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Alice

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Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games. In Alice, 3-D objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects.

Comments:
Thanks for the heads up. I am aware of Alice and I like it, but so far have not been able to get a student interest. ON the other hand, they seem to love the simplicity and are having a blast with Pivot stick figure animator which is very easy to get addicted to and can be a good stimulus for creativity.
Rob

How about Google Sketchup? Indeed, the whole suite of google tools for educators (documents, google earth/sky, etc.) seem to be a must add on.

I've read a number of posts flaming google for their "save everything" philosophy and fears that they will sell off all your personal info some day. Although I doubt that will happen, I suppose it's a possibility. What do others think? To me that would be the only possible negative to embracing the all powerful google machine.
Jeff

April 08 session
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anti spyware programs

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Many times your get programs or web applications for free, but at the price of tracking cookies, etc. I like to use Lavasoft's Adware, Spybot Search & Destroy and Microsoft Defender as my constant companions on the Web, and they are all free. However, I am a firm believer that if you use Lavasoft and Spyware, it is a good idea to support them with some cash to help support their further development.

The article in their FAQs is something that I recommend to friends who are installing these programs to clarify the issue. http://spybot.com/en/faq/4.html

Thanks to knowmate Mike McLeod for sharing these resources

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anti-virus and spyware programs

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spyware is always a issue when surfing the net.  Many times you get programs or web applications for free, but at the price of tracking cookies, etc.  I like to use Lavasoft's Adware, Spybot Search & Destroy and Microsoft Defender as my constant companions on the Web, and they are all free.  However, I am a firm believer that if you use Lavasoft and Spyware, it is a good idea to support them with some cash to help support their further development.

The two free online Web virus scanners I use are:
  1. Panda's ActiveScan. I mostly use the paid Pro edition.  It catches problem files that even Norton misses.
  2. Trend Micro's HouseCalls

Thanks to Mike M  for this posting                       Sept06
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Audacity

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Source page: http://www.audacity.sourceforge.net

"Open source software for recording and editing sounds....developed under GNU (General Public License)". (Will be back after setting preferneces for Mozilla so I can copy and paste.)
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AVG Antivirus

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http://www.grisoft.com

 

Grisoft is in the business of selling antivirus software so you have to dig a little to find the free download for home use. AVG Free Edition is available to home users only. Use of AVG Free Edition within any commercial organization, school, church or charity is prohibited.

Their website describes the features:

  • Rapid virus database updates for the lifetime of the product

  • Easy of use

  • No system slow down

  • Automatic update functionality

  • A resident shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run

  • An e-mail scanner, which protects your e-mail

  • An on-demand scanner, which allows you to perform scheduled and manual tests

  • A virus vault for safe isolation and handling of infected files

The free version of AVG is widely used and there are no major complaints other than the size of the update files for those on dialup.

They provide nicely written online

reference guide for the product.

thanks to knowmate Therese Weel for this resource                 April06

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Copernic desktop search

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http://www.copernic.com/

find any of your files, emails, pictures, ... easily and instantly

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crystal project

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one feature of the opensource philosophy is an open structure for development of tools/materials/programs

this development is created through the efforts of a variety of individuals working together and then sharing under an open source licence

if you are looking for icons - check out the Crystal Project:

Currently, the Crystal Project, has more than 1300 icons in six different sizes, divided into the following categories: Actions, Apps, Files Systems, Devices and Mime Types. Get to know the complete theme, please, click on the Downloads section.

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DimDim

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 DimDim
is the Open Source web conferencing company.

With Dimdim you can show Presentations, Applications and Desktops to any other person over the internet. You can chat, show your webcam and talk with others in the meeting

At the moment it is available for I.E 6 and Firefox 1.5

Dokeos

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A free software for learning and collaboration

Dokeos is an Open Source elearning and course management web application translated in 34 languages and helping more than 1.000 organisations worldwide to manage learning and collaboration activitie

thanks to knowmate Andreas Buesing for this opensource tool       Sept06
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eXe

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The eLearning XHTML editor (eXe) is a web-based authoring environment designed to assist teachers and academics in the design, development and publishing of web-based learning and teaching materials without the need to become proficient in HTML, XML or complicated web-publishing applications.

The eXe project was conceived to address the use of technology in the design and authoring of learning resources for the web. Initial research showed that while there are many web authoring tools available their usability and sophistication varied considerably. We identified the need for a tool to specifically assist teachers and academics to publish professional looking web pages according to the structure and form required for good teaching, and in such a way that this content could be integrated with existing LMS applications.

Thanks to knowmate Andreas Buesing for recommending this opensource tool
July06
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