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1. Slide 1: Best of the Free Technology Tools for Teachers Steve C. Yuen, Ph.D. Professor The University of Southern Mississippi and Patrivan K. Yuen, M.A., M.Ed., M.L.S. Technical Services/Systems Librarian William Carey University MBEA Conference East Central Community College, Decatur, MS September 14, 2007
2. Slide 2: The Yuens’ Top Picks Selection Criteria Free – no trials Public domain or open source Desktop or online Easy to learn and use Useful for teaching and learning
3. Slide 3: Categories of Technology Tools Productivity Tools Publishing Tools Communications Web Mail Image Editing Software Multimedia and Web Development Tools Search Security Utilities Web Tools
4. Slide 4: Best Productivity Tool OpenOffice
5. Slide 5: OpenOffice Open source, multiplatform, and multilingual office suite. Desktop and portable versions. A full-featured office suite that's compatible with Microsoft Office, Word Perfect, Lotus and other office applications. Include a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing package & database. Download at [www.openoffice.org]
6. Slide 6: OpenOffice - Writer
7. Slide 7: OpenOffice - Calc
8. Slide 8: OpenOffice - Impress
9. Slide 9: OpenOffice - Draw
10. Slide 10: OpenOffice - Base
11. Slide 11: OpenOffice - Math
12. Slide 12: Honorable Mention Google Docs & Spreadsheets Services docs.google.com
13. Slide 13: Honorable Mention ThinkFree thinkfree.com
14. Slide 14: Best Publishing Tool PDF Creator
15. Slide 15: PDF Creator Open source, Windows application. A printer driver that creates Adobe Acrobat files from any applications. Create more than just PDFs: PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS. Offer a multitude of options for controlling the output, including the ability to password- protect PDF files to limit users’ ability to print, copy, or modify the documents. Download at [www.pdfforge.org]
16. Slide 16: PDF Creator
17. Slide 17: Best Communication Tools Meebo & Skype
18. Slide 18: Meebo Let you log in simultaneously to 7 IMs (AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN Live Messenger, and Meebe’s own network). See all your contact in a single list, and you can correspond with them all from a single interface. Allow you to do instant messaging from anywhere. Access at [www.meebo.com]
19. Slide 19: Meebo
20. Slide 20: Skype Work on most kinds of computers — Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Pocket PCs. Calls, chats and file transfers work between computers. Automatically encrypt calls, chats and file transfers before sending it through the Internet. Download at [www.skype.com]
21. Slide 21: Skype
22. Slide 22: Skype
23. Slide 23: Skype
24. Slide 24: Best Web Mail Gmail
25. Slide 25: Gmail Come with built-in Google search technology and over 2.6 GB of storage. Also available on mobile devices. Integrate instant messaging right into the email Provide spam protection using Google technology. Messages can be sent and read in most languages. Gmail interface is available in 40 languages. Free automatic forwarding and POP3 access Access at [www.gmail.com]
26. Slide 26: Gmail
27. Slide 27: Gmail
28. Slide 28: Gmail
29. Slide 29: Gmail
30. Slide 30: Best Search Tool Google & Google Desktop
31. Slide 31: Google www.google.com Search billions of Web pages. Search Web, images, news, groups, and directory. Offer advanced search and language tools. Offer free SiteSearch and WebSearch to educational institutions worldwide. Google toolbar, Google Viewer, Google Webquotes, Google wireless.
32. Slide 32: Google
33. Slide 33: Google Desktop Index nearly every document on your hard drive and then includes those files in your Google searches. Quickly search your computer for emails, web history, and files. View news, photos and more anywhere on your desktop. Add Google Gadgets (News, Maps, Weather, Web Clips ...) to customize your desktop and Sidebar. Download at [desktop.google.com]
34. Slide 34: Google Desktop
35. Slide 35: Best Web Development Tool Nvu
36. Slide 36: Nvu Open source, multiplatform application. A complete Web Authoring System that combines file management and WYSIWYG Web page editing. Integrated file management via FTP. Can jump between WYSIWYG Editing Mode and HTML using tabs. Tabbed editing to make working on multiple pages. Support for forms, tables, and templates. Download at [www.nvu.com]
37. Slide 37: Nvu
38. Slide 38: Best Calendar Yahoo Calendar
39. Slide 39: Yahoo Calendar calendar.yahoo.com Access dates and meetings from anywhere, anytime. Share your calendar with specific friends and colleagues. Remember important dates, set up automatic reminders. Let you easily insert holidays, local weather reports, and events from Yahoo Groups into your calendar. Optional software syncs your calendar with Outlook, Outlook Express, and Palm PDAs.
40. Slide 40: Yahoo Calendar
41. Slide 41: Best Maps Google Earth & Google Maps
42. Slide 42: Google Earth Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. Fly to your house. Just type in an address, press Search, and you’ll zoom right in. Search for schools, parks, restaurants, and hotels. Get driving directions. With Google Earth 4, you can tilt and rotate the view to see 3D terrain and buildings. Save and share your searches and favorites. Download at [earth.google.com]
43. Slide 43: Google Earth
44. Slide 44: Google Maps Offer powerful, user-friendly mapping technology and local business information- including business locations, contact information, and driving directions. Provide satellite imagery. Can search for some locations using latitude and longitude coordinates on Google Map. Offer driving directions. Can use Google Maps on mobile devices. Access at [maps.google.com]
45. Slide 45: Google Maps
46. Slide 46: Best Image Editing Software GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)
47. Slide 47: GIMP Open source, multiplatform, and multilingual image editing software. Can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. Expandable and extensible. Designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions for additional functions. Download at [www.gimp.org]
48. Slide 48: GIMP
49. Slide 49: Honorable Mention Irfanview www.irfanview.com
50. Slide 50: Honorable Mention Picasa picasa.google.com
51. Slide 51: Best Photo Hosting Flickr
52. Slide 52: Flickr www.flickr.com Photo-sharing service makes uploading pictures, sharing them with others, or posting them to your Weblog. Visitors can leave comments on every photo. Set privacy levels on each photo and decide. who can see them and comment on them. Upload photos by email or from your cameraphone. Using Flickr Organizer to sort all your photos into Sets, which are sort of like albums.
53. Slide 53: Flickr
54. Slide 54: Best Audio Editing Tool Audacity
55. Slide 55: Audacity Open source software for recording and editing sounds. Available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. Record live audio. Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files. Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together. Change the speed or pitch of a recording. Download at [audacity.sourceforge.net]
56. Slide 56: Audacity
57. Slide 57: Audacity
58. Slide 58: Best Video Editor Movie Maker
59. Slide 59: Movie Maker For Windows XP only. Create, edit, and share home movies. Add special effects, music, and narration. Share your movie over the Web or master it to DVD media. Save in WMV format only. Download at: [www.microsoft.com/moviemaker]
60. Slide 60: Movie Maker
61. Slide 61: Best Video Converter Super
62. Slide 62: Super A Multimedia Encoder and a Multimedia Player. Play and convert full length movies to any other format. Require NO additional external codec to be installed. Supported input source file formats: Video format: 3gp/3g2(Nokia,Siemens,Sony,Ericsson) asf, avi (DivX,H263,H264,XviD,MPEG4, etc..), dat, fli, flc, flv, mkv, mpg (Mpeg I,Mpeg II), mov, mp4, ogg, qt, rm, ram, rmvb, str (Play Station), swf, ts (HDTV), viv, vob, wmv. Audio format: aac, ac3, amr, mmf, mp2, mp3, mp4, mpc, ogg, ra, wav, wma. Supports the conversion (encoding both ways, to & from ) of the listed formats Download at: [www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.htm]
63. Slide 63: Super
64. Slide 64: Best Screencasting CamStudio
65. Slide 65: CamStudio Desktop Screen Recorder Similar to Camtasia. Record activity from your screen and audio from a microphone into AVI video files. Can convert the AVIs into Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) using its built-in SWF Producer. Download at [www.camstudio.org]
66. Slide 66: CamStudio
67. Slide 67: Best Anti-Virus Software Avast Home Edition
68. Slide 68: Avast Home Edition For home users and non-commercial use. Include more than 7 different varieties of shields, safe-surfing tools, and real-time virus protection for your system as well as for Outlook. Both the virus database and the program itself can be updated automatically. Work with Windows and Linux Download at [www.avast.com]
69. Slide 69: Avast Home Edition
70. Slide 70: Best Anti-Spam Tool Spybot Search and Destroy
71. Slide 71: Spybot Search and Destroy Find and delete spyware. Continuously monitor your system for changes. Has on-demand scanning, real-time prevention, and detailed settings. Give you an opportunity to permit or disallow critical Registry modifications before they happen. Download at [www.safer-networking.org]
72. Slide 72: Spybot Search and Destroy
73. Slide 73: Best Backup Services Mozy
74. Slide 74: Mozy Online backup and file synchronization. Allow you browse through 30 days’ worth of backups to locate pervious versions of files. Can halt backups if the CPU usage exceeds a certain percentage. Get 2GB for free. Work with Mac and Windows. Download at [www.mozy.com]
75. Slide 75: Best Test Maker Hot Potatoes
76. Slide 76: Hot Potatoes Include six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled- sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the Web. Not a freeware, but it is free for teachers. Create Web-based tests which can stand alone or be linked to other tests to form a sequence of tasks. Students can correct their own work based on the clues and feedback set up in advance by the teacher. Allow the teacher to specify an email address to which scores are sent. Download at [hotpot.uvic.ca]
77. Slide 77: Hot Potatoes
78. Slide 78: Hot Potatoes
79. Slide 79: Hot Potatoes
80. Slide 80: THE END Questions or Comments? Thank You for Attending Our session! This presentation is available on the Web at: dragon.ep.usm.edu/~yuen/present/mbea/mbea07a.pdf