Thursday, 9 September 2010

Free OER Applications

A large list of FREE software applications that can be downloaded to memory stick from JISC Scotland - specifically customised for educational use - http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/eduapps/compare.php

An interesting link to collaborative drawings online
http://mashable.com/2009/05/01/collaborative-drawings/



A great wee programme to take your photographs and create thumbnails (that take up MUCH less memory space) for using as icons and so on, to illustrate your online work. Download free software and install from http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/

This is a useful site to compare wikis http://www.wikimatrix.org/

A handy tool for downloading YouTube videos etc is at http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/

A nice wee freeware application to send voice snippets by email - download at http://www.jdvoicemail.vze.com/download.html

GIMP - Open Source application for manipulating digital graphics and photographs downloadable at http://www.gimp.org/
A useful tool for capturing images on screen is at http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html

Dspace - open source repository software for sharing resources at http://www.dspace.org/

Fedora - commons repository software for maintaining and linking resources at http://fedoraproject.org/

Open Archives Initiative - standards for web content interoperability - http://www.openarchives.org/

Jorum - tool for the deposit and use of OER for UK Higher and Further Education athttp://www.jorum.ac.uk/deposit/

A fun tool for designing your own (educational) cartoons for teaching and learning is at http://toonlet.com/

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