Educational Software
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Educational Software
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| Software | Web Site | Made by | Other Info | Level | Languages |
Biology Educational Software
| Immune Attack: an educational video game that introduces basic concepts of human immunology to high school and entry-level college students | http://fas.org/immuneattack/ | Made by Federation of American Scientists | High School / College |
Programming Languages' Educational Software
| MIT's Scratch: A Programming Language for Everyone | http://scratch.mit.edu/ | Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab | 'Drag and Drop' Teaching Language for Programming |
Vocabulary Learning Software
| Free Rice | http://www.freerice.com/ | non-credit, so far | Browser | Give free rice to hungry people by playing a simple game that increases your knowledge. Used with great success in correction facility in Jamaica. | English |
Software Tools
Animation and Machinima-Making Software
| Moviestorm | http://www.moviestorm.co.uk/ | Complete Movie-Making Package for Animations |
Audio Editor and Recorder
| Audacity | http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ | Soundforge | Audio Editor and Recorder | Free - To encode mp3 files from audicity, install Lame |
Blogging tools
| Blogger.com | http://blogger.com | made by Google | free blogging tool, integrates with other, free Google technologies | All ages |
| WordPress | http://wordpress.com | made by Wordpress | free blogging tools | All ages |
Operating Systems
| Sugar Learning Environment | http://www.sugarlabs.org | Sugar Labs | the Open Source Software that runs on the XO - One Laptop per Child |
Productivity Office Suite
| Open Office | http://download.openoffice.org/ | Open Office | Free and Open Productivity Suite with word processor, spreadsheet, slideshow, etc. | All ages |
| Jing Project | http://www.jingproject.com | Jing | Make Machinimas, and Snap a picture of your screen, record video of onscreen action, share instantly over the web, IM, email |
Social Media Classroom
| Social Media Classroom | http://socialmediaclassroom.com/index.php/ | Howard Rheingold | Classroom and Collaboratory Software | All ages |
Stream Video into Second Life and Open Sim
| Veodia | http://www.veodia.com | Veodia | Agile video that puts your work in motion |
Survey Software
| Survey Monkey | http://www.surveymonkey.com | Survey Monkey | a simple way to create surveys | All ages |
Translation Software
| Google Translator | http://translate.google.com/translate_t# | limited languages |
Video-Streaming Software for Your Mobile Phone
| Qik Mobile Live Video Sharing Software | http://qik.com | Qik | Share live video from your phone |
Virtual Worlds as Fora, Classrooms, Building Sites, Design Sites, Art Studios, etc.
| Second Life | http://secondlife.com | Linden Lab | free to use, teen and adult grid, pay to build, currency for buying and selling |
| Open Simulator | http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page | Open Sim | free, open source virtual world software |
Wiki Software
| Wikia's Wikis | http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia | Wikia | Free wiki software | All ages |