadsheets online

http://sheet.zoho.com


Zoho Office Suite

http://www.zoho.com/


Google Docs & Spreadsheets


Google Apps

http://www.google.com/a/edu/


gOFFICE – Web Office Suite

http://www.goffice.com/


CutePDF Writer

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


MWSnap – Screen capturing tool

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/mwsnap.html


http://feedblitz.com/

Email, Skype, AIM and Twitter delivery. Automatically generated HTML pages and RSS feeds. Power email newsletters with or without a blog.


flickr

http://www.flickr.com/


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.


SplashCast

http://splashcastmedia.com/


Video Paper Builder 3

http://vpb.concord.org/


Camstudio

http://www.camstudio.org/


Socialtext

http://www.socialtext.com/


thinkfree – Online Collaboration

http://www.thinkfree.com


iTeamwork

http://www.iteamwork.com/


Jotlet – Online Calendar

http://www.jotlet.net/


BlueTie – free email, calendaring, & file sharing

http://www.bluetie.com/


Wordsource – Online Dictionary & Thesaurus

http://www.word.sc/


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.


Dia – a ‘Visio’ inspired program

http://live.gnome.org/Dia

It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams.


ajaxSketch – graphic editor

http://us.ajax13.com/en/ajaxsketch/


gliffy – Web browser diagramming

http://www.gliffy.com/


Nvu – Web authoring for Windows, Macs, & Linux

http://www.nvu.com/index.php


moodle

http://moodle.org/

•Moodle is a course management system

•can be downloaded and used on any computer

•can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student university

•needs to be installed on a server somewhere


Core FTP LE

http://www.coreftp.com/


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.


http://courselab.com/


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!


Bonus Resource

www.doodle.ch

Doodle


Boolify

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


Clusty Search Engine

http://clusty.com/


Clustered Results


Kartoo Search EngineKartoo 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


Kartoo Search Results


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.


New Jourhttp://library.georgetown.edu/newjour/


Directory of Open Access Journalshttp://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=home


Role and Function of Theory in Online Education Development and Delivery

Download the entire book Edited by Terry AndersonSeries: Issues in Distance EducationMay 2008Softcover9978-1-897425-08-4 (SC)$39.95May 2008E-Book978-1-897425-07-7 (e-book) http://www.aupress.ca/books/Terry_Anderson.php


myUdutuhttp://www.udutu.com/products.html

myUdutu™ Moodle moduleThe myUdutu Course Authoring Module for Moodle allows you to easily insert your courses myUdutu into your running Moodle installation.


Do this now:1. Create a http://del.icio.us account; enter a search tag;

take a Quick Tour of the Toolbar http://del.icio.us/help/firefox/bookmarks/quicktour

2. Create a Skype account; transfer a file with another Learner

3. Create a Damaka account

4. Create a Slideshare account; search for topic of your choice; view it or download it

5. Create a Google Alert http://www.google.com/alerts

6. Subscribe to an Open Source Journal

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