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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
enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world. Experience narrated guided tours from astronomers and educators featuring interesting places in the sky.
an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.
This site is a open collaborative question bank, in which anyone can use, rate, discuss, and improve assessment and practice materials. Chemistry is the subject area offered, but there will be more domains in the QCommons.
This file updates CodeWarrior Pro 4.0 to compiler version 2.2.1 and MSL C++ version 4.1.05. This is a bug fix release for the 2.2 compiler originally shipped with Pro 4.0. See the release notes for details. This update includes only Mac OS (68K, PowerPC) compilers. You should install the IDE 3.3 patch before installing this update. You will need to rebuild your libraries and precompiled headers after installing this patch; see the "Library Build Instructions" file in the patch for details.
Course Management Systems
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Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites. Moodle.org is our community site where Moodle is made and discussed.
SLOODLE is an Open Source project which integrates the multi-user virtual environment of Second Life® with the Moodle® learning-management system. SLOODLE provides a range of tools for supporting learning and teaching to the immersive virtual world; tools which are integrated with a tried and tested leading web-based learning management system.
SecondLife
Debate
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Debategraph.org's goal is to make the best arguments on all sides of any public debate freely available to all and continuously open to challenge and improvement by all.
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Drawing Programs
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Blocks hackers from infiltrating your home PC by hiding your computer from unsolicited network traffic. By detecting and preventing intrusions, ZoneAlarm Free Firewall keeps your PC free from viruses that slow down performance, and spyware that steals your personal information, passwords, and financial data.
iPhone Educational Applications
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Learn or refresh your French; NATIVE SPEAKER audio for all words; Priority based optimization system; Entertaining PUZZLE GAME; WRITE-IN quiz to test language recall; Manual & automatic FLASH CARD method; Self contained, network access not required; MULTIPLE CHOICE quiz
iSSRN, our free iPhone App, was released recently. It provides instant access to the latest Social Science and Humanities research in the SSRN eLibrary from scholars around the world.
Vocabulary recorded in high-quality, static-free audio, spaced repetition, audio quiz, search, organize your words, Study mode, Flashcard mode, and Quiz mode
Free, unlimited texting for iPod touch and iPhone, Send texts over wifi -- no cell, edge or 3G required
Write texts in landscape mode -- finally, Send texts for free -- no cost, no limit, Group text conversations, Text with several friends, all at once. Everyone in the group gets every message. It’s like an instant chatroom in text, Push Notifications -- Never miss a message
Collect, classify and structure ideas; organize, study and solve problems. Mind maps can be used for many different tasks – including to-do lists, brainstorming, holiday planning, research, writing, project management – and in many different environments – school, meetings, workspace.
Music Composition and Notation Software
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Free music composition and notation software; WYSIWYG, notes are entered on a "virtual note sheet"; Unlimited number of staves; Up to four voices per staff; Easy and fast note entry with mouse, keyboard or MIDI; Integrated sequencer and FluidSynth software synthesizer; Import and export of MusicXML and Standard MIDI Files (SMF); Platform independent code, binaries available for Windows, Mac and Linux
Available in 20 languages
Office Suites
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New tool for communication and collaboration on the web; a web based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wiki, and social networking. It has a strong collaborative and real-time focus supported by extensions that can provide, for example, robust spelling/grammar checking, automated translation between 40 languages, and numerous other extensions.- Real-time: In most instances, you can see what someone else is typing, character-by-character; Embeddability; Applications and Extensions; Wiki functionality; Open source; Playback; Natural language; Drag-and-drop file sharing
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Photo Editing Software
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freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. (more...)
Skimble's a free service that lets you plan and track fun alternative workouts by helping you find outdoor activities in your area, coordinate group excursions, break down your workout performance, and motivate you to keep it up by comparing your day-to-day activity level with other peoples', who you'll soon come to realize don't have jobs, and are on steroids and meth
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Presentation Software
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remarkably powerful dynamic programming language that is used in a wide variety of application domains. Python is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Ruby, Scheme or Java. Some of its key distinguishing features include: very clear, readable syntax, strong introspection capabilities, intuitive object orientation, natural expression of procedural code, full modularity, supporting hierarchical packages, exception-based error handling, very high level dynamic data types, extensive standard libraries and third party modules for virtually every task, extensions and modules easily written in C, C++ (or Java for Jython, or .NET languages for IronPython), embeddable within applications as a scripting interface
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Scaling Software
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SLOODLE is an Open Source project which integrates the multi-user virtual environment of Second Life® with the Moodle® learning-management system. SLOODLE provides a range of tools for supporting learning and teaching to the immersive virtual world; tools which are integrated with a tried and tested leading web-based learning management system. See Moodle.
Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet.
Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. You won’t find editors at Digg — we’re here to provide a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we’re changing the way people consume information online.
Social Media Classroom & Forums
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a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute: authors create and collaborate; instructors rapidly build and share custom collections; learners find and explore content
Time Management
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Productivity, Time Management and Communications software through activity analytics. Slife helps you understand how you spend time in the computer. It automatically observes as you interact with applications, documents and web sites. Easy, simple, open source.
Translation Software
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Broadcast your teaching. Live broadcasting in one click. Justin.tv is an online community for people to broadcast, watch and interact around live video. Full video material stored for 7 days only. Clips stored for longer.
Live interactive video broadcast platform that enables anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to quickly and easily broadcast to a global audience of unlimited size. Broadcast video LIVE to the world from a computer, mobile or iPhone in minutes, or watch thousands of shows from News to Entertainment to celebrities, 24/7.
Multiple languages
Twitter for Learning
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VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web
Web Meeting Software
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Dimdim lets anyone deliver synchronized live presentations, whiteboards and web pages and share their voice and video over the Internet - with no download required.
Dimdim Open Source Community Edition v4.5 “Liberty” is meant for developers, highly technical enthusiasts and for use in non-critical environments
Wiki Software
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Server side Wiki Softwre; MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this website, the home of MediaWiki.
is a free extension of MediaWiki – the wiki-system powering Wikipedia – that helps to search, organise, tag, browse, evaluate, and share the wiki's content. While traditional wikis contain only text which computers can neither understand nor evaluate, SMW adds semantic annotations that let you easily publish Semantic Web content, and allow the wiki to function as a collaborative database.