Free web-based learning environment for distance learning and collaborative academic projects. Basic tools for communication and sharing. Primarily text-based and runs on low-bandwidth connections.
Teacher office suite featuring quiz creation, gradebook,
reports, lesson plans, assignments, calendar, individual grades, attendance,
and more. $40.00 per year, with other plans available.
PageOut
Free course website builder from McGraw-Hill (with adoption of any textbook).
Template-based design requires little or no knowledge of HTML. Share
content, create web links, post assignments, hold discussions. PageOut®
also has announcement, assessment, and gradebook features.
Free, filtered e-mail tool designed especially for schools.
SchoolNotes.com - Linking Educators to the Community
Create Notes for homework and class information and quickly
post them on the web using this free community service. Parents and students
can view notes from you by entering your School ZIP Code.
Teacherweb
Classroom bulletin board tool for posting assignments, announcements, and other
educational material. Free trial, $25.00 per year per teacher.
jConnect Free - voicemail & fax inbox
Use a j2 number to receive voicemail and faxes in your email
inbox. No fax machine required.
JotSpot
Free and paid subscriptions for building Wikis (online collaborative websites)
without coding.
Bubbler.net
Bubbler Instant Publisher helps you to create dynamic web sites, blogs and wikis
and update them with content such as text, images, video and audio clips,
links, and files.
Join a group and your email address and website will allow you to share photos and files, plan events, send a newsletter, stay in touch and chat online.
The WebQuest Page at San Diego State University
A resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with the web. Reading & Training Materials, examples grouped by grade and subject, search for hundreds of existing WebQuest pages, share your WebQuest and connect with other WebQuest users.
Filamentality 2.0 - Design Internet Excursions
A fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you to create and post a Web-based learning page through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into learning activities.
TrackStar - Design Internet Excursions
Helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites for use in lessons. Collect Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track.
Download the free Hot Potatoes suite of software, which enables you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web.
Quia - Create Quizzes and Learning Aids
Quia provides a directory of thousands of online games and quizzes in more than 150 categories, templates for creating many different types of online games, tools for creating online various types of quizzes, and more. Cost is $40.00 per year.
Quiz Center at DiscoverySchool.com.
Free tool to create, administer, and grade quizzes online.
Post or view homework assignments on the Web.$19.95 per year per school, with other options available.
On-line service that keeps teachers, students, and parents
connected. Allows teachers to post their classroom assignments on the Internet
and gives students and parents 24 hour access to those assignments through
a Web browser. $19.00 per year per teacher, or $195 for the schoolwide plan.
Create surveys, send them to targeted groups and analyze results. Free limited version.
Get feedback from site visitors to rate and review products, places, and ideas.
Social planning site featuring invitations,
social networking, and events listing tool.
ProfilerPro
Tool for creating simple surveys implemented via the World Wide Web.
Survey Monkey
Free and paid versions that allow you to collect and analyze survey data.
Free offline browser utility. Allows you to capture websites.
If you own Adobe Acrobat, (the program to create PDF files, not the free reader) you already own a free website capture utility. Education Resellers have more info on special pricing for education.
Download free StarOffice[tm], a full-featured, integrated Office Suite. The Sun Download Center also has more free-to-education products.
Download a free alternative to MS Office, which includes a word processor, spreadsheet, graphics editor and digital photo organizer.
A suite of general purpose software tools. Free trial, then
$29.95 for download.
AbiWord
Not a suite, but a free word processing
program similar to Microsoft® Word.
Free utility to capture Windows screens.
Share a single file with one recipient, up to 100 MB.
Yahoo Briefcase
Free storage and sharing, up to 30MB.
Includes memory-resident scanning plus popular e-mail scanners.
Also scans standard Internet mail (POP3/SMPT)
H+BEDV Datentechnik AntiVir
PE
Includes memory resident scanning but lacks e-mail scanners.
Softwin BitDefender
Free Edition
Includes memory resident scanning but lacks e-mail scanners.
Education World: Study Helpers
A comprehensive resource which includes a search engine for thousands of educational resources.
Know where you can find information on your subject. Large assortment of reference material gleaned from newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias and search engines.
updated Sept. 2005
Andrew J. Brovey
Associate Professor
Valdosta State University
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