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Recently Added:

4-13-11

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

1-13-11

1-4-11

www.glomaker.org Authoring tool for creating rich, interactive learning resources.

11-7-10
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/ Awesome Site with a ton of video tutorials

7-2-10 (Thanks Curtis Vance from Isothermal CC!)

Powerpoint Plex: Looking for another way to jazz up your powerpoint presentation? Powerpoint Plex will give you the ability to present slides in a different fashion.

Canvas for One Note: A new way to navigate your notebooks.

6-14-10

170+ Free Interactive Health tutorials

Added 6-7-10

Free Video Editing Software:
Video Spin
http://www.videospin.com/Redesign/

Added 4-21-10

Academic Integrity Information:

Added 3-24-10
Thanks to DI vonBriesen (www.tropicalteachers.com) for the following:

IrfanView: Image Viewing Utility
www.irfanview.com/

GIMP: Image Manipulation Program
www.gimp.org

Online Stopwatch:
http://www.online-stopwatch.com/

Online Dropbox:
www.dropbox.com/

PREZI- A New way to present:
http://prezi.com/

Online Mind Mapping:
http://bubbl.us/

Wordle – Word Cloud Fun:
www.wordle.net/

Flickr-Word Speller: (Create Words from Flickr Pics.)
http://metaatem.net/words/

Added 12-14-09 (Accessability-Sect. 508 Info)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Accessibility_Initiative

Open Source Accessability (Section 508) tools and sites:
http://www.oatsoft.org/Software/listing/Repository

Ohio State University’s Web Accessibility (Section 508) Center:
http://wac.osu.edu/resources/at.html

Additional Accessability (Section 508) Links:
(Videos on how to make your site accessible)
http://www.doit.wisc.edu/accessibility/video/screen_readers.asp
http://www.doit.wisc.edu/accessibility/video/

Firefox Plug-in that emulates as a screen reader
http://www.standards-schmandards.com/projects/fangs/

Free Accessibility (Section 508) testing tool:
http://www.cynthiasays.com/

More Sites:
http://accessibility4all.wikispaces.com/
http://wac.osu.edu/webaim/tables2.htm
http://jimthatcher.com/webcourse9.htm
http://jimthatcher.com/book2.htm
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria

Added 11-6-09

170+ Free Interactive Health tutorials

This site has over 170 government produced health tutorials on numerous procedures, diseases, conditions, and more.

Interactive Health Games & Demos:
This site has some really cool inteactive health games. Great for Anatomy and Physiology

www.slideworld.org
This site has a lot of medical slideshows donated by various people. “SlideWorld is a web resource designed to facilitate educational process of medical professionals. It is a PowerPoint Search Engine that enables you to search more than 7 million presentations (.ppt) on medical related content. The site is open to anyone and is free of cost. Academic faculties and clinicians in practice from worldwide have contributed to the web portal.” (Blogspot)

http://ocw.jhsph.edu/
Johns Hopkins Medical School Open Coursesware, Site provides access to the school’s most popular courses.

Health Sciences Online Search Engine:
HSO is the first website to deliver authoritative, comprehensive, free, and ad-free health sciences knowledge.
Search and browse any health sciences topic from over 50,000 courses, references, guidelines, and other learning resources.
Materials are selected from accredited educational sources including universities, governments, and professional societies, by HSO staff.

Medical Videos:
This site has a variety of medical videos to choose from.

Anatomy Pictures:
Anatomy pictures from Stanford School of Medicine.

http://www.learnerstv.com/
This is a comprehensive site providing Video lectures, LiveOnline Tests, Audio lectures etc in the fields of Biology, Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics,Computer Science,Engineering,Medicine, Management and Accounting, Dentistry etc FREE to its visitors… This site provides free video and audio lectures of whole courses conducted by faculty from reputed universities around the world. Science Animations provide students with fun and innovative ways of learning. Free live timed online tests with instant feedback and explanations will help you refine your test taking skills. Most of the materials offered are licensed by the respective institutes under a Creative Commons License.

Medical Animation Library:
Over 100 Medical Animations

King Kong List for Free Medical Online Resources:
Here is a juicy collection of free medical resources, games and courses (still under construction!) that you might want to use for your personal learning, or embed in your course/training/program as supplementary, or core resources to enrich the students’ learning experiences.

Free Learning Tool for Every Learning Problem:
Over 150 free tools for nearly every thing you can think about.

eLearning Learning:
e-Learning Blog with a tremendous amount of information and free things

Added 11-2-09
Animation Tool: http://goanimate.com/

Added 10-20-09
e-Book on M-Learning: http://ro.uow.edu.au/newtech/

Added 10-22-09
Powerpoint and twitter audience engagement: http://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/
Poll your audience: www.polleverywhere.com
Aviary Audio Editing Software & More: http://aviary.com/flash/aviary/index.aspx?tid=6&Myna# or http://aviary.com
Screengrab: Screen Capture ad-in for Firefox: www.screengrab.org
Firefox Ad-ins: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10367
Photo Editing Tool: www.picnik.com
Citation and Research Tool: www.zotero.org
Convert your Powerpoint to Flash: www.ispringsolutions.com
Mypodcast: www.mypodcast.com
Media Converter: www.mediaconverter.org

Added 10-23-09
Live Stream: www.livestream.com

Ongoing List:

Rubrics & Quality Assessment Information:
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
http://www.uen.org/rubric/
http://www.rubrics4teachers.com/
http://landmark-project.com/rubric_builder/index.php
http://kb.blackboard.com/download/attachments/25374365/2009_Blackboard_Exemplary_Course_Program_Rubric_final.doc
http://www.humboldt.edu/~aof/aof.htm

Blackboard Exemplary Course Program:
http://communities.blackboard.com/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_287_1

More Tools:
http://www.rpi.edu/coursedevelopers/InstructionalTools/IT_index.htm

Net Meeting / Screen Sharing:
Yugma www.yugma.com
Windows Live www.windowslive.com
DimDim: www.dimdim.com
Elluminate: www.elluminate.com (3 for free)
Adobe Connect: http://www.adobe.com/acom/connectnow/

Collaboration: Personal Learning Networks
What are you doing? www.twitter.com
Google Docs: www.google.com
Windows Live: www.windowslive.com (Sky drive)
Wiggio: www.wiggio.com/

Powerpoint Slide Sharing:
http://www.slideshare.net/
http://www.authorstream.com

Animation tool:
Go Animate http://goanimate.com/

Convert Powerpoint to Flash:
www.ispringsolutions.com

SOUND Editing Software:
Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Myna: www.aviary.com
Mypodcast: www.mypodcast.com

Information for ALL disciplines.
http://www.free.ed.gov/

Video / Screen recording software:
http://www.jingproject.com/
Jing: http://www.jingproject.com/
Blueberry: http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/BBFlashBack_FreePlayer.aspx
Wink: http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
ScreenToaster: –http://www.screentoaster.com/
Faststone: http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm
CamStudio: http://camstudio.org/
Auto Screen Recorder: http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/autoscreenrecorder_free.htm
Screenr: http://screenr.com/ (Developed by the people from Articulate!)
Screengrab: www.screengrab.org

Free Video Editing Software:
Video Spin
http://www.videospin.com/Redesign/

Convert Videos to any format including Converting Youtube Videos:
www.mediaconverter.org

Free Development Software:
http://www.udutu.com/
www.glomaker.org Authoring tool for creating rich, interactive learning resources.

Flicker:
www.flickr.com

Course Capture Software (Free to Educational Institutions)
Panopto (www.panopto.com)
Recorded Webinar Demo

Stream your class:
www.ustream.tv
www.mebeam.com
www.stickam.com
www.livestream.com

Live Class Polling:
http://www.polleverywhere.com/
http://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/

Information on Free Media:
Cogdogroo

Misc. Tools:

Online Stopwatch:
http://www.online-stopwatch.com/

Online Dropbox:
www.dropbox.com/

Citation and Research Tools:
www.zotero.org

100+ places to learn online for FREE:
Mission to Learn

http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/
Free courses for anyone!

e-Book on M-Learning:
http://ro.uow.edu.au/newtech/

Image editing and animation tool:
http://a.viary.com/home
http://www.voki.com/
www.picnik.com
http://www.gimp.org/
http://www.irfanview.com/

Voice Thread:
http://www.utterli.com/ – Great site to use for posting daily video logs or incorporating video discussion boards.

Student and Teacher Resources:

MERLOT: (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning & Online Teaching)
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

Classroom 2.0:
http://www.classroom20.com/
This is an awesome site with resources and information on tons of Web 2.o information.

Text Replacement Tool to reduce typing:
Short Keys
I use this tool extensively. It works great for repetitive questions, or anytime you have to enter the same text over and over again.

CoComment
Use this tool to create conversations on websites that don’t have this feature. Your online classes could use this to discuss information on different web pages and you can easily keep track of it.