Liz Glowa's List: Open Source Software

"GeoGebra is free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for learning and teaching. It has received several educational software awards in Europe and the USA. "

"Introducing OmniDazzle, a set of fun and useful enhancements that help you highlight certain areas of your screen, create visual effects, and track the location of your mouse pointer."

"The Google Workshop for Educators Network (GWEN) is a community for any educator who has attended a Google Workshop for Educators (GWE) produced by Google's education partner, Computer Using Educators (CUE). This is a CLOSED community.\n"

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"Share your work with others

Add a map, include a brief description and tags, and share it with everyone or specific groups of people."

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"Making a list is usually straightforward and requires little thought. But when it comes to ordering and prioritizing items in that list, higher-level skills of analysis and evaluation are put to use. The Visual Ranking Tool brings focus to the thinking behind making ordered lists. Students identify and refine criteria as they assign order or ranking to a list. They must explain their reasoning and can compare their work with each other in a visual diagram. This tool supports activities where students need to organize ideas, debate differences, and reach consensus.

The tool and related resources are available for free, from any computer that is connected to the Internet. Students may work on their lists at home or at school, and can even compare their ideas with students located in distant classrooms."

"Welcome to the new CAST Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Book Builder! Use this site to create, share, publish, and read digital books that engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills. "

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Toolkit of software tools and examples for UDL

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"This interactive graphic organizer helps students develop an outline for one of three types of comparison essays: whole-to-whole, similarities-to-differences, or point-to-point. Links to the Comparison and Contrast Guide give students the chance to get definitions and look at examples while they work. The tool offers multiple ways to navigate information including a graphic in the upper right-hand corner that allows students to move around the map without having to work in a linear fashion. Students can also click the Review My Map link and preview what they have written, return to the map for revisions, or print the completed map."

"The Persuasion Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to map out their arguments for a persuasive essay or debate. Students begin by determining their goal or thesis. They then identify three reasons to support their argument, and three facts or examples to validate each reason. The map graphic in the upper right-hand corner allows students to move around the map, instead of having to work in a linear fashion. By clicking the printer icon, students can preview their map, return to their map for revisions, or print their completed map for future reference."

"Sakai OAE recovers from loss of partners, rebrands as Apereo OAE

Last year I described the difficulties faced by the Sakai OE project based on the departures of founding members University of Michigan and Indiana University, followed by UC Berkeley and Charles Sturt University. At the time I questioned the “sustainability of the community source model as practiced by Sakai” and asked whether the project could use the changes to “coalesce behind a unified vision and leverage the community source model to execute on that vision in a timely manner”.

Based on initial reports from the Apereo conference this week, there is now reason to believe the answer might be yes. From the OAE session:

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