WEB 2.0 RECOMMENDED OPEN SOURCE CLASSROOM APPLICATIONS
OPEN SOURCE:
FREELY SHARING YOUR SOFTWARE Freedom and community are the moral goals of software freedom. RICHARD STALLMAN started the Free software movement started in 1983.
APPLICATIONS
WEB 2.0 Coined by Dale Dougherty of O’Reilly Media in 2004
2007 Security researchers warned that Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), a technology that many sites use to add Web 2.0 features, brings additional risks to the table for security researchers and vulnerability analysts. "AJAX is not necessarily adding more vulnerabilities to the landscape, it is making it more difficult for the scanner vendors to find the vulnerabilities," said chief technology officer for website security firm WhiteHat Security's Jeremiah Grossman, who is also a member of the Working Group on Web Security Research Law, the panel of experts has started to study whether researchers have any ability to play the good Samaritan and find security flaws in websites without risking prosecution. "The sites still have vulnerabilities, but they are harder to find."
TECH TOOLS
- SECURITY Tools
- SEARCH Tools
- FREE onlineTutorials and Applications
- Hot Technology Tips
- Mailing List Tools
- WebQuests
- Internet Tools
- Filtering Tools
- Leap Year Explained
- Proprietary format for making a ring-tone.
- HIGHER ED SCHOOLS AND TRAINING - FREE SOURCES - OPEN COURSE SOFTWARE - A Wealth of Knowledge Free to the World
- HOW TO MAKE A PODCAST VIDEO illustrates how to make a podcast using a Mac, but the main software, Audacity, is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
RESOURCES
- Public Education P 2 P Definitions
- Find Definitions for folksonomy and Resources for Podcasts, webcasts, audiocasts, Blogs, audioblogs, odeo, flicker, RSS, wiki, and smart mobs.
- Find definitions of Social Networking and the sites.
- Free teachers blogging site
- Web 2.0 for the Classroom Teacher
PC
Collaborative Word Processors
- Writely.com - http://www.writely.com
- ZoHo Writer - http://www.zohowriter.com/ (Seems to be better than Writely.com)
- Writeboard - another collaborative online program, but not based on a Word Processor format.
http://www.writeboard.com/ - JotSpot Live - http://www.jotlive.com/ - used for live, group note- taking
Protopage http://www.protopage.com/v2
Protopage = personalized news + sticky notes + bookmarks, all on one page.
Social Bookmarks
- Furl - http://www.furl.net
- Del.icio.us - http://del.icio.us
- Simpy - http://simpy.com/
- Blink List - http://www.blinklist.com/
- Jots - http://www.jots.com/pages/about.html
- Will Richardson's Jots http://www.jots.com/users/willrich
- Spurl - http://spurl.net/
- Portaportal.com - http://www.portaportal.com
- Sue's Portaportal - http://guest.portaportal.com/mac
- Social Bookmarking Tools (I) - (article)
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html
Social Networking - ex: myspace.com
- LibraryThing - Catalog your books (200 free)'
- TaDa Lists - To Do's - You can have a personal or collaborative account where you can maintain ToDo lists, notes, links, etc.
This seems to be incorporated into BackPackIt - Blogs and annonymous blogs
- Social network sites
- Photos - Flikr - http://Flickr.com
- Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org
MAC Programs:
- AbiWord Light and fast word processor.
- Adium Multi-protocol instant messaging client.
- Audacity Audio editor.
- Azureus Bittorrent file sharing client.
- BitTorrent File sharing tool.
- Blender 3D modeling and animation.
- Celestia Solar system simulator.
- Chandler Email, calendar, personal information management.
- ClamXav Antivirus.
- Cyberduck FTP client.
- Darwin Operating system.
- Desktop Manager Virtual desktops.
- DTV “iTunes” for internet video.
- Eclipse Integrated development environment.
- Emacs Text editor.
- Firefox Web browser.
- Fugu Secure FTP client.
- GanttProject Project management with Gantt charts.
- GRASS GIS Geographic Information System.
- Growl Global notification system.
- Handbrake DVD video ripper.
- I/ON “Internet video console.”
- iPodder Podcast aggregator.
- jEdit Text editor.
- MoinX Desktop wiki.
- MPlayer OS X Video player.
- MUTE Anonymous peer-to-peer file sharing network.
- NeoOffice/J Native OpenOffice.org port.
- Nvu Graphical HTML editor.
- OOSearch OpenOffice document search tool.
- Plone Content management system.
- Poisoned Multi-protocol peer-to-peer file sharing tool.
- RSSOwl RSS feed aggregator.
- Scribus Desktop publishing.
- Smultron Text editor.
- Solipsis Peer-to-peer virtual world.
- Stellarium Planetarium.
- svnX Graphical frontend for Subversion source code manager.
- The GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program, raster graphics editor.
- Thunderbird Email client.
- TuxPaint Kids’ raster drawing.
- Vim Text editor.
- VLC Video player.
- WikiNotes Standalone desktop wiki notekeeper.
- Xfactor Multi-protocol peer to peer file sharing.
Content Management Systems for the Delivery of Distance Learning.
Technology Tools For the Online Classroom
OPEN SOURCE FREE CLASSROOM COURSEWARE TOOLS
Nicenet Anyone can teach/run a class online for free with no advertisements using a non-profit organization of Internet professionals who give their time to provide services to the Internet community. Everything in Nicenet is offered free for public use, and Nicenet makes no profits from your participation. Setting up a class on the Internet Classroom Assistant takes about 2 minutes. You will be asked to choose a username and password, then a name for your class, some contact information, and that's it. Set up your class right now and is also a free blogspace set up specifically for education. The blogs aren't public.
Blog Tools
Hot scripts <> Community Server <> A simple Blog control for those that want a quick control they can use for free. <> ASP <>TriptychBlog is an open source, Microsoft(r) ASP.net 2.0 powered blog currently in development. <> Safe Blogging for the classroom
*FREE* program/resource portal used for online collaboration and instruction
If you are familiar with weblogs and WebCT, this has elements of both (and more). For anyone looking to do more with online collaborative tools - with little or no district budget - it's definitely worth a look. Free sofware to manage distance education programs.
Merlot merlot.org free, open source
Analysis: Evaluate Software for creating tutorials
The UT TeleCampus Course Development Team recently completed an analysis of the major screen capture software packages. The software packages that were examined include Camtasia, Captivate, and Viewlet, with honorable mentions to Turbo Demo and Snapz Pro X2.
Free Web server log analysis software http://www.extreme-dm.com/tracking/
http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/
Create an Online Class for free - Internet Classroom assisstant.
http://www.schoolfusion.com/ is free.
Postnuke.com gives you MoodleModular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment
easy to download and does not require more than a normal up-to-date spec computer to act as the server. It works with Apache and MySQL, which are also free, and is reasonably straight forward to install and configure.
Moodle is fully free software, and there exists a number of commercial support and/or web hosting services for you. Course Management open source option.
Think.com gives you free email and websites for everyone at your school
Government Open Code Collaborative Repository
The Government Open Code Collaborative is a voluntary collaboration between public sector entities and non-profit academic institutions created for the purpose of encouraging the sharing, at no cost, of computer code developed for and by government entities where the redistribution of this code is allowed.
Video Production Curriculum
Broadcasting Software
Video Communicator Studio
from Serious Magic (http://www.seriousmagic.com) for green screen (or blue screen) broadcast productions. It runs well on good hyperthreaded Wintel machine. Power Director 4 http://www.gocyberlink.com is a very nice video editor with excellent picture-in-picture and powerful special effects. Together, these two products give Windows users tremendous video production capabilities.
