Free Virtual Classroom - (like Centra)

Hey everyone,
I know the OCDesign is over, but I found this resource. I know that I still have the Blog as a feed on my iGoogle page. So, hopefully someone will find this resource useful.


I haven't checked it out yet, but I will later.

WizIQ

It looks like it has a lot of the features of Centra with application sharing, text chat automatic recording, easy uploading of videos with quicklinks to YouTube videos, and a MATHEMATICS toolbar! Best of all, it is free for classrooms under 50 students.

Hope you found this useful!

PowerPoint Presenter Option

I was looking for an option that was free in lieu of buying the Adobe Presenter software. I found iSpring. It has a lot of the same features. I haven't got to check it out, but I have heard of it before. I will let you know more later in the month- I will be trying it out for use in my classroom.

Lots of Free Stuff

There's nothing like finding free stuff and what a great thing to add for my last Blog entry for this course...


I found this really list of resources to tons of free stuff from software to free courses that you can sign up for. There is so much that this website has, that it is a bit hard to describe. You can find free virus and spyware to free CAD software, free dictionaries and joke sites, free eBooks, sweepstakes, and free education. It is really worth checking out!





Freebyte!

More Good Free Programs

I know it's not my week, but I was reading the post below about free anti-virus programs and thought of some other great free apps. These are for opening .zip and .rar files as well as compressing files to .zip. These tools can be very useful when operating online. Despite broadband becoming more common, most mail programs still place restrictions on attachment sizes. The programs are Cam Unzip, which allows zipping and unzipping of files and ExtractNow, which allows you to decompress .rar files. I hope these help people out, I've been using them at work for months and haven't had any problems.

While I was doing my webliography assignment, I came across this website at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT). MIT has opened its education to the public. That is, people can visit the MIT website, choose a course to pursue, then follow the course materials through presentations, power points, and lecture notes.

MIT makes sure not to mislead its potential learners though, by stating that the program does not: "
* grant degrees or certificates.
* provide access to MIT faculty.
* Materials may not reflect entire content of the course"

If you're not expecting to obtain a degree from MIT, but are interested in some of the courses they offer, you can still learn what those brainiacs are learning at your own pace!MIT Open CourseWare Webiste