Gregory Louie's List: Candidate Educational Software Titles

"Four Free Tools for Creating Screencasts

Making screencast videos is a good way to create a record of the instructions that you may have to frequently give to students or colleagues. Post your screencasts online and your students and colleagues can watch them when you're not available to answer their "how-to" questions. In the past I have created screencasts for my students about adding pages to wikis. If you've never created a screencast because you thought that you had to have some special skills, this post is for you. The four tools highlighted below allow you to create screencast videos quickly and easily. All four of these tools can be used on Mac or Windows computers."

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screencast tools web2.0 screencapture screencasting recorder howto screen technology capture on 2009-08-21 and saved by 36 people

In contrast to the large number of people who use computers and computer programs in their daily lives, relatively few learn to create their own computer programs. Storytelling Alice is a programming environment designed to motivate a broad spectrum of middle school students (particularly girls) to learn to program computers through creating short 3D animated movies.

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Squeak is a modern, open source full-featured implementation of the powerful Smalltalk programming language and environment. Squeak is highly-portable - even its virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk making it easy to debug, analyze, and change. Squeak is the vehicle for a wide range of projects from multimedia applications, educational platforms to commercial web application development.

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Argumentative is software for manipulating Argument Maps - the structural and visual representation of arguments.
Argument maps help to make decisions clearer or assist in formulating a position on an issue.

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How do you help students transform information into meaning?

Timeliner XE is the powerful and intuitive software program students use to organize data—anything from historical events, to scientific processes, to story arcs—to see the connections, and transform a world of information into real knowledge. This all-in-one tool supports students as they:

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CoFFEE is an open-source suite of applications that can easily be installed on any local network - be it a school's computer lab or a corporate boardroom.



CoFFEE is complemented by pedagogical scenarii - customisable lesson plans that are written by the projects researchers. These scenarii offer a good starting point for teachers who want to start using CoFFEE. They include both files that teachers can plug into CoFFEE to run a lesson plan, as well as a written step-by-step lesson plan instructing the teacher on all the relevant aspects of running a CoFFEE supported classroom activity.

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coffeesoft collaboration software open source on 2009-07-28 and saved by 3 people

WorldWide Telescope (WWT) 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.

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science astronomy telescope education software on 2009-07-09 and saved by 175 people

Virtual Worlds designed for Teachers

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fas Virtualworlds on 2009-07-28 and saved by 5 people

Viewpoints Research Institute (VRI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public benefit organization incorporated in 2001 to improve "powerful ideas education" for the world's children and to advance the state of systems research and personal computing. Many of our themes co-evolved with the inventions of networked personal computers, graphical user interfaces and dynamic object-oriented programming.

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Sophie is software for writing and reading rich media documents in a networked environment.

Sophie’s goal is to open up the world of multimedia authoring to a wide range of people and institutions and in so doing to redefine the notion of a book or “academic paper” to include both rich media and mechanisms for reader feedback and conversation in dynamic margins.

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TALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways. It supports Linux and Windows 2000/XP (Vista support will come) and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!

In contrast to widely used commercial equivalent software, iTALC is free! This means you do not have to pay for expensive licenses or things like that. Furthermore the source-code is freely available and you're free in changing the software to fit your needs as long as you respect the terms of iTALC's license (GPL). Freedom in two ways!

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Case It! is a National Science Foundation - sponsored project providing a framework for collaborative case-based learning via free, open-ended molecular biology computer simulations and cases based primarily on genetic and infectious disease.

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Teaching resource Biology Biotech simulation software on 2008-05-01

The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) project at Tufts UIT Academic Technology is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. Using VUE's concept mapping interface, faculty and students design semantic networks of digital resources drawn from digital libraries, local and remote file systems, and the Web. The resulting content maps can then be viewed and exchanged online.

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tools mindmapping visualization education software on 2008-04-23 and saved by 42 people

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GTD Outlook Software on 2008-04-02

Sophie is open source software for writing, reading and visualizing rich media documents in an interactive, networked environment. The program emerged from the desire to create an easy-to-use application that would allow authors to combine text, images, video, and sound quickly and simply, but with precision and sophistication. Sophie's users are interested in creating robust, elegant, networked, texts and multimedia works without having programming knowledge or training in the use of more complex and costly tools. such as Flash.

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sophie 21stCenturyLearning rich media multimedia authoring software tools on 2009-06-03

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

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StoryBoard Pro Software

Atomic Learning's FREE Video StoryBoard Pro is designed to give teachers, students, and home movie makers a tool to plan ahead when creating video projects

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