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Top 10 Free Tools You can Integrate into Blackboard or WebCT

Top 10 Free Tools You can Integrate into Blackboard or WebCT

June 20, 2007 11:00 am at the Canadian E-Learning Conference and on July 10, 2007 at the Blackboard World 07 Conference

Presenters: Rod Corbett (403-440-6220), Mount Royal College, and  Andrew Reil (403-440-7002), Mount Royal College

There are many free and easy to use learning tools available online and many of them can be integrated into your Blackboard or WebCT courses without even bothering your IT support staff, legally. This session will introduce you to the top ten tools that you can use to enhance learning in your courses. They include tools for creating audio and multimedia presentations, audio conferencing, note taking, wikis, blogs, RSS readers and more.

These are all tools that you can integrate into your courses without IT support.

Tool

Description

Website

1.  Google Docs Presentations

with YackPack WalkieTalkie Widgit

Live or Recorded Slide Show Presentations with Audio

docs.google.com/

with yackpack.com

2. Google Notebook

Quickly copy and cite web content. Share your results.

google.com/notebook

    3. Wetpaint A group wiki and discussion tool wetpaint.com or wikispaces.com
   4. Blogger Use blogs for learning journals, portfolios or group presentations blogger.com

5. Audacity

Record and edit mp3’s (voice or other)

audacity.sourceforge.net

6. Wink

Screen cam with voice commentary, exports to web movie

debugmode.com/wink/

7. Google RSS Reader

Links to news of your choice, changes daily automatically.

reader.google.com

    8. Google Video and YouTube Embed videos into your content pages video.google.ca and youtube.com or teachertube.com

9. Google Docs and Spreadsheets

Create, edit and share word docs and spreadsheets and the web.

docs.google.com

10. Delicious 

Store and share your favorite websites.

del.icio.us

     11. Google Calendar Share and colaborate a course calendars www.google.com/calendar

12. Google Page Creator

Easy creation and management of a website. Students too.

pages.google.com

13.  Picasa

Make and store your own pictures. Students too.

picasa.google.com

14. Hot Potatoes

Create online learning tools.

hotpot.uvic.ca

     15. ThumbStacks.com Create and Share presentations online thumbstacks.com

16. Zamzar

Convert many types of files into other formats (i.e. Word to PDF and PDF to Word)

zamzar.com/

    17. Google Groups Large and small group tools and spaces groups.google.com

18. Bubble.us

Create collaborative concept maps online

bubble.us

    19. Facebook Community building facebook.com
     20. My Space Show your work myspace.com

Access this document online at www2.mtroyal.ca/~rcorbett

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