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List of great freeware for the classroom
Alice programming
Intro to computer programming language
Artrage starter edition
Create art
Audacity
Audio editor, create and edit music
Blender
Animation software
Camstudio
Create screen casts and tutorials (No Mac. Version)
Celestia
Planetarium
Cutewriter - pdf maker
Create pdfs of any on-screen document – (No Mac. Version)
Cyber Safety ·
A packet of materials for teachers & parents from the federal government.
Digital Storytelling ·
PhotoStory 3, lessons plans and storyboard handout.
e-Beam ·
Interactive whiteboard with conferencing.
Geogebra
Hands-on visual – Geometry and Algebra, graphing calculator
Gimp
Advanced photo editor and art creator – like PhotoShop
Google
Cloud Connect - with a push of a button, you can upload and sync your Microsoft documents with your Google Account. Keep a backup in the clouds and sync documents between computers. Two gigs of storage space provided by Google.
· Sketchup - AutoCAD, drafting, design interiors and exteriors
· Picasa - Edit & share photos, create slideshows
· Google Earth—map based software, 3D
Hot Potatoes
· 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 freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is not open-source. It works with Moodle.
Inkscape
Drawing program for both Mac and PC, like Adobe illustrator, vector-based.
Jahshaka, Jumpcut, Jaycut, Virtualdub
Free video editors
Lego Designer
This is LEGO Digital Designer. The program that lets you build with LEGO bricks on your computer.
Lightworks
Professional video editing software--for free!
Microsoft - No Mac Version Available
· Add-ins for Scientists – This is a Microsoft Link to multiple resources - Collecting and analyzing data and then authoring, publishing, and preserving information are essential components researchers' daily work. At each phase, Microsoft technologies play a fundamental role. The Microsoft External Research vision is to support the scholarly communications lifecycle with software and services so that data and information flow in a coordinated and seamless fashion.
· Article Authoring Add-in - This add-in enables reading and writing of XML-based documents in the format used by the National Library of Medicine for archiving scientific articles.
· Chemistry Add-in - Empowering students, teachers, and chemists to easily author documents in the language of chemistry is at the heart of the Chemistry Add-in for Word. Every discipline has its own language. And being able to communicate and collaborate in a discipline-specific language is essential to scientific research, especially in an environment characterized by staggering volumes of data. In chemistry, not only is there a specific language, but a specific language with specific symbols and conventions. By giving these symbols meaning, the Chemistry Add-in for Word is also enabling chemistry documents to easily convey this meaning across technologies and file formats.
· Computational biology - Computational biology tools from Microsoft Research's eScience group: PhyloD (Phylogeny-Based Association Analysis), Epitope Prediction, HLA Assignment, HLA Completion.
· Creative Commons - This add-in enables you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document that you create using Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, or Microsoft Office Excel. With a Creative Commons license, authors can express their intentions regarding how their works may be used by others. The add-in downloads the Creative Commons license you designate from the Creative Commons Web site and inserts it directly into your creative work. To learn more about Creative Commons, please visit its web site, www.creativecommons.org. To learn more about the choices among the Creative Commons licenses, see http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/meet-the-licenses. Microsoft Office productivity applications are the most widely used personal productivity applications in the world, and Microsoft’s goal is to enhance the user’s experience with those applications. Empowering Microsoft Office users to express their intentions through Creative Commons licenses is another way Microsoft enables users around the world to exercise their creative freedom while being clear about the rights granted to users of a creative work. In the past, it has not always been easy or obvious to understand the intentions of some authors or artists regarding distribution or use of their intellectual creations.
· Flashcards – (this is an internet link not a download) Flashcards is a Silverlight web application where you can create, share, and study online flashcards. Find a deck in the community, or create your own. Decks can have up to 300 cards, and each card can have any combination of text, image, and sound on the front and the back. Start with Review mode if you don't know the content at all. Otherwise, skip ahead to Study or Type It In modes. Study mode is based on the honor system, and Type It In checks the correct answer with what you typed in. Want a challenge? Try swapping fronts and backs then studying again.
· Interactive Classroom - The Microsoft Interactive Classroom Add-in for PowerPoint 2007 & 2010 and OneNote 2007 & 2010 bridges lessons delivered in PowerPoint to students using OneNote in 1:1 classroom settings, or lecture environments. It enhances the learning experience by enabling educators to insert polling questions (multiple choice, yes/no, or true/false) into their presentations when creating lessons, increases student engagement by allowing students to answer in-class polls, and supports agile teaching practices through the sharing of ink annotations and slides within the students OneNote Notebook.
· Kodu - Kodu is a new visual programming language made specifically for creating games. It is designed to be accessible for children and enjoyable for anyone. The visual nature of the language allows for rapid design iteration using only an Xbox game controller for input (mouse/keyboard input is also supported).
· Learning Essentials--With Learning Essentials 2.0 for Microsoft Office, educators and students can get started, stay organized, and successfully complete high-quality work using the templates and tutorials provided. Educators can also create effective instructional resources, complete administrative tasks, and implement new teaching strategies.
· Math Worksheet - Do you spend a lot of time searching for worksheets with practice problems to give your students? Now you can easily create your own in just a few seconds with the Math Worksheet Generator. This is a tool that generates multiple math problems based on a sample, and then creates a worksheet that you can distribute. By analyzing the math problem you provide, or one of the built-in samples, the generator determines the structure of the expression and provides similar problems. We tack on an answer sheet too.
· Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 in the classroom - From basic math to pre-calculus, Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 helps you visualize and see mathematical concepts as you’ve never seen them before.
· Microsoft Mathematics Add - in for Word and OneNote - Microsoft Mathematics Add-in for Word and OneNote makes it easy to plot graphs in 2D and 3D, calculate numerical results, solve equations or inequalities, and simplify algebraic expressions in your Word documents and OneNote notebooks.
· Moodle Add-in - Uploading files to Moodle has never been easier. The Office Add-in for Moodle (OAM) is an add-in for Microsoft Office (versions 2003, 2007 and 2010) that allows teachers to open and save Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents to a Moodle website. Today, teachers who use Office and Moodle have to switch back and forth between their web browser and Office applications. With the OAM, teachers can create, open, edit, and save Moodle documents from within the Office applications. You no longer need to use your web browser when working with Office documents stored in Moodle.
· Mouse Mischief--Try a little Mischief. Mouse Mischief integrates into Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, letting you insert questions, polls, and drawing activity slides into your lessons. Works on Vista/Windows 7 and Office 2007 or 2010. Students can actively participate in these lessons by using their own mice to click, circle, cross out, or draw answers on the screen.
· Songsmith—similar to garageband. Students can create their own music and loops and background soundtracks.
· Sharedview—share your computer screen with up to 15 other users. Others can share their screen with you too.
· Visual Studio - Get everything you need to start building standards-friendly web applications with the free version of Visual Studio using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. Visual Web Developer 2010 Express is a full-featured web development editor for working with web standards, JavaScript, and ASP.NET. This simple, streamlined installer will get your development machine ready to go. In addition, you’ll get the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform including frameworks, web server and database.
· XNA Game Studio - Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.1 makes it easier than ever to create great video games for Windows-based PCs, Xbox 360 consoles (with an active premium XNA Creators Club subscription), and Zune digital media players.
Photo Story 3
Create slideshows and add music (No Mac. Version)
Scratch animation
Intro to computer programming, animation & gaming
Stellarium
Planetarium
Super media converter ·
Convert music, videos or other files from one format to another (No Mac Version)
TuxPaint
Drawing program for both Mac and PC, very kid friendly
Undelete plus
Recover deleted files from your computer, flash drive or camera; pc only
Web Page Creators
Nvu & Kompozer - Create web pages, html editor (Kompozer, No Mac. Version)
Windows MovieMaker
Edit movies (No Mac. Version), both the Live version –in the Essentials and version 6 for Vista and Windows 7
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Intro to computer programming language
Artrage starter edition
Create art
Audacity
Audio editor, create and edit music
Blender
Animation software
Camstudio
Create screen casts and tutorials (No Mac. Version)
Celestia
Planetarium
Cutewriter - pdf maker
Create pdfs of any on-screen document – (No Mac. Version)
Cyber Safety ·
A packet of materials for teachers & parents from the federal government.
Digital Storytelling ·
PhotoStory 3, lessons plans and storyboard handout.
e-Beam ·
Interactive whiteboard with conferencing.
Geogebra
Hands-on visual – Geometry and Algebra, graphing calculator
Gimp
Advanced photo editor and art creator – like PhotoShop
Cloud Connect - with a push of a button, you can upload and sync your Microsoft documents with your Google Account. Keep a backup in the clouds and sync documents between computers. Two gigs of storage space provided by Google.
· Sketchup - AutoCAD, drafting, design interiors and exteriors
· Picasa - Edit & share photos, create slideshows
· Google Earth—map based software, 3D
Hot Potatoes
· 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 freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is not open-source. It works with Moodle.
Inkscape
Drawing program for both Mac and PC, like Adobe illustrator, vector-based.
Jahshaka, Jumpcut, Jaycut, Virtualdub
Free video editors
Lego Designer
This is LEGO Digital Designer. The program that lets you build with LEGO bricks on your computer.
Lightworks
Professional video editing software--for free!
Microsoft - No Mac Version Available
· Add-ins for Scientists – This is a Microsoft Link to multiple resources - Collecting and analyzing data and then authoring, publishing, and preserving information are essential components researchers' daily work. At each phase, Microsoft technologies play a fundamental role. The Microsoft External Research vision is to support the scholarly communications lifecycle with software and services so that data and information flow in a coordinated and seamless fashion.
· Article Authoring Add-in - This add-in enables reading and writing of XML-based documents in the format used by the National Library of Medicine for archiving scientific articles.
· Chemistry Add-in - Empowering students, teachers, and chemists to easily author documents in the language of chemistry is at the heart of the Chemistry Add-in for Word. Every discipline has its own language. And being able to communicate and collaborate in a discipline-specific language is essential to scientific research, especially in an environment characterized by staggering volumes of data. In chemistry, not only is there a specific language, but a specific language with specific symbols and conventions. By giving these symbols meaning, the Chemistry Add-in for Word is also enabling chemistry documents to easily convey this meaning across technologies and file formats.
· Computational biology - Computational biology tools from Microsoft Research's eScience group: PhyloD (Phylogeny-Based Association Analysis), Epitope Prediction, HLA Assignment, HLA Completion.
· Creative Commons - This add-in enables you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document that you create using Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, or Microsoft Office Excel. With a Creative Commons license, authors can express their intentions regarding how their works may be used by others. The add-in downloads the Creative Commons license you designate from the Creative Commons Web site and inserts it directly into your creative work. To learn more about Creative Commons, please visit its web site, www.creativecommons.org. To learn more about the choices among the Creative Commons licenses, see http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/meet-the-licenses. Microsoft Office productivity applications are the most widely used personal productivity applications in the world, and Microsoft’s goal is to enhance the user’s experience with those applications. Empowering Microsoft Office users to express their intentions through Creative Commons licenses is another way Microsoft enables users around the world to exercise their creative freedom while being clear about the rights granted to users of a creative work. In the past, it has not always been easy or obvious to understand the intentions of some authors or artists regarding distribution or use of their intellectual creations.
· Flashcards – (this is an internet link not a download) Flashcards is a Silverlight web application where you can create, share, and study online flashcards. Find a deck in the community, or create your own. Decks can have up to 300 cards, and each card can have any combination of text, image, and sound on the front and the back. Start with Review mode if you don't know the content at all. Otherwise, skip ahead to Study or Type It In modes. Study mode is based on the honor system, and Type It In checks the correct answer with what you typed in. Want a challenge? Try swapping fronts and backs then studying again.
· Interactive Classroom - The Microsoft Interactive Classroom Add-in for PowerPoint 2007 & 2010 and OneNote 2007 & 2010 bridges lessons delivered in PowerPoint to students using OneNote in 1:1 classroom settings, or lecture environments. It enhances the learning experience by enabling educators to insert polling questions (multiple choice, yes/no, or true/false) into their presentations when creating lessons, increases student engagement by allowing students to answer in-class polls, and supports agile teaching practices through the sharing of ink annotations and slides within the students OneNote Notebook.
· Kodu - Kodu is a new visual programming language made specifically for creating games. It is designed to be accessible for children and enjoyable for anyone. The visual nature of the language allows for rapid design iteration using only an Xbox game controller for input (mouse/keyboard input is also supported).
· Learning Essentials--With Learning Essentials 2.0 for Microsoft Office, educators and students can get started, stay organized, and successfully complete high-quality work using the templates and tutorials provided. Educators can also create effective instructional resources, complete administrative tasks, and implement new teaching strategies.
· Math Worksheet - Do you spend a lot of time searching for worksheets with practice problems to give your students? Now you can easily create your own in just a few seconds with the Math Worksheet Generator. This is a tool that generates multiple math problems based on a sample, and then creates a worksheet that you can distribute. By analyzing the math problem you provide, or one of the built-in samples, the generator determines the structure of the expression and provides similar problems. We tack on an answer sheet too.
· Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 in the classroom - From basic math to pre-calculus, Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 helps you visualize and see mathematical concepts as you’ve never seen them before.
· Microsoft Mathematics Add - in for Word and OneNote - Microsoft Mathematics Add-in for Word and OneNote makes it easy to plot graphs in 2D and 3D, calculate numerical results, solve equations or inequalities, and simplify algebraic expressions in your Word documents and OneNote notebooks.
· Moodle Add-in - Uploading files to Moodle has never been easier. The Office Add-in for Moodle (OAM) is an add-in for Microsoft Office (versions 2003, 2007 and 2010) that allows teachers to open and save Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents to a Moodle website. Today, teachers who use Office and Moodle have to switch back and forth between their web browser and Office applications. With the OAM, teachers can create, open, edit, and save Moodle documents from within the Office applications. You no longer need to use your web browser when working with Office documents stored in Moodle.
· Mouse Mischief--Try a little Mischief. Mouse Mischief integrates into Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, letting you insert questions, polls, and drawing activity slides into your lessons. Works on Vista/Windows 7 and Office 2007 or 2010. Students can actively participate in these lessons by using their own mice to click, circle, cross out, or draw answers on the screen.
- Photosynth - Capture your world in 3DShoot wraparound panoramas or full "synths", share them with friends, and publish them to Bing. Gear up by checking out some of the best: Bridges, Towers, Collections, Museums, National Parks, Markets, Insects, Forests, Archaeology, Aerial Views, Beaches. Or dive into some of the 200,000+ panoramas and synths on Bing Maps.
· Songsmith—similar to garageband. Students can create their own music and loops and background soundtracks.
· Sharedview—share your computer screen with up to 15 other users. Others can share their screen with you too.
· Visual Studio - Get everything you need to start building standards-friendly web applications with the free version of Visual Studio using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. Visual Web Developer 2010 Express is a full-featured web development editor for working with web standards, JavaScript, and ASP.NET. This simple, streamlined installer will get your development machine ready to go. In addition, you’ll get the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform including frameworks, web server and database.
· XNA Game Studio - Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.1 makes it easier than ever to create great video games for Windows-based PCs, Xbox 360 consoles (with an active premium XNA Creators Club subscription), and Zune digital media players.
Photo Story 3
Create slideshows and add music (No Mac. Version)
Scratch animation
Intro to computer programming, animation & gaming
Stellarium
Planetarium
Super media converter ·
Convert music, videos or other files from one format to another (No Mac Version)
TuxPaint
Drawing program for both Mac and PC, very kid friendly
Undelete plus
Recover deleted files from your computer, flash drive or camera; pc only
Web Page Creators
Nvu & Kompozer - Create web pages, html editor (Kompozer, No Mac. Version)
Windows MovieMaker
Edit movies (No Mac. Version), both the Live version –in the Essentials and version 6 for Vista and Windows 7
Other list of sites
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