Slide 1: Best of the Educational Technology Freebies Maria H. Andersen
Muskegon Community College
http://zumlink.com/BETF
Slide 2: *disclaimer I do not get paid to “plug” any of the programs I am about to show you.
These programs are all free to use.
Slide 3: FREE
Runs off the Internet
Ever-changing nature
Slide 4: Videos
5-min max
No editing
Flash files www.jingproject.com Screen Capture
Choose size
Annotation
Save as jpg FREE Mac or PC
2 GB Storage
Slide 5: FREE
Internet based
Limited to 7 maps
Advertising on side
Slide 6: Create a “landing page” for RSS, video, links Simple website creation
Google video is the only embedded video
Slide 7: FREE VERSION
500 attendees / class
Can’t log in until session begins
Can make 3 recordings & downloads
Whiteboard
Audio, video, and text chat
Slide 8: FREE VERSION
Advertising
10 participants
contextual chat
audio & video chat
desktop sharing students can each work on their own page
Slide 9: Virtual Magnifying Glass FREE
Mac, PC, or Linux
Small download
Slide 10: FREE
Non-commercial use
Characters are a bit silly
Can be embedded in course shells
Slide 11: FREE
PC, Linux, Mac
Works with
peripheral tablets
Tutorials available
Slide 12: FREE VERSION
30 questions per survey
100 participants per survey FREE VERSION
10 questions per survey
100 participants per survey
No skip logic or thank you page
Slide 13: FREE
Over 5,000 Interactive Demonstrations
Must download the FREE Mathematica Player
Over 3,600 Demonstrations are for MATH
The rest are science, business, music, … http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/
Slide 14: http://nlvm.usu.edu/
Slide 15: http://www.ted.com
Slide 16: FREE
Accounts can be locked if desired
Have to live with spammers
Only see about 2 weeks of tweets
unless you use a backup service
PLN (personal learning network)
#edchat, #lrnchat, #mathchat Tweet what you are doing
learning
thinking
trying
frustrated by
need help with
… Getting ready for the breakfast on day two of #AMATYC.
Slide 17: Tutorials
Jing
MathType
Jarnal
Mindomo
Google Reader Categories of Interest?
Online Math
Tablets
Cool videos
Algebra
Elem Ed Math
Future of Higher Ed
Math on the Internet
eLearning Past presentations
Online Course Design
How can we measure teaching
and learning in math?
Organize Your Digital Self Mindmaps
Online Math
Using the Internet to Spice
up your math class
Web 2.0 for You! Math Instructional Practices http://teachingcollegemath.com