I'm sharing this resource because, in the right context, I see true potential in its integration with teaching and learning. You can read about my ideas for teaching and learning with Squidoo at http://clifmims.com/blog/archives/197.
The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information.
ScreenToaster is a free online screen recorder which allows you to Make screencasts, tutorials and demos. You can record your screen in one click without any downloads. It is compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, Linux. You can also share videos on the Internet in Flash, embed them on blogs/webpages or send them by email.
Gutenkarte downloads public domain texts from Project Gutenberg, and then feeds them to MetaCarta's GeoParser API, which extracts and returns all the geographic locations it can find. Gutenkarte stores these locations in a database, along with citations into the text itself, and offers an interface where the book can be browsed by chapter, by place, or all at once on an interactive map. Ultimately, Gutenkarte will offer the ability to annotate and correct the places in the database, so that the community will be able construct and share rich geographic views of Project Gutenberg's enormous body of literary classics.
Use WiZiQ's Virtual Classroom for synchronous online teaching and learning. Equipped with live audio/video, text chat, document/whiteboard sharing, and session recording capabilities, this web conferencing tool is available for unlimited free use.
Secure VoiceThread network for students and teachers to collaborate and share ideas with classrooms anywhere in the world.
Group conversations around images, documents, and videos
Messages can be text-based (computer keyboard, phone text), audio (computer mic, telephone call, upload), or video (computer webcam, upload)
Can be used to put "instruction" online.
This Directory contains over 2,600 tools for learning in two main sections:
1. for creating, delivering and managing learning and performance support solutions
2. for personal learning and productivity, for sharing resources, as well as group collaboration (also includes some enterprise tools)
The tools in this Directory are both freeware/open source and commercial.
Consumers and knowledge workers now have the power of a relational database, combined with a user interface that is easier than a spreadsheet. Sharing blists online is simple.
Allows you to watch online videos without all the distractions. It removes the ads, discussion boards, etc.
Works with Youtube, iPlayer, Viddler, Vimeo and more
Quietube is a bookmark button that removes comments, advertisements, and all of the other "noise" typically found on Youtube, Vimeo, and other video sharing sites. Just the video remains. Can also send the quietube video to others using a shortened URL. Very useful in removing possibly offensive comments, inappropriate advertisements, or other distracting content on a website.
GoView made screen recordings easy. You can start recording your computer's screen and audio with just two clicks. Snipping out unwanted segments is as simple as using a pair of scissors. You can also insert title slides to add polish and act as section dividers. After all, your recording is instantly ready to be viewed an share online. It's quick. It's easy. And it's free.
