Educational Software



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The Global, Virtual/Digital, Open, Free, {potentially Degree- and Credit-Granting},

Multilingual University & School

where anyone can teach or take a class or course


 * Free, educational software.
 * Add great, free, open, educational software.

Digital Research Tools
http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/SOFTWARE/uclathes/index.html

Publish my article in a WUaS academic journal in this subject
Open Journal Systems. 2012. Open Journal Systems. Public Knowledge Project.

(WUaS's wiki, information technologies and criteria for this - informed by the WUaS academic journal subject matter - are developing, since you can already publish your article at http://www.academia.edu).

Select Book Groups, Study Groups, Musical Groups, etc.
Begin a Google + Hangout:

https://plus.google.com/hangouts

MIT UnHangouts - https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/

Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/

Select Books
Add an ISBN.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikibooks

' Select Chapters'

Select Communities, Email lists, etc.
(See also editable World University and School's 'You at World University' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University).

Select Libraries, Archives, Collections, Repositories, etc.
CNET Download Educational Software. 2013. http://download.cnet.com/windows/educational-software/ Educational Software]. download.cnet.com/windows/educational-software/.

Gizmo's Freeware Best Free Educational Software. 2013. Best Free Educational Software. techsupportalert.com/view/educational.

Wikipedia List of educational software. 2013. List of educational software. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_educational_software.

(See also editable World University and School's Library Resources' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).

Select Maps
Mizushima, Tsukasa. 2011. India Place Finder. Tokyo, Japan: Mizushima Lab at The University of Tokyo.

Select Museums
(See also editable World University and School's Museums' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums).

Select Programs, Applications, Languages, Software
Audacity. 2011. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ (Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems).

CNET Educational Software. 2014. CNET educational software download. SF, CA: download.cnet.com/mac/educational-software/.

Evernote. 2012. Evernote. (Remember everything and organize it. Capture anything. Access anywhere. Find things fast. See also Devon Think and Tinderbox - http://gigaom.com/apple/faceoff-devonthink-pro-office-vs-evernote-premium/). Evernote.

Google Apps for Education. 2014. Google Apps for Education - Free email and collaboration tools for schools. Mountain View, CA: Google, Inc.

HTTPS Everywhere. 2014. HTTPS Everywhere. San Francisco, CA: eff.org/https-everywhere.

IBM Watson Developer Cloud. 2015. IBM Watson Developer Cloud. Armonk, NY: ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/.

MindTapCengage. 2011. My Favorite Textbook: The Next Generation. (Mindtap Learning Path digital learning application for Harvard Law Professor's Greg Mankiw's 'Macroeconomics' text book; Chris Vento, with Cheryl Lazar at TED Studios). June 6. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com

TED Ed - Lessons Worth Sharing. 2012. TED Ed - Lessons Worth Sharing. (TED-Ed Website Tour - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQDgE_eJGTM). TED Ed.

Select References
Connell, Genia. 2012. My 35 Favorite Free Apps for Teaching. December 20. scholastic.com/teachers/top-teaching/2012/12/my-35-favorite-free-apps-teaching.

Despres, Draxtor. 2014. the drax files radio hour (with jo yardley). Berlin, DE: draxfiles.com/2014/03/14/show-10-oculus/.

Free e-Learning Resources. 2011. Free e-Learning Resources. blog.efrontlearning.net.

Gerald, Olympia Shilpa. 2012. Village children take the Skype route to education. July 9. New Dehli, India: The Hindu.

Introducing the Learning Dashboard. 2014. Introducing the Learning Dashboard. khanacademy.org/about/blog/post/58354379257/introducing-the-learning-dashboard.

Kolowich, Steve. 2013. With Open Platform, Stanford Seeks to Reclaim MOOC Brand. Palo Alto, Calif: Chronicle of Higher Education.

Lifshits, Yury. 2011. 100+ Online Resources That Are Transforming Education. January 7. Mashable.com.

ltjohhed. 2012. Free/Open Deduplication Software?. January 4. ask.slashdot.org.

MasterPatricko. 2011. OpenSUSE 12.1 Released. November 16. linux.slashdot.org.

MIT Center for Mobile Learning @ The Media Lab. 2012. MIT Center for Mobile Learning @ The Media Lab. Cambridge, MA: mitmobilelearning.org.

MIT Media Lab. 2012. What I did on my summer vacation Or, The Media Lab at Aspen Ideas Festival 2012. San Franscisco, CA: Storify.com.

Nesson, Charles. 2011. free to all. May 25. Cambridge, MA: blogs.law.harvard.edu/nesson.

Quinnelly, Travis. 2009. 5 Free Screencasting Apps for Creating Video Tutorials. makeuseof.com.

timothy. 2012. Best Software For Putting Lectures Online? December 31. hardware.slashdot.org.

Screen Recording Software

10 Free Screen Recording Softwares For Creating Attractive Screencasts. 2009. 10 Free Screen Recording Softwares For Creating Attractive Screencasts. (Windows, Mac). webresourcesdepot.com.

androidandosx. 2011. Top 5 Free Screen Recording Utilities for Mac OSX. (Mac) (Quicktime in MacOS Snowleopard, IShowU HD, Jing, CaptureMe, Copernicus).

Select Slideshows
Deeds, David. 2012. Best Practices Showcase: 3D Virtual Worlds in (K-12/International) Schools. March 13. slideshare.net.

Select Video and Audio
Binkley, Ken. 2010. Immune Attack Demo. Federation of American Scientists.

Digital Scores - Top 10 technical advantages of having our music in MuseScore format. 2013. Digital Scores - Top 10 technical advantages of having our music in MuseScore format. Youtube.com.

Doherty, Paul. 2012. Exploratorium Tour - Part 1 of 5. San Francisco, CA: KirkwoodSLGroup.

Pesenti, Jerome. 2014. Cognitive Computing: New Ways of Developing Software for a New Era of Computing (SATURN Keynote). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute | Carnegie Mellon University Youtube channel.

Recording Skype calls for Free w/ Audacity. 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlPT7b-Hkuk (for interviews). YouTube.

Monroy-Hernandez, Andres. 2012. Designing for Remixing: Computer-supported Social Creativity. Cambridge, MA: cyber.law.harvard.edu.

Starner, Thad. 2013. Thad Starner on Singularity 1 on 1: Reduce the Time Between Intention and Action. Nikola Danaylov Youtube channel.

Stegman, Melanie. 2011. ImmuneAttack SMHS Feb 2011. Federation of American Scientists.

TED Ed - Lessons Worth Sharing. 2012. - TED-Ed Website Tour. (http://ed.ted.com/ TED Ed - Lessons Worth Sharing). TED Ed.

Van Deusen-Scholl, Nelleke. 2014. Yale Center for Language Study Shared Course Initiative. (At the Online Education Open Forum held on February 24, 2014, Nelleke Van Deusen-School, Director of the Center for Language Study, shared the collaborative arrangement with Cornell and Columbia to share less commonly taught languages, offer several languages that are not otherwise taught on our campuses, via videoconferencing from a partner institution in the CLS Shared Course Initiative). New Haven, CT: Yale University.

Select Websites
Educational Freeware. 2013. Educational Freeware. educational-freeware.com/.

Khan Academy Knowledge Map. 2014. Khan Academy Knowledge Map. khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard.

MediaWiki Administration and Development. 2012. MediaWiki Administration and Development: Administration and optimization of a MediaWiki installation. codelesson.com.

Teach Your Technology. 2012. Teach Your Technology: Bring your technical expertise to the CodeLesson learning community. codelesson.com.

Wi-Phi: open access philosophy. 2013. Wi-Phi: open access philosophy. New Haven, CT: wi-phi.com/.

Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikipedia
Wikipedia: https://www.wikipedia.org/

Wikiquotes
Wikiquotes: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikisource
Wikisource: https://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikivoyage
Wikivoyage: https://www.wikivoyage.org/

World University and School Links
Education: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Education

One Laptop per Child: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child_-_XO_Laptop_-_$100_Laptop_-_MIT

Programming: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Programming

Software Libraries: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Software_Libraries

Theories of Learning subject: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Theories_of_Learning

Web Page Design and Production: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Web_Page_Design_and_Production

Academic Press at World University and School
Academic Press at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Press_at_World_University_and_School

Access to Live, or Email, University Technical Expertise
Ask a question in a specific discipline, or find, for example, a Robotics' or Computer programmer, or Translator, easily and freely.

Admissions at World University and School
Admissions' Department: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School

Flyer seeking degree-oriented, WUaS students: 'Quaker-informed World University & School seeks friendly, undergraduate students for free, online, Greatest Universities-centric, bachelor’s degrees to apply in the autumn of 2013, for matriculation in autumn 2014' - http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSFriendsFlyerforProspectiveStudentApplicants.pdf - and accessible here, also - http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSNoticeArchive.html. WUaS holds open, electronically-mediated, hour-long, monthly business meeting on the second Saturdays at 9 am Pacific Time, in the manner of Quakers - email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com if you'd like to participate.

Digital and Print catalog

Assistive Technologies
WUaS plans to anticipate numerous developing assistive technologies for sight-impaired, hearing-impaired, and similar -

Assistive Technologies: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Assistive_Technologies

Blog at World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/

Bookstore / Computer Store (New & Used) at World University and School
Bookstore / Computer Store (New & Used) at WUaS: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_%28New_%26_Used%29_at_WUaS

with educational electronics, as well; with musical instruments; value pricing ... 2% below market, consistently; available via mail and electronically;

Calendar (Schedule what you'd like to teach)
Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/

Join the World University and School Google + Group to add to its wiki-like calendar to teach an open, free class or course, converse about ideas, and jam (e.g. musically or theater improvisation): https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/.

Careers
Career counseling: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Career_counseling

Finding / creating a job you really love: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Finding_/_creating_a_job_you_really_love

WUaS Job hunting: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Job_hunting

Counseling
Counseling: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Counseling

Coordinates
... in a virtual world

Credits
Many thanks to each of you!

Please feel free to hyperlink your name to a location of your choice (or tell WUaS where to link to - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com). Please do not hesitate to let WUaS know if you think that somebody (including yourself) has been forgotten, now or in the future; please include a URL, which is, of course, one main way identity created on the internet.

Digital To Do
Android

Brainwave device / Headset

Broadcast to radio frequencies

Broadcast to TV / television

Create EMail group for page

Digital Text to Audio file format (Browse Aloud / Read Aloud?)

Google Glass

MIT OCW Mirror Site Instructions: http://ocw.mit.edu/about/mirror-site-program/mirror-site-instructions/

Oculus Rift

Print

Publish to DVD

Recommend

Send to phone

Tablets

Translate

Videophone

Free Degrees / Credit
MIT OCW Audio Video Courses: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/

Admissions at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School

Conference Method of Teaching and Learning: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning

The College at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School

Ph.D. Degrees at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ph.D._Degrees_at_World_University_and_School

World University Law School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School

World University Medical School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School

World University Music School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School

WUaS International Baccalaureate Diploma and Programme: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme (beginning with United Nations' languages - Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Russian, Spanish)

In Google Earth
Google Earth.

In Virtual World
(Search on the word 'lists' here, too: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds)

3D Learn. 2013. http://www.learningin3d.info/

Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). 2012. http://www.activeworlds.com

Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/

Minecraft. 2012. www.minecraft.net

Edusim. 2013. http://edusim3d.com/

Gifted Kids.ie. 2013. http://www.giftedkids.ie/daynuv.html

ISTE – SIGMS. 2013. http://sigms.iste.wikispaces.net/secondlifeplayground2010

Kaneva. 2014. http://www.kaneva.com/

Open Cobalt. 2013. http://www.opencobalt.org/

OpenSim. 2012. http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page (http://www.scribd.com/doc/57959626/OpenSimulator-School-Quick-Start-Guide)

Open Croquet. 2012. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenCroquet and http://www.opencroquet.org/

Open Wonderland. 2012. http://openwonderland.org/

Primary Games. 2013. http://www.primarygames.com/arcade/virtualworlds.php

Quest Atlantis. 2012. http://atlantisremixed.org/ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoT3pilNPI).

SimScience. 2012. http://simscience.org/

Second Life - Harvard's virtual island. 2012. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/115/53/25 - and teach, learn and share ideas - in group voice chat, or in group type chat, and via building.

SmallWorlds. 2014. https://www.smallworlds.com/

There.com. 2014. http://www.there.com/

Twinity. 2014. http://www.twinity.com/en/choose-your-free-avatar

Unity3D. 2012. http://unity3d.com/

WiloStar3D. 2013. https://www.wilostar3d.com/

World of Warcraft in School. 2014. http://wowinschool.pbworks.com/w/page/5268731/FrontPage

Add a learning-oriented virtual world here:

Travel to this virtual island to learn building:

Item Number
Global ID and Multiple IDs - see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/New_sites_system

Bar code

Learning Networking
Teach and Learn using free Social Networking software to share what courses, etc., you find edifying, what you enjoy learning ....

About Me - World University and School - http://about.me

Academia.edu's World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.academia.edu/

Delicious.com's World University and School - http://www.delicious.com/WorldUniversityandSchool

Facebook.com's World University and School - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141 ('This group may be archived').

Good Reads - http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/99021-worlduniversityandschool

Google + Profiles - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - Scott MacLeod - https://plus.google.com/115890623333932577910/

Google + Profiles Company page - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - World University and School - https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/108179352492243955816/posts

Google Groups' World University and School - http://groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School

Like

LinkedIn's World University and School - http://www.linkedin.com/groups/World-University-School-4024337

Quora - http://www.quora.com/

Research Gate - http://www.researchgate.net/

Redditt.com's World University and School - http://www.reddit.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/

Tribe.net's World University and School - http://tribes.tribe.net/worlduniversityandschool

Twitter.com's World University and School - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch

Wer Kennt Wen - World University and School - http://www.wer-kennt-wen.de/

World University & School 'subject page' group

World University & School Share This

Yahoo Groups' World University and School: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worlduniversityandschool/

TV-Live Broadcasting
Broadcast to television

Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software to the web:

Google + Hangouts - https://plus.google.com/hangouts

Justin TV - http://www.justin.tv

Livestream TV - http://www.livestream.com

Ustream TV - http://ustream.tv

Video Communication
Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software

Free video conferencing

iChat - http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/ichat.html

Skype - http://www.skype.com/

Free, group video conferencing

AnyMeeting - http://anymeeting.com/homepage/

Google + Hangout - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin - http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/

Meeting Burner - http://www.meetingburner.com/index?page=signup-v2 – up to 15 connection

ooVoo - http://www.oovoo.com/home.aspx

Paltalk - http://www.paltalk.com

sifonr - free communication - http://www.sifonr.com/‎

Tokbox | OpenTok - API - http://tokbox.com/opentok

Vyew - http://vyew.com/

Web Huddle - https://www.webhuddle.com/homepage.jsp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/webhuddle/

Zoom.us - Cloud HD Video Meetings - http://zoom.us/

Universal Translator at WUaS
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator

Google Translate language:

Sugar Labs: Translation System language:

Region:

The "Universitian" Newspaper at World University and School
The "Universitian" Newspaper at WUaS

Wiki Software for Courses
Media Wiki - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

PB Works - http://pbworks.com/

Wet Paint - http://wikisineducation.wikifoundry.com/

Wikia - http://www.wikia.com/Wikia

Wikispaces - http://www.wikispaces.com/

Wikidata / Bots
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Bots

World University and School Licensing
World University and School - like Wikipedia with Greatest Universities' OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010 and is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, educational organization charity.

World University & School is a community of learners and teachers who value — and are themselves strengthened by — the rich diversity of its participants. In order to cultivate a flourishing teaching, learning and creating conversation in a diverse and complex world, WUaS welcomes all languages, students, families, faculty, board members, and staff with differences based on (but not limited to) race, color, ethnicity, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, family structure, and economic background.

All content on this site is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.

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Courses: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses

Subjects: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects

Languages: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages

Library Resources: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources

Nation States: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States

You at World University: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University

Educational Software: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software

Museums: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums

Research: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research

Hardware Resource Possibilities: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hardware_Resource_Possibilities

Frequently Asked Questions at World University & School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions

World University Foundation: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation

LANGUAGE TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/LANGUAGE_TEMPLATE

MUSEUM TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/MUSEUM_TEMPLATE

NATION STATE TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/NATION_STATE_TEMPLATE

SUBJECT TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE

Volunteers at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Volunteers

Home: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University

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