All Blog Posts Tagged 'free' (62)

Top 100 E-Learning Tools (And The Top 25 Free Ones)

Jane Hart over at the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies has compiled some great lists for e-learning tools. The lists are geared more toward educators, but I think a decent majority of the items are relevant for students as well, especially grad students who spend their days walking that line between penniless student and underpaid educator.



There’s the… Continue

Added by Sabrina Fu on December 31, 2008 at 2:30am — No Comments

Share your great writing tips

Writing teachers can turn their favorite teaching tricks into gold in a contest aimed at gathering best practices for teaching writing in the classroom. The contest rewards the best ideas submitted by teachers as judged by their peers. Now through January 1, 2009, teachers who submit tips at http://contest.thewritingteacher.… Continue

Added by John Costilla on December 17, 2008 at 7:48am — No Comments

Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX)

The Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) is an electronic warehouse of ideas, examples, and resources (represented as "packages") that support student learning at the Maricopa Community Colleges.



The key to MLX is it being a place for exchange of ideas. Anyone from anywhere can browse and search the warehouse. Each "package" is represented by a descriptive "packing slip" that… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on December 9, 2008 at 7:12am — No Comments

Create a Student-Friendly Google Search Engine

By Alix E. Peshette



Cross-posted from The Impetuous Geek



The web is an expansive collection of the good, the bad and the ugly. Wouldn’t it be great if our students could search online in a safe environment? What if teachers could focus student searches towards specific resources? Sounds complicated and full of java scripts and html?



Welcome to the happy collision of…
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Added by Alix E. Peshette on December 5, 2008 at 3:00pm — No Comments

A not so LIVELY Google.

So is this caused by a down economy with cut backs or is this a result of less than desirable traffic, revenue models and stickiness? Earlier, I made a post about "Free" services moving to different models including the embedding of ads inside the content and deeper into the application vs. traditional banner ads. That did not sit well with some… Continue

Added by John Costilla on November 20, 2008 at 8:22am — No Comments

Web 2.0 may not be FREE, but listen to your community.

"Just discovered five minutes ago that Edublogs.org has all of a sudden decided to force Kontera Content Links upon all its blog users. So here's what my blog looks like now-- and all my students' blogs."
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Added by John Costilla on November 10, 2008 at 8:25am — 14 Comments

WiZiQ free Virtual Classroom





What are people's experience with virtual classrooms ? WiZiQ offers a virtual Classroom that doesn't cost $100,000 for a site license. That's what attracted me to the WiZiQ VC platform.



Mark





www.WiZiQ.com is an online teaching platform, which provides a free virtual classroom environment for teachers to interact online and teach students in real time. Teachers can also build a… Continue

Added by Mark Cruthers on October 27, 2008 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment

Free Manuals for Free Software

FLOSS Manuals, located at flossmanuals.net, is a collection of manuals that explain how to install and use a range of free and open source software.

The FLOSS acronym stands for Free/Libre/Open-Source Software. The manuals are friendly and simple, and they are intended to encourage people to explore the wide range of free, open source alternatives to expensive and restrictively licensed software.

Added by Kevin Chilton on October 13, 2008 at 5:19am — No Comments

Superstruct - Play the Game, Invent the Future

Superstruct is the world's first massively multiplayer forecasting game. By playing the game, you'll help us chronicle the world of 2019--and imagine how we might solve the problems we'll face. Because this is about more than just envisioning the future. It's about making the future, inventing new ways to organize the human race and augment our collective human potential.



So come and… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on October 8, 2008 at 4:08am — No Comments

Additional Opportunities

Please consider joining our Cool Tools and EdTech (http://groups.diigo.com/groups/cooltools) and/or Parent Learning Board (http://groups.diigo.com/groups/parent) group at Diigocom.



You might also enjoy checking out and downloading the FREE Teacher Toolbar (listed among Jane Hart's best elearning tools in… Continue

Added by Ellen on September 24, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

Free Worksheets for Teachers.

These free worksheets will help your child brush up on language arts, math, science, and other important subjects. Select the learning level below to get you started.





Preschool

Kindergarten

First Grade…

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Added by Amy James on September 23, 2008 at 2:42pm — No Comments

2008 PBwiki Program for Educators

PBwiki has announced that they are offering educators & librarians who sign up as part of the 2008 PBwiki Program for Educators a free premium wiki (regular price: $250/year). This program is also open to home school parents as well.



You can learn more about all the ways you can use a wiki in your classroom to enhance and support student learning over on the PBWiki Education page, or the PBwiki… Continue

Added by Derek Baird on September 9, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Announcing TeacherRated.com: where K-12 can find, share, rate and review the best online educational resources

TeacherRated.com is a free resource website created by teachers for teachers. Using TeacherRated.com, educators quickly locate the very best teaching tools, lesson plans, reference websites and student activities available online because resources are suggested, rated and reviewed by teachers.



Whether searching for lesson plans, teaching resources or student activities, many educators turn to the Internet for help. With thousands of… Continue

Added by Greg from LessonGateway.com on September 1, 2008 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Free Weather poster available

A free weather poster is available in PDF format for download at www.uskoob.com


This is available 8 up in A4 as you see it here and as 8 individual A4 pages- hope you find it helpful

Added by Uskoob on August 26, 2008 at 7:14pm — No Comments

Plenty of free resources available

Heres a few of the new resourses available for free at www.uskoob.com

Added by Uskoob on August 18, 2008 at 5:34am — No Comments

UNESCO's Virtual Laboratory Toolkit

The Virtual Laboratory Toolkit provides an extensive set of free person-to-person (P2P) communication tools (audio and video conference, scientific text chat, whiteboard, collaborative authorship, portal and mailing list management, etc.), and also basic advice on person-to-equipment (P2E) tools.

The toolkit is available for download at: http://virtuallab.tu-freiberg.de/

Added by Kevin Chilton on July 24, 2008 at 10:24am — No Comments

Animation For Education

Just a quick post to alert people to a new ‘ning’ group that has been set up by Oscar Stringer. Animation for Education is for those interested in learning how to make simple animation films in the classroom, and equally for those who already know how, to share tips and tricks to get the best results. There are recommendations for free and/or cheap… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on June 15, 2008 at 2:23pm — No Comments

Free E-Learning

Hi Everyone,



I believe online learning should be free and available worldwide. If

you feel the same, join me at Integrating Technology: Exploring New

Domains
where you can learn and create your own online courses using

Moodle course management system (CMS). Free Moodle training and

professional development courses will be offered free of charge to

teachers who wish to provide free learning for others.… Continue

Added by Dr. Nellie Deutsch on May 25, 2008 at 4:10am — No Comments

Tutoring: A relief for parents

Not all people in USA earn fat salary cheques, there are many people in USA who fall in lower middle class. They also have duties and commitments towards their children education. The point is they have limitations in terms of money to be spend on children education, keeping their budget tight they have to manage everything. It is comfortable if their child is scoring good grades in school but the problem arises if their child is scoring poor grades and he/she needs tutoring. We, all know the… Continue

Added by Jasonrichmond on April 30, 2008 at 1:48am — No Comments

Free Professional Development Courses

How can web 2.0 tools be used in education? Join free online professional development courses and find out how you can integrate web 2.0 into your classes. Live online presentations will be scheduled and added to Exploring New Domains. The sessions will focus on how web 2.0 tools can be used for instruction and learning.

Added by Dr. Nellie Deutsch on April 25, 2008 at 2:19pm — No Comments

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