Easy:
Asynchronous Communication (email, electronic mailing lists, e-mail
based conferencing programs, UseNet newsgroups, messaging programs)
Email Services: There are many: my favorites:
Web based email program:
Hotmail
(at wwww.hotmail.com)
PC based email program:
Eudora
(now free at www.eudora.com/)
Email/Voicemail/Fax Service: OneBox
(at www.onebox.com/)
Mailing Lists Services and Clubs:
Yahoo Groups ,
Yahoo Clubs
and Listbot (at
http://www.listbot.com/)
A Useful Free List is : Internet
Tourbus (at www.tourbus.com/)
Audio (speech, music, sound)
MP3: There is a universe of free MP3 stuff: see MP3.com
Synthesizers: Jazz++ is available from www.jazzware.com
Images (illustrations, page images, photographs, graphics, icons,
charts, maps, prints)
Clip art libraries: Xoom.com
(www.xoom.com/clips/website) and Barry's
Clip Art (www.barrysclipart.com/)
Graphics viewer and converter: Irfanview
(members.home.net/rsimmons/irfanview/english.htm)
Text and Logos: Cooltext
(at www.cooltext.com)
Icons: All Icons (download it at http://www.pcworld.com/fileworld/file_description/0,1458,4365,00.html)
Free Graphics Utilities (at www.katho.be/freeware/Graphics_Utilities.htm)
Synchronous Communication (Chat rooms, MUDs, MOOs; more complex
Web based iterations of synchronous communication include video conferencing)
Chat: There are many: I've used Yahoo (at http://chat.yahoo.com/)
Conferencing: See Me, Hear Me: Visitalk
(at www.visitalk.com/) and VRS (at
vrvs.cern.ch/Doc/)
Text (lectures, notes, syllabi, lyrics, poems, stories, examples)
Tons of stuff available, like Project
Gutenberg (at www.gutenberg.net)
Web based Power Point (Lectures, overviews, demonstrations,
presentations, conference papers)
Learn Your
Lesson: Screen Cam "movies" at PC Show and Tell (at www.pcshowandtell.com/)
Helping
Faculty Help Themselves a Powerpoint Presentation of this session (at
www.neiu.edu/~etlt/ppt/syllabus00/syllabuPPT1_files/v3_document.htm)
Classroom
Resources (www.netsquirrel.com/classroom/index.html)
Moderate:
Animated Graphics (advertisement banners, icons, cartoons, demonstrations
of concepts)
Animation Factory
(at www.eclipsed.com/) is a collection of many free pre-made animations.
Free Graphics Utilities (at www.katho.be/freeware/Graphics_Utilities.htm)
Assignments & Quizzes
Hot Potatoes
Online Quiz program: (www.hotpotatoes.com): see ETLT
Quiz
Respondus Lite (www.respondus.com/) works with WebCT!
WWWAssign
Online Quiz and Assignment program (www.admin.northpark.edu/lmartin/WWWAssign/)
see NADA
Quiz (use 'test' and 'test' login)
Downloaded Media (QuickTime movies (.mov) and MP3 audio, MPEG
video, AVI, and VDO)
MP3 (music and audio format): Many tools and programs
are available (start at http://www.MP3.com)
Free Storage of Media: Many available: I
prefer iDrive (www.idrive.com)
Repositories (web sites containing assemblages of materials
related to each other or to a specific body of knowledge)
Open Directory Project
(at www.dmoz.org/)
Google Web
Directory (at directory.google.com/)
Britannica
(at www.Britannica.com) or Encyclopedia.com
(at www.encyclopedia.com/)
HowStuffWorks
(at http://www.howstuffworks.com/)
Scripts (CGI: feedback
forms, online surveys, Javascript: pop-up
windows, rollovers and mouseovers,
dynamic
calendars)
Javascript
(start at directory.netscape.com/Computers/Programming/Languages/JavaScript)
Perl (start at http://www.perl.com/pub)
Repositories of Scripts: The
CGI Resource Index (at cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/)
Web Sites (may now be conceived and developed as virtual communities,
organizations, businesses, directories and indexes, online libraries and
repositories, art galleries, multiformat exhibits, hypertexts, and interactive
tools)
Free web page creator/tool: Netscape
Composer (http://home.netscape.com/download/index.html?cp-mestrtl2)
Free online courses and workshops, etc.: many, try
Hungryminds
(www.hungryminds.com)
Free hosting and building tools/templates: many:
try Bizland
(www.bizland.com) or Homestead (www.homestead.com)
or 20m.com
(http://free.20m.com/)
Example of an online course built with free tools:
Music
Concepts Online (at www.neiu.edu/~jalucas/muscon/syllabus)
Free online web-authoring course: Web
101 (at www.neiu.edu/~etlt/web101)
Free web course management systems: BlackBoard/CourseInfo (at www.blackboard.com/) and MyClass.net (at www.MyClass.net/) and Manhattan
(at manhattan.sourceforge.net/)
Free hosting and creation of web courses: Metacollege.com
(at http://206.67.61.236/homepage_KO/index.asp)
Hard:
Animations (advertisements, promotions, cartoons, demonstrations
of concepts, educational films)
Free info about animations at Hotwired (at http://hotwired.lycos.com/animation/)
Flash
free demo (www.macromedia.com/software/flash/trial/)
Applets (programs written in the Java programming language)
Java Development
Kit (at www.java.sun.com)
Many examples: see Flash
Card (at http://www.ericharshbarger.com/eric-cgi/j?flashcard/index.html)
Authoring Programs (presentations in the form of slide shows,
animations, hypercard stacks, simulations, interactive games)
Free trials of Macromedia Programs such as Director
(at http://www.macromedia.com/software/downloads/)
Databases (search engines, digital asset management systems,
demographic tools)
An example of a free CGI database is MCO
Grade Check (logon with "test" and "test")
Streaming Media (online video, audio, or slide shows)
Real
Media Tools (www.realnetworks.com/index.html?src=000321realhome)
Windows
Media Tools (www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/)
Books and Articles About Free and/or Open Resources
Free Internet Resources by Marni Ayers Brady: Hardcover
- 230 pages (January 3, 2000) DDC Publishing, Inc.; ISBN: 1562439979 (note:
this book is for absolute beginners)
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution Edited by
Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, & Mark Stone: Paperback - 272 pages 1 Ed
edition (January 1999) O'Reilly & Associates; ISBN: 1565925823 (note:
this book is most philosophical essays)
"Music to Your Ears: Getting Free Stuff from the Web? Nothing to It"
- Chicago Tribune's 'Your Money' Section, April 11, 2000. (at www.chicagotribune.com/business/yourmoney/printedition/article/0,2669,SAV-00
04110326,FF.html)
Web sites with loads of free stuff
Free Educator
Resources (at www.CCClearn.com/resources/index.html)
Gary Stager's Educational
Services and Resources for Progressive Educators (at www.stager.org/free.html)
PC World April, 2000 Issue (at http://www.pcworld.com/current_issue/article/0,1212,15373,00.html)
Internet as a Pedagogical
Tool (www.abo.fi/vocweb/inter-en.htm)
Phil & Moke's Secret Free Place
(www.maxpatch.com/)
Freebiestuff.com
(at www.freebiestuff.com/free/ea7y4z1032.htm)
ZDNet's (and PC Computing Magazine's) Free Download Pages (at http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/demo.html)
Freecenter.com
(at www.freecenter.com/homepages.html)
Freebiesandmore.com (at
www.freebiesandmore.com/)
Other great free tools:
Free operating system:
Linux (at www.linux.com/)
Free ISP's:
ISPs.com (at www.isps.com) lists them
(along with 'regular' ones)
I've tried and recommend:
NetZero (at
www.netzero.com)
Altavista (download it at http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/altavista/index.html)
PBS 'Show"
"Developing Web-Based Courses on a Shoestring." (at www.pbs.org/als/streaming)
Join fellow instructors from around the country on Thursday, April 13,
2000 from 2:30-4 p.m. Eastern Time. This program will be delivered live
to your computer via the Internet.
Free and Wonderful Faculty Development Sites:
Penn
State World Campus Faculty Development Program at https://www.worldcampus.psu.edu:8901/welcome/facdev101/
Virtual Resource
Site for Teaching with Technology at http://www.umuc.edu/virtualteaching/vt_home.html
Online Web Based Training Exposition:
WebBTExpo (at www.wbtexpo.com/)
Cheap Stuff, too:
Text Editor: Textpad (at www.textpad.com)
Shareware depository: CNet Shareware
(at shareware.cnet.com/)
Bargains:
Many available, such as Logitech QuickCam Express USB camera (at www.logitech.com/)
for creation of digital video ($49.99)
Footnotes:
This page was created by NEIU ETLT,
using Netscape Composer, Cooltext, and other free tools. It is located
at:
NEIU: http://www.neiu.edu/~etlt/freeandopen.html
Free Web Hosting Service: http://freeandopen.bizland.com/
Free Redirect: easypath.to/zero
The page is intended as both a print handout (for the Syllabus Conference,
April 13, 2000) and a web page, so the format is designed to facilitate
that dual purpose.
* this list of technologies is based on the Virtual
Resource Site for Teaching with Technology (at http://www.umuc.edu/virtualteaching/vt_home.html)