101 Free Learning Tools

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101 Learning Tools http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/

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Let's explore the idea that there is at least one excellent FREE LEARNING TOOL for every learning problem, need or issue?

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Internet Browser? http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ 001 Firefox

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e-Mail? http://mail.google.com/ 002

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Even my DAD knows that! Show me 99 Juicy Tools!

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Social Bookmarking? http://del.icio.us/ 003

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Translate Text or Sites? http://www.google.com/language_tools 004

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RSS reader? http://www.google.com/reader 005 Reader

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Calendar? http://www.google.com/calendar 006 CALENDAR

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Aggregate Learning? http://www.netvibes.com/ 007 Or: - iGoogle - Pageflakes

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Learning Management System (LMS)? http://moodle.org/ 008

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LMS Selection Tool? http://www.edutools.com/ 009

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http://www.nfomedia.com/ http://www.lectureshare.com/ http://www.edu20.org/ http://www.myicourse.com/ http://www.elearningcommunity.com/ 010 Hosted LMS?

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Learning Activity Management System? http://www.lamsinternational.com/ 011

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Collaboration Tool? http://www.ning.com/ 012

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Social Networking? http://www.facebook.com/ 013

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3D Virtual World? 014 http://secondlife.com/

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Content Management System? http://www.joomla.org/ 015

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Build Website? http://www.webnode.com/en/ 016

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Virtual Classroom? http://www.dimdim.com/ 017

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Hosted Virtual Classroom? http://www.wiziq.com/ 018

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Make Calls? http://www.skype.com/ 019

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Broadcast Live? http://www.ustream.tv/ 020

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Content Authoring? 021 http://courselab.com/ http://www.exelearning.org/

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Offline Office? http://www.openoffice.org/ 022

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Online Office? 023 http://docs.google.com http://www.zoho.com/

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Convert PowerPoint to Flash? http://www.ispringsolutions.com/products/ispring_free.html 024

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Web Authoring? http://www.kompozer.net/ 025

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Personal Online Notebook? http://www.google.com/notebook 026 NotEBooK

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Blogging? 027 https://www.blogger.com/ http://wordpress.com/ http://www.edublogs.org/

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Micro-Blogging? http://twitter.com/ 028

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Wiki? 029 http://www.wikispaces.com/ http://www.wetpaint.com/ Collaborative Development

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Record Audio? http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ 030

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Record & Host Audio? http://odeo.com/ 031

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Tell a Story? http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2007/12/50-web-20-ways-to-tell-story-alan.html 032

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Screencasting? http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ 033 http://camstudio.org/

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Hosted Screencasting? http://freescreencast.com/ 034 Or: - Webinaria - Jing

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Mind Mapping? http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ 035

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Brainstorming? http://bubbl.us/ 036

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3D Authoring? http://sketchup.google.com/ 037

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3D Studio? http://www.blender.org/ 038

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Photo/Image Editing? 039 http://www.gimp.org/ http://picasa.google.com/

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Photo/Image Online Editing? http://www.splashup.com/ 040

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http://www.customsigngenerator.com/ 041

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Image Resizing? http://www.dosize.com/ 042

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Screen Color Picker? http://www.colorschemer.com/colorpix_info.php 043

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Highlight Text? http://www.awesomehighlighter.com/ 044

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Create Flowcharts? http://www.gliffy.com/ 045

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Create Cartoons? http://www.toondoo.com/Home.toon 046

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Create Animated Cartoons? http://goanimate.com/ 047

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Convert Files? http://www.zamzar.com/ 048

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Share Slides? http://www.slideshare.net/ 049 http://www.slideboom.com/

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Share Videos? http://www.youtube.com/ 050 http://www.teachertube.com/

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Download Videos? http://clipnabber.com/ 051

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Test Big Ideas? http://www.bigthink.com/ 052

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Share Documents? http://www.scribd.com/ 053

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Share Pictures? http://www.flickr.com/ 054

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Create Quizzes? http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ 055 More options: http://delicious.com/zaidlearn/Quiz

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Create Online Quizzes? http://yacapaca.com/ 056 More options: http://delicious.com/zaidlearn/Quiz

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Create Crossword Puzzles? http://www.eclipsecrossword.com/ 057

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Create Web Quests? http://webquest.org/ 058

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Create Online Polls? http://www.polldaddy.com/ 059

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Create Online Surveys? http://delicious.com/zaidlearn/Survey/Polling 060 You Select!

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Create Flash Games? http://classtools.net/ 061

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3D Business Simulator? http://www-306.ibm.com/software/solutions/soa/innov8.html 062

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Learn Vocabulary? http://www.freerice.com/ 063

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Create a Search Engine? http://www.google.com/coop/cse/ 064

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Human-Powered Search Engine? http://www.mahalo.com/ 065

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Search Visually? http://www.kartoo.com/ 066

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Science-Specific Search? http://vivisimo.com/ 067

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All-in-one Search? http://www.schoolr.com/ 068

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Search Full Text of Books? http://books.google.com/ 069

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Search for Scholarly Literature? http://scholar.google.com.my/ 070

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Search for Patents? http://www.google.com/patents 071

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Energy Saving Search? http://www.blackle.com/ 072

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Search for OER? http://www.oercommons.org/ 073

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OER News? http://oerblogs.org/ 074

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Collect, Manage and Cite My Research Sources? http://www.zotero.org/ 075

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Site Usage Reports? http://www.google.com/analytics/ 076

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Visual Dictionary? http://www.visuwords.com/ 077

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Thinking Tools? http://www.mindtools.com/ 078 http://www.mycoted.com/Main_Page

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21st Century Skills? http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21/ 079

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Typing Skills? 080 http://www.rapidtyping.com/ http://www.typing-lessons.org/

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Reading Skills? http://www.zapreader.com/ 081

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IT Skills? http://www.edumax.com/ 082 http://www.w3schools.com/

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Learning Skills? http://www.studygs.net/ 083

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Workplace Skills? http://alison.com/ 084

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How Everything Works? http://www.howstuffworks.com/ 085

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Encyclopedia? http://www.wikipedia.org/ 086

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3D Human Anatomy? http://www.visiblebody.com/ 087

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Learn Languages? http://www.mangolanguages.com/ 088

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Visualize Human Development? http://www.gapminder.org/ 089

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Explore the World? http://earth.google.com/ 090

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Explore the Universe? http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/ 091

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Great Thinkers/Doers/Ideas? http://www.ted.com/ 092

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A Great Innovation Lab? http://labs.google.com/ 093

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Answer All My Questions? http://www.answers.com/ 094

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WAKE UP! Just a few more nuggets to go!

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Learning Tools Directory? 095 http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/

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Edubloggers Directory? http://edubloggerdir.blogspot.com/ 096

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Inspirational EduBloggers? 097 Clive Shepherd Elliott Masie Gabe Anderson Garr Reynolds George Siemens Helge Scherlund Jane Knight Jay Cross Jeff Cobb Joseph Hart Open Culture Patricia Donaghy Ray Schroeder Robin Good Rozhan Idrus Stephen Downes Tom Kuhlmann Tony Karrer Wesley Fryer Wynn Williamson Bryan Chapman Tom Hanson

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Learning 2.0? http://blog.missiontolearn.com/2008/02/learning-20-ebook-free/ 098

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Your Delicious Juice? http://delicious.com/zaidlearn 099

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More Learning Nuggets? 100 http://www.scribd.com/doc/4545960/69-Learning-Adventures-in-6-Galaxies 69 Learning Adventures in 6 Galaxies! Free eBook!

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Even More Learning Nuggets? 101 http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/