From CUNY Academic Commons
- The Forum Network provides a collection of talks and lectures PBS and NPR have decided to make freely available.
- 99 Awesome Firefox Add-ons for Educators comes courtesy of OnlineCourses.org, for those interested in extensions to the browser most of us use.
- Zotero is a bibliographic tool for collecting and citing the sources you meet with on the Web. (It’s #22 of the above 99 but is good enough to merit its own entry.)
- Evernote isa way to clip, annotate, and collect almost anything you come across in the digital world.
- EtherPad isa web-based word processor that allows people to work together in real time.
- Mendeley is a pdf management and bibliographic tool that allows you to organize, share, and discover research papers.
- WolframAlpha is a “computational knowledge engine” that will answer your math questions, do your calculations, and much more.
- citeulike is a combination of social bookmarking tools that allows you to do (possibly annotated) bibliographies and reading lists that link right to the sources.
- VoiceThread allows you to upload images in a slideshow format, including narration or text for each slide, and also allows text or voice comments from any user.
- 10 sites for sharpening critical thinking is a compendium brought to you by Jeff Cobb’s Mission to Learn blog.
- AcaWiki bills itself as a “‘Wikipedia for academic research’ designed to allow” students and teachers “to share summaries and discuss academic papers online.”
- Hot Potatoes is free quiz generation software.
- Free Online OCR (optical character recognition) analyzes the text in any image file (like a scanned document), then that into text that you can easily edit on your computer.
- Gizmoz is an app that lets you create, customize and animate 3D characters that talk — e.g., from a photo you have of yourself (or a historical personage, or what/whomever).
- Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 as put together by Jane Hart, a “social learning consultant.”
- Educational Videos on the Internet– a listing of vidos available on the web for use with instruction in various academic areas
- {Please add your own favorites}
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