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A Free Learning Tool for Every Learning Problem?

OpenCourseWare and Open Educational Resources 101 Free Learning Tools Printer-Friendly Version

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Let's explore the idea that there is at least one excellent free learning tool (or site) for every learning problem, need or issue!

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1. Easy-to-use and secure Internet browser? Firefox or Chrome 2. e-Mail system? Gmail 3. RSS reader? Google Reader 4. Social bookmarking tool? del.icio.us 5. Social bookmarking tool with collaborative learning features (groups, forums, etc.)? Diigo 6. Social bookmarking tool that allows members to "pin" images, videos and links (URLs) to my pinboard(s)? Pinterest 7. Social curation tool that also suggests content? Scoop.it 8. Tool that helps me tell stories by curating social media? Storify 9. Tool that summarizes my social news feeds (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader)? Summify 10. Tool that enables me to capture, visualize, organize and share my bookmarks? SimplyBox
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11. Tool to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform? Evernote 12. Tool to save pages for later? ReadItLater 13. Tool to translate text or a webpage? Google Language Tools 14. Online Calendar? Google Calendar 15. Tool to aggregate all my resources, mail, RSS feeds, etc, in one place? Netvibes, iGoogle or Pageflakes 16. Platform to incorporate all my favorite tools within one environment? Elgg 17. fully featured electronic portfolio tool? Mahara 18. Learning Management System (LMS )? Moodle 19. Hosted LMS? Click Here! 20. LMS that looks and feels like Facebook? Edmodo 21. Tool to assist me in evaluating and selecting a LMS? EduTools 22. Learning Activity Management System? LAMS 23. Communication and collaboration tool for my University/College/School? Google Apps 24.

Social Networking tool? Facebook or Google+

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25. Professional social network? LinkedIn 26. Microblogging tool? Twitter 27. Twitter client? Tweetdeck 28. Micro-blogging platform for my company? Yammer 29. Social media dashboard? HootSuite 30. Turn Twitter, Facebook and RSS feeds into online newspapers? Paper.li 31. Tool to organize, share my online life and discover that of others? Symbaloo 32. Tool to create study groups and manage group projects? GroupTable 33. Tool to keep track of my schoolwork (assignments)? Soshiku 34. 3D online virtual world where I can socialize, connect and learn? Second Life 35. Tool to create my own website? Google Sites 36. Content Management System (CMS)? Joomla 37. Tool to conduct webinars (Web BigBlueButton 38. Tool to broadcast myself to the world? USTREAM 39. Tool to make calls from my computer? Skype 40. Videoconferencing chat service? Vawkr 41. Content authoring tool? How about two? eXe & CourseLab 42. Alternative to Microsoft Office? OpenOffice 43. Online suite of office tools? Google Docs or Zoho 44. Collaborative course authoring tool? Udutu 45. Tool to create and share great video lessons with my iPad? Educreations or ShowMe 46. Tool that accurately converts my PowerPoint to Flash (including animations)? iSpring Free 47. Tool to share my slides? SlideShare, SlideBoom or authorSTREAM
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48. Presentation tool to create zooming (and awesome) presentations? Prezi 49. Web authoring tool alternative to FrontPage and Dreamweaver? NvU or KompoZer 50. Personal online notebook? Google Notebook 51. Blogging tool? Blogger or WordPress 52. WordPress-powered social network tool? BuddyPress 53. Blogging tool for educators? Edublogs 54. Directory of edubloggers from around the world? International Edubloggers Directory 55. Wiki tool? Wikispaces, Wetpaint or Google Sites 56. Encyclopedia, which I can add to or edit? Wikipedia 57. Community dedicated to collaborative development of free content? WikiEducator 58. Tool to transform media into collaborative spaces with video, voice and text commenting? VoiceThread 59. Tool for storytelling? Here are 50! 60. Tool for Collaborative Storytelling? Storybird 61. Screencasting (recording) tool? Wink 62. Hosted screencasting tool (more options)? Screenr, Jing or Screencast-0-matic 63. Mindmapping tool? FreeMind 64. Tool to brainstorm and create mindmaps online? Bubbl.us or MindMeister 65. Easy-to-learn 3D authoring software tool? Google SketchUp 66. Alternative to 3D Studio Max? Blender 67. tool to make 3D models? Sculptris 68. Tool to create comics and cartoons? ToonDoo 69. Tool to create animations? GoAnimate 70. Revolutionary real-time movie making software? xtranormal 71. Use Bloom's Taxonomy Wheel for Writing Learning Outcomes A Juicy Collection of Bloom's Digital Taxonomies! 10 Qualities That Make A Good Teacher (Richard M. Reis) iPad for Learning & Teaching at #eLi3! A Free Learning Tool for Every Learning Problem? ZaidLearn by Zaid Ali Alsagoff is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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recording tool? Audacity

72. Tool to broadcast from any phone to the Internet live? ipadio 73. Tool to create my own 'Internet Talk Radio Show'? Blog Talk Radio 74. Tool using my real voice to discuss my interests and passions with anyone? Voxopop 75. Tool to record and host my audio recordings online? Odeo Studio 76. Tool to convert text to speech? vozMe or iSpeech 77. Tool for real-time spelling and translation? eType 78. Tool to create personalized speaking avatars? Voki 79.

Photo/image editing tool? GIMP or Picasa

slideshows in minutes? Animoto

80. Tool that turns my photos/video clips into professional video 81. Exciting word cloud generator? Wordle 82. Tool to make an interactive poster? Glogster 83. Online photo/image editing tool? Splashup 84. Tool to create cool personalized images? Custom Sign Generator Widgets 85. Image Resizer? Dosize 86. Watermarking tool? uMark
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87. Screen Color Picker? ColorSchemer 88. Tool to highlight text in a webpage? The Awesome Highlighter 89. Tool to create flowcharts, diagrams, technical drawings? Gliffy 90. Tool to make screenshots from different browsers with one click? Browsershots 91. Tool to create PDFs from any Windows program? PDFCreator 92. Tool to convert PDF to Word? PDF2Word Online 93. Online file conversion tool (e.g. Word >PDF>PowerPoint)? Zamzar 94. Online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool? Free OCR 95. QR Code, Semacode and Data Matrix Barcode Generator? QR Code Generator 96. Tool to share my videos? YouTube, TeacherTube or Vimeo 97. Tool to share any type of file with unlimited storage capacity? Internet Archive 98. Online noticeboard? Wallwisher 99. Online science research sharing portal? SciVee 100. Online community to share and discuss instructional teacher videos? TeacherTube 101. Online community to share, discuss and learn about the uses of educational technology? EdTechTalk 102. Online community to test my big ideas? Big Think 103. Service for engaging in conversation about news, thoughts and ideas people share? Amplify 104. Tool to download videos from any video sharing site (YouTube, Metacafe, etc.)? ClipNabber 105. Self-publishing tool (books, papers, articles, etc)? Scribd or Issuu 106. Tool to share my pictures? Are you joking! Flickr 107. Space to upload and share my files? eSnips 108. File hosting solution to share huge files up? FileCrunch 109. Tool to sync files online and across computers? Dropbox 110. Tool for real-time file sharing and collaboration? drop.io 111. Tool to save pages from my computer or phone for later readings? ReadItLater 112. 3-ring binder for the Web? Livebinders 113. URL shortener and tracker? bit.ly 114. Online
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quiz tool? ClassMarker

115. Tool to create interactive quizzes and puzzles? Hot Potatoes 116. Tool to create quizzes with videos? ESL Video 117. Tool to create web and print-based crossword puzzles? EclipseCrossword 118. Inquiry-oriented lesson tool? WebQuest 119. Multimedia flashcard tool? Quizlet or MemoryLifter 120. Online

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121. Online polling tool with a bit of fizzle? Polldaddy 122. Student Response System (SRS) that uses smartphones, laptops, and tablets and the web? Poll Everywhere or Socrative 123. Tool to test which sites loads faster in my browser? Which Loads Faster?
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124. Tool to create Flash games (templates)? ClassTools.net 125. Investment Simulation Game? Virtual Trader 126. Interactive 3D business simulator? INNOV8 127. Game to understand cancer better? Re-Mission 128. Game to understand the scientific method and 21st Century Skills? River City 129. Game to understand variable manipulations for urban management? SimCity 130. Game to understand social studies better? Quest Atlantis 131. Game to understand world hunger and efforts to alleviate it? WFP Foodforce 132. Game to learn more vocabulary and help hungry people? Seriously! FreeRice 133. List of at least 100 free juicy learning games to spice up my course(s)? Click Here! 134. Range of interactive tools to help me understand maths concepts? Shodor Interactivate 135. Collection of video tutorials (and assessment) to learn maths? Khan Academy 136. Step-by-step math problem solver? Mathway 137. Tool to publish my data online and create comparison tables? Tablefy 138. Tool to create my own search engine tailored to my needs? Google Custom Search Engine 139. Personalized search world? Historius 140. Human-powered search engine? Mahalo 141. Metasearch engine with visual display interfaces? What! Here is KartOO! 142. Search tool presenting results from a large number of websites in different visual ways? Spezify 143. Search engine that groups the results by topic via automated clustering technology? Vivisimo 144. Science-specific search engine? Scirus 145. All-in-one research search tool? Schoolr 146. Tool to search query and then select a credible resource? SearchCredible 147. Tool to help me collect, manage, and cite my research sources? Zotero 148. Tool that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to my website? Google Analytics 149. Tool to search, discover, rank and compare different sites around the world? Alexa 150. Tool to search the full text of books? Google Book Search 151. Tool to search for scholarly literature? Google Scholar 152. Tool to search for patents? Google Patent Search 153. Tool that sends me email updates of the latest relevant Google results (e.g. e-Learning)? Google Alerts 154. Sticky and canvas service (post it)? Lino
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155. Energy saving search engine? Blackle 156. Online visual dictionary and thesaurus? Visuwords 157. World digital library ? World Digital Library 158. Tool to build and distribute my own digital library? Greenstone 159. Site to find and search across all OpenCourseWare (OCW) courses? OpenCourseWare Consortium 160. Repository and learning network of Open Educational Resources (OER)? OER Commons 161. Site to get the latest updates on OER and OCW? OER Blogs 162. Site to get access to thousands of free lectures? Academic Earth, iTunes U or YouTube EDU 163. Portal to non-formal OER and training resources? Open Training Platform 164. Encyclopedia of video tutorials to help me learn any software? Edumax or Wikivid 165. Site to practice speaking English while I watch great videos? EnglishCentral 166. e-Book to learn more about e-learning 2.0? Learning 2.0 eBook 167. Site to learn more about rapid e-learning? The Rapid e-Learning Blog 168. Site to learn more about Online Course Development? Hitchhikers Guide to Course Development 169. Crash course in learning theory? Click here! 170. Database of Learning Theories? Click here & here! 171. Tool to help me understand and use learning styles effectively? Learning Styles Online.com 172. Repository of creative and critical thinking tools? Mycoted to the rescue! 173. Route to learn more about the 21st century skills? Route 21 174. Repository of how everything works? HowStuffWorks 175. Repository of lectures from the world's top scientists? Videolectures.NET 176. Repository of resources and simulation tools to learn more about nanotechnology? The nanoHUB 177. Directory of academic open access repositories? OpenDOAR 178. Site covering today's top social, political, and tech issues? FORA.tv 179. Site to improve my learning skills? Study Guides & Strategies 180. Gaming tool to help me learn ICT? ReviseICT.co.uk 181. Tool to improve my typing skills? Peter's Online Typing Course 182. Tool to improve my reading skills? ZAP Reader 183. Interactive courseware to improve my workplace skills? ALISON 184. Multimedia site that enhance our understanding of war and its history? Maps-of-War 185. 3D human anatomy visualization tool? Visible Body 186. Site to learn languages? Free Language 187. Tool to explore the World? Google Earth 188. Tool to search and zoom maps of any country? Google Maps 189. Tool to explore the Universe? WorldWide Telescope 190. Tool to visualize human development? Gapminder
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191. Tool to

answer all my questions? Wolfram|Alpha, Google

teaching
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thinking

Squared or Answer.com 192. Site with talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers? TED is a good starting point! 193. Article to reveal the secrets of the super-learners? Click here! 194. Link to the most innovative web 2.0 (and 3.0) lab in the world? Google Labs 195. Tool to stumble upon and discover great websites, videos, photos, etc. ? StumbleUpon 196. Daily newsletter that keeps me updated with the latest news on online learning? Stephen's OLDaily 197. Site where I can learn more about social media and social learning? Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies 198. Site dedicated to tracking the changes occurring in education today? Open Education 199. Site to update me on the latest free instructional resources for Higher Education? Educational Technology 200. Tool to track plagiarism? Plagium, Viper and more... 201. Site to discover 202. Bla, Bla... In short, for every learning problem (or issue) we have today, there is probably a tool site there that enables us to solve it. If not, I am pretty sure some genius out there is free or out

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4 3 COM M EN TS : John Dehlin Test said... What about OpenCourseWare!?!?!?!? :) (He says self-servingly) 11 A PR I L 2008 10:15 Zaid Ali Alsagoff said... This comment has been removed by the author. 11 A PR I L 2008 11:24 Zaid Ali Alsagoff said... Dear John, Thanks for your great feedback! If you look closely, you can see question 72 (might change later) which says: I want a free Repository and learning network of Open Educational Resources (OER)? OER Commons
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