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Shareware / Freeware / Cheapware software on the Web
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THE sources for tonnes of shareware (if you're sufficiently patient to download it!).
Educational
- utility software, some free
A
large range of freeware, shareware and demo software for Windows.
Also Worth a look
"Freebies"
of all sorts -- including many useful to teachers
Back to school cip art (Cyberbee)
Huge collection (About.com)
U C Berkeley Image and Sound Databases
M&M Software (commercial site but lots of freebies and cheap titles)
The Wizard of Draws' Graphics Treasury
IconBAZAAR (Icons for practically anything)
CoolText.com (This site doesn't just give you free text samples generated by other people, it allows you to generate them yourself. This is astonishingly useful for anyone making their own web page. Huge variety of styles and fonts)
Wave Central: http://wavcentral.com/effects.htm
The Movies Sounds Page: http://www.moviesounds.com/
Really,
if you're putting together a website a digital camera is a great investment.
The ability to take still pictures and short video in a format which is very
easy to include in your own web pages is invaluable. As such, here are some
links to reviews of popular digital cameras:
Review Centre - Digital Camera Reviews
MegaPixel.Net Magazine - Plenty of reviews as well as other articles on Digital Cameras.
PCPhoto
Digital Camera Reviews
Reviews of Educational CD-ROMs
Here are some good on-line sources for reviews:
EvaluTech (Southern Regional Education Board) VERY COMPREHENSIVE
Productivity Software for Teachers
Inspiration
An excellent visual-learning tool, for both teachers and students, to aid thinking about relationships. It allows you to view the same data in different ways: Diagram and Outline.Ideal for concept maps, idea maps, storyboards, webs, etc. Very easy to use and comes with a good manual. A Separate publication "Classroom Ideas Using Inspiration: For Teachers, By Teachers" is also available and recommended. Software: US$70 (multi-machine and site licenses available). Teachers' Manual: US$20.
Tom Snyder Productions: http://www.teachtsp.com/
An excellent collection of education software [for purchase]. My students and I personally used MANY of their titles while at SMEC, and were very impressed.
On-line Journals and Newspapers
Internet
Public Library: THOUSANDS of on-line serials (all fields)
Internet
Public Library: Newspapers (worldwide)
Access
to a huge range of Open Access Journals in the Field of Education,
from the American Educational Research Association
Australian
Capital City Daily Newspapers
ALL Australian Newspapers
Online
All Online Newspapers [in the world!]
Book Purchase Online:
Barnes&Noble.com
(Amazon's major competitor)
The rest are free:
Project Gutenberg: A biggest collection of free electronic Literature on Earth
(25,000+)
University
of Pennsylvania Libraries
USA
National Academy of Science
You can cruise the web for books and read sample chapters plenty of places. But we're doing something a lot different: full books, free for the reading, first page to last, and lots of them. More than a thousand, actually. They're available in a variety of version, including scanned pages in image format, hypertext HTML books, and Adobe Acrobat PDF.Reinventing Schools: The Technology is Now (USA National Academy of Science -- online book)
Computers
as Tutors: Solving the Crisis in Education. Frederick
Bennett. A somewhat wide-eyed but very interesting lokk at the topic.
On-line Libraries and Reference
Internet
Public Library: Great Libraries of the Web
Indexed by name and type, and includes a short abstract of a resource of particular interest created by the library.
The rest below are also free access.
Technical - IT online encyclopaedias and dictionaries
The California Digital Library
The California Digital Library (CDL) is a tenth library for the University of California (UC). A collaborative
effort of the nine campuses, organizationally housed at the University of California Office of the President, it is responsible for the design, creation, and implementation of systems that support the shared collections of the University of California. The CDL opened to the public - via a Web site linked comprehensively to collections and services - in January 1999. The Science, Technology and Industry Collection will be developed as the first shared digital collection of the CDL. Science and technology account for over 80% of the digital literature now available.
This is the premier source of information that can be found on the Web. Started in 1991 at CERN, by the
original creator of what is now called the WWW, The Virtual Library has become the central indexing point for a set of decentralized, subject-based "libraries". Each collection is maintained by authorities in that field. The Virtual Library Project currently is overseen by Gerard Manning at Stanford University.
Other Internet Resources for Teachers
Teachers.Net On-line Library (teaching resources by subjects / age)
Online Educational Resources (NASA)
Technology Education Federation of Australia
