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Using Social Networking &
Other Free Software
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Why Use Social Networking?
•Cost-effective•Time-saving•Collaborative•Faster•Available•Generally Free
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www.skype.com
•Free Voice Over Internet Protocol
•Video Conferencing
•Public Chats
•File Transfers
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Skypecasts
https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/create
Up to 100 people!
https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/create
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Damaka
http://www.damaka.com/
Personalize
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Yugma
https://www.yugma.com/index.php
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del.icio.us
http://del.icio.us/
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http://www.diigo.com/
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http://www.slideshare.net/ http://www.slideshare.net/capelladoc/croatia-84682
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http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows
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Koyote - IPOD Video Converter For Free
http://www.koyotesoft.com/indexEn.html
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http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/
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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.
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http://www.bubbl.us/
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http://mapul.com/
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http://blogsearch.google.com/
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Google Alerts
http://www.google.com/alerts
Bonus Slide
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http://www.technorati.com/search/
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Blog Search
http://search.blogger.com
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Create and share spreadsheets online
http://sheet.zoho.com
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Zoho Office Suite
http://www.zoho.com/
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Google Docs & Spreadsheets
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Google Apps
http://www.google.com/a/edu/
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gOFFICE – Web Office Suite
http://www.goffice.com/
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CutePDF Writer
http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
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MWSnap – Screen capturing tool
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/mwsnap.html
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http://feedblitz.com/
Email, Skype, AIM and Twitter delivery. Automatically generated HTML pages and RSS feeds. Power email newsletters with or without a blog.
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flickr
http://www.flickr.com/
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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.
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SplashCast
http://splashcastmedia.com/
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Video Paper Builder 3
http://vpb.concord.org/
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Camstudio
http://www.camstudio.org/
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Socialtext
http://www.socialtext.com/
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thinkfree – Online Collaboration
http://www.thinkfree.com
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iTeamwork
http://www.iteamwork.com/
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Jotlet – Online Calendar
http://www.jotlet.net/
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BlueTie – free email, calendaring, & file sharing
http://www.bluetie.com/
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Wordsource – Online Dictionary & Thesaurus
http://www.word.sc/
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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.
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Dia – a ‘Visio’ inspired program
http://live.gnome.org/Dia
It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams.
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ajaxSketch – graphic editor
http://us.ajax13.com/en/ajaxsketch/
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gliffy – Web browser diagramming
http://www.gliffy.com/
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Nvu – Web authoring for Windows, Macs, & Linux
http://www.nvu.com/index.php
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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
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Core FTP LE
http://www.coreftp.com/
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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.
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http://courselab.com/
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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!
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Bonus Resource
www.doodle.ch
Doodle
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Boolify
http://www.boolify.org/index.php
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Clusty Search Engine
http://clusty.com/
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Clustered Results
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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
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Kartoo Search Results
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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.
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New Jourhttp://library.georgetown.edu/newjour/
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Directory of Open Access Journalshttp://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=home
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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
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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.
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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