The worldwide OER movement is rooted in the idea that equitable access to high-quality education is a global imperative.
Open Educational Resources are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse, without charge. OER often have a Creative Commons or GNU license that state specifically how the material may be used, reused, adapted, and shared.
As a network for teaching and learning materials, the web site offers engagement with resources in the form of social bookmarking, tagging, rating, and reviewing. OER Commons has forged alliances with over 120 major content partners to provide a single point of access through which educators and learners can search across collections to access over 24,000 items, find and provide descriptive information about each resource, and retrieve the ones they need. By being "open," these resources are publicly available for all to use, and principally through Creative Commons licensing, many thousands are legally available for repurposing, modifying and improving.
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Slife is a time and activity analytics application for both Mac and Windows that automatically keeps track of where you spend your time on your computer.
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"It’s a drill-the-skills sort of site with a twist: students practice math and spelling skills by competing with other players that can be anywhere in the world. So, in essence, you also have the potential for some social studies." (Source: Laura Smith's Blog)
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Using our PDF-to-Word conversion technology, you can quickly and easily create editable DOC/RTF files, making it a cinch to re-use PDF content in applications like Microsoft Word, Excel, OpenOffice, and WordPerfect.
Best of all, it's entirely free!
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Glogster.com/edu has tools, services and security to make Glogster even more useful to classroom teachers.
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Clean, simple and fun way to build a website. Pages, posts, photos, and pods all tied together by skins.
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Soshiku is a simple but powerful tool that manages your high school or college assignments. Soshiku keeps track of when your assignments are due and can even notify you via email or SMS.
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Shrink O'Matic is an AIR application to easily (batch) resize (shrink) images. It handles JPGs, GIFs and PNGs.\n\nSimply drag and drop images and they'll be resized as you wish! Options allow you to choose the output sizes, names and formats. Useful for web designers, bloggers, yearbook editors, and more.
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Make a web site with integrated blog, wiki, photo albums, videos, forums, forms/surveys, calendar and more!
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Open Source Desktop Publishing
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A directory of sites for free courses on graphic design and application techniques for Photoshop and Flash. (Michael M. Grant)
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Edusim is a free opensource 3D virtual world specifically for your classroom interactive whiteboard! Edusim is an extremely powerful way to engage your students by bringing a 3D virtual environment that allows the direct manipulation of the 3D virtual lea
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A free opensource 3D virtual world" designed to be used with interactive whiteboards. Did you hear that? It's FREE and OPENSOURCE!!!
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The Quick & Easy Website Builder that Requires NO Technical Skills. It's FREE.
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Make free mobile calls, and Instant Message with Skype, MSN Messenger, ICQ, Google Talk™, SIP & Twitter, AIM® & Yahoo!™
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Pixlr is a free online photo editor, jump in and start edit, adjust, filter.
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A free media-rich authoring environment and visual programming system for teaching children powerful ideas in compelling ways
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StarLogo is a programmable modeling environment for exploring the behaviors of decentralized systems, such as bird flocks, traffic jams, and ant colonies. It is designed especially for use by students.
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"What we believe in: Clean, quality, easily accessible, educational software for every school and child regardless of geographic location or economic class. What we don't believe in: Games, advertising, fees, spam or gimmicks."
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