SCBEA



SCBEA - Back Up of Handout (in progress)

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Categories:

Productivity Tools - Universal File Formats - Office Suites (Other Than Microsoft Office) - Web 2.0 Collaboration Tools - Word Processing - Desktop Publishing - Spreadsheets - Databases - Presentations - Sharing PowerPoint Presentations

Communication Tools - Social Networks - Voice/Videoconferencing

Multimedia Tools - Media Players - Graphic Images - Audio and Music - Animations - Video - Screen Capture and Screencasting - Media Sharing

Teaching Tools - Survey and Form Tools - Quizzes and Tests - Classroom Activity Tools - Classroom Response Systems ...

Organization Tools - Visual Organizers - Bookmarking - Calendars and Scheduling Tools - Lists / Notetaking Tools - Personal Start Pages - Miscellaneous


 * PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS**


 * Universal File Formats**

CutePDF (//Portable Document Format//) http://www.cutepdf.com/ "Create professional quality PDF files from almost any printable document. ** FREE ** for personal, commercial, gov or edu use! No watermarks! No popup Web ads!"

Adobe Reader (free) http://get.adobe.com/reader/ This only lets you read PDF files, not create them.

Text Mining Tool - free converter of PDF, DOC, HTML and other files to text http://text-mining-tool.com/ “Text Mining Tool is a freeware program for extraction of text from files of the next types:pdf, doc, rtf, chm, html without need to have installed any other programs like Word, Arcrobat, etc. The beauty of the program is that it works, extremely simply, on almost all common forms of documents. That includes HTML web pages, both DOC and RTF document formats from Microsoft Word and others like Open Office, Windows Help files ending in CHM, and portable documents using PDF format.” **  OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice.org is a free productivity suite compatible with all major office suites. It includes word processor, spreadsheet, database, presentation and draw tools.
 * Office Suites Other Than Microsoft Office

Zoho http://www.zoho.com/ This is a suite of free online applications such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, database, wiki, note taker, organizer, project management, web conferencing, etc The site says “Our vision is to provide our customers (individuals, students, educators, non-profits, small and medium sized businesses) with the most comprehensive set of applications available anywhere …” IBM Lotus Symphony (free) http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa NeoOffice [Open Office for Mac] [|http://neooffice.org] or [|http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php <span]
 * Web 2.0 Collaboration Tools**

Google Tools

57 Useful Google Tools Scholars, Students, and Hobbyists http://www.collegeathome.com/blog/2008/06/18/57-useful-google-tools-youve-never-heard-of/

Google for Educators http://www.google.com/educators/index.html Office Live Workspace (Microsoft) http://officeliveoffers.com/Workspace/Homepage/default.htm " Access your documents from anywhere - and it’s free!" Classroom 2.0 http://www.classroom20.com/ This is a “social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative or transformative technologies in education.”

YouFig.com http://www.youfig.com/ They call themselves “Custom Collaboration Communities – Next Generation Enterprise & Social Collaboration.” The beta version is free.


 * Word Processing**

(Microsoft) Word Viewer "View, print and copy Word documents, even if you don't have Word installed." http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3657CE88-7CFA-457A-9AEC-F4F827F20CAC&DisplayLang=en

WRITER (OpenOffice) http://www.openoffice.org/ Is a powerful tool for creating professional documents, reports, newsletters, and brochures. You can easily integrate images and charts in documents, create everything from business letters to complete books with professional layouts, as well as create and publish Web content.

LetterPop (free and commercial accounts) [|http://letterpop.com/] Yeah Write http://www.yeahwrite.com/ Atlantis [|http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/]> “The Atlantis interface is entirely customizable: menus, toolbars, hot keys, colors and sounds can all be adjusted to suit your own requirements. What's more, Atlantis is a fully portable word processor. You can install Atlantis to a memory flash drive, and Atlantis will travel with you wherever you go.” DarkCopy [|http://darkcopy.com/]> “DarkCopy is for anyone who enjoys the simplicity of a typewriter, and wants to increase productivity by focusing only on writing. … Simply start typing and toggle to full-screen editing mode to clear your mind.” Writeboard [|http://www.writeboard.com/] style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> "Sharable, web-based documents that let you save every edit, roll back to any version, and easily compare changes. Use Writeboard to write solo or collaborate with others” PlotBot   [|http://www.plotbot.com/]>  “Plotbot is web-based screenwriting software. You can write your script with as many or as few people as you want—there's nothing to install, it's free, and it's easy to use!”  AbiWord (free version)   [|http://www.abisource.com/]  AbiWord Portable   [|http://portableapps.com/apps/office/abiword_portable]>  This is a “lightweight AbiWord word processor packaged as a portable app, so you can edit your documents on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.” GoogleDocs http://docs.google.com

YourDraft http://www.yourdraft.com

WriteWith http://writewith.com/

Zoho Writer http://writer.zoho.com/

WriteBoard [|http://writeboard.com/]

Buzzword http://www.adobe.com/acom/buzzword/ A free online word processor by Adobe. (It’s still in beta) It can be used for collaborative writing.


 * Desktop Publishing**

Scribus http://www.scribus.net/ Scribus is an open-source desktop publishing program

Page Plus SE http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/PagePlus/default.asp This is a free desktop publishing program. They also offer a commercial version.


 * Spreadsheets**

CALC (OpenOffice) http://www.openoffice.org/ Is a feature-packed spreadsheet which can turn boring numbers into eye-catching information. Calculate, analyse, and visually communicate your data quickly and easily. Use advanced spreadsheet functions and decision-making tools to perform sophisticated data analysis. Use built-in charting tools to generate impressive 2D and 3D charts.

Num Sum - Easy, Sharable Web Spreadsheets [|http://numsum.com/] Sheetster [|http://sheetster.com/index.jsp]
 * Databases**

BASE (OpenOffice) http://www.openoffice.org/ "The Database User Tools give you all the tools you need for day to day database work in a simple spreadsheet-like form. They support dBASE databases for simple applications, or any ODBC or JDBC compliant database for industrial strength database work. Blist – the world’s easiest database  http://www.blist.com/  "blist is the world’s easiest database. blist is all about discovering, sharing, publishing, distributing, and subscribing to data at home and at work. … blist makes it easy for anyone to create private or collaborative databases… …. A community of data and data templates allow you to get started right away, and keeps you from duplicating tedious data entry work wherever possible.” LazyBase http://lazybase.com/ “Lazybase allows anyone to design, create and share a database of whatever they like.” Glom http://www.glom.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page “With Glom you can design database systems - the database and the user interface.”


 * Presentations**

IMPRESS (OpenOffice) http://www.openoffice.org/ Is the "fastest, most powerful way to create effective multimedia presentations. Your presentations will truly stand out with special effects, animation and high-impact drawing tools."

nPowered Presenter   https://npoweredpresenter.com/ They have a free version or a 'plus' version for a fee.

Preezo __ [|http://preezo.com/] __ This is a “web application that gives you the power to create and share professional quality presentations over the web without software or plugins.”

Empressr http://www.empressr.com/ “The rich media presentation tool.” The personal version is free.

Spresent http://www.spresent.com/v2/ This is a “free Web-based alternative to PowerPoint. Create and edit high-quality Flash presentations online. You can send presentations via e-mail or publish on your web site or blog.”

Zoho Show http://show.zoho.com/jsp/zoho_login.jsp?serviceurl=%2FHome.do “The online tool for making powerful presentations. …. Zoho Show's pre-built themes, clipart and shapes coupled with features like drag-and-drop makes it an easy application to use.”


 * Sharing PowerPoint Presentations**

Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/ “SlideShare is the best way to share your presentations with the world. Let your ideas reach a broad audience. Share publicly or privately. Add audio to create a webinar.”

AuthorSTREAM http://www.authorstream.com/ You can also share your presentations to video, YouTube, iPods, blogs, websites, and to Flash. They also have a feature that allows you to do live presentations in which you use “… your favorite VoIP application like Skype or [by] using the good old conference call and voila, you are in a live web meeting.” Cool!

280 Slides http://280slides.com/ You can upload existing PowerPoint presentations or you can “Create beautiful presentations, access them from anywhere, and share them with the world. With 280 Slides, there's no software to download and nothing to pay for – and when you're done building your presentation you can share it any way you like.”


 * COMMUNICATION TOOLS**


 * Social Networks**

Ning [|http://www.ning.com]

Twitter [|http://www.twitter.com]


 * Voice/Videoconferencing**

Skype [|http://wwwlskype.com] Ustream http://www.ustream.tv/ Free, “live interactive broadcasting”

ooVoo http://www.oovoo.com/ “ooVoo is FREE video calling. See up to six friends, family or colleagues at the same time – with video quality that’s like being face-to-face in the same room!”

YakPack http://www.yackpack.com/education.html


 * MULTIMEDIA**


 * Media Players**

IrfanView http://www.irfanview.com/

VLC http://www.videolan.org/

Media Player Classic http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/

CoolPlayer http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/


 * Graphic Images**

GIMP http://www.gimp.org/ Like Photoshop

Picasa http://picasa.google.com/ “The easy way to find, edit, and share your photos”


 * Audio and Music**

Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ You can create and edit audio with this easy to use free tool.

Switch Audio File Conversion Software http://www.nch.com.au/switch/

Zinf http://www.zinf.org/ Audio player


 * Animations**

Blender http://www.blender.org/ “Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems…”


 * Video**


 * Screen Capture and Screencasting**

Gadwin PrintScreen http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/ A screen capture tool like SnagIt, but it’s free.


 * Online Media Sharing**

Jump Cut http://jumpcut.com/ “Once you register, you can start making movies right away by uploading your favorite video clips, photos and audio right from your computer or digital camera. … Our uploader will automatically create a movie from the files that you upload. Then you can open up our web-based editor to rearrange the clips and photos, add titles, effects and lots more.”


 * TEACHING TOOLS**


 * Survey & Form Tools**

Wufoo http://wufoo.com/ “Wufoo is an Internet application that helps anybody build amazing online forms.” There is a free version in addition to fee-based hosting services.

Survey Gizmo [Four levels; the basic account is free] http://www.surveygizmo.com/

Poll Daddy http://www.polldaddy.com/ With your free account from Poll Daddy you can now create surveys and polls for your website, blog and social network profiles.

Free Online Surveys http://freeonlinesurveys.com/


 * Quizzes and Tests**

ProProfs http://www.proprofs.com/ They offer free tools and resources. You can create and share quizzes, flashcards, bookmarking, blogs, discussion forums, wikis.

QuizMaster http://www.cybertrain.info/quizman/qmhome.html This is a free (donations requested) site where you can use existing quizzes or make your own. You can save the quizzes you make. You can also purchase a copy of the software to download and use offline.


 * Classroom Activity Tools**

Hot Potatoes http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/hot_pot.php “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.”

Puzzle Maker [|http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com] "Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more using your own word lists"

Quandry http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary.php This is an “application for creating Web-based Action Mazes. An Action Maze is a kind of interactive case study; the user is presented with a situation, and a number of choices as to a course of action to deal with it. On choosing one of the options, the resulting situation is then presented, again with a set of options.”

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives [|http://www.nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html]


 * Classroom Response Systems**

- see Jeanna... (not free)


 * ORGANIZATION TOOLS**


 * Visual Organizers**

Gliffy http://www.gliffy.com/ “With Gliffy online diagramming software, you can easily create professional-looking flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings, and more!”

Bubbl.us http://bubbl.us/ “[O nline] brainstorming made simple”

Cmap Tools http://cmap.ihmc.us/ This software “empowers users to construct, navigate, share, and criticize knowledge models represented as Concept Maps.”

Time Line Maker http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/timelines/ “This generator can be used to make time lines of up to 9 events of your choice.”

ThinkGraph http://www.thinkgraph.com/english/index.htm

VYM View Your Mind http://www.insilmaril.de/vym/#id49041

Belvedere http://belvedere.sourceforge.net/

Compendium http://compendium.open.ac.uk/institute/about.htm “ Compendium is a software tool providing a flexible visual interface for managing the connections between information and ideas.”

FreeMind http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page


 * Bookmarking**

Del.icio.us http://delicious.com/

Ma.gnolia http://ma.gnolia.com/

Blinklist http://www.blinklist.com/

Diigo http://www.diigo.com/ “Diigo provides a browser add-on that can really improve your research productivity. As you read on the web, instead of just bookmarking, you can highlight portions of web pages that are of particular interest to you. You can also attach sticky notes to specific parts of web pages.”

ProProfs http://www.proprofs.com/ They offer free tools and resources. You can create and share quizzes, flashcards, bookmarking, blogs, discussion forums, wikis.


 * Calendars and Scheduling Tools**

Backpack http://www.backpackit.com/
 * Organize your business and share information with your team.
 * To-dos, Announcements, Ideas, Files
 * Easily centralize & share information across your organization
 * Keep a Group Calendar Online
 * Keep everyone's schedule online with a color-coded calendar

Meeting Wizard [|http://www.meetingwizard.com] 'Use MeetingWizard to arrange and schedule meetings and other events."

Sunbird [Mozilla] http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/ This is a cross-platform calendar application.

Gantt Project http://ganttproject.biz/ “Gantt Project is a free and easy to use Gantt chart based project scheduling and management tool.” Start at the Learn about GanttProject at http://ganttproject.biz/learn.php

Assignment Tracker [Zoho] http://creator.zoho.com/public/showAppInfo?ownername=rajeshu&callbackUrl=assignment-tracker "A simple application to track and manage [your] assignments in an easy way. Add your Assignments and ToDo Lists. Update the current status of assignments."


 * Lists / Notetaking Tools**

Ta-da List http://www.tadalist.com/ “Ta-da List is the ** web's easiest to-do list ** tool. Make lists for yourself or share them with others. It couldn't be simpler.


 * Personal Start Pages**

iGoogle http://www.google.com/ig

Net Vibes http://www.netvibes.com/#General

PageFlakes http://www.pageflakes.com/

My Yahoo http://my.yahoo.com/

Windows Live / Live.com http://my.live.com/getstarted.aspx

Protopage http://www.protopage.com/

Webwag http://www.webwag.com/


 * Miscellaneous**

Book Base [Zoho] http://creator.zoho.com/public/showAppInfo?ownername=acohen843&callbackUrl=bookbase2009 "A simple database to keep track of your books"

Print What You Like [|http://www.printwhatyoulike.com] "Ever have trouble printing web pages due to ads and other web based-content you don't want printed? Print What You Like offers a free web page editor to fix this problem. Simply enter the URL of the page you want to print, edit or remove unwanted elements and then print."