Favorite (Free) Tools and How You Use Them

[Keith Lynip (UM-M)]

Colleagues--

What free technology tools do you use? And, perhaps more importantly,
how do you use these tools to good effect in teaching and learning?
Any tips you might give are welcome.

[Bill Freese]

We use Seamonkey for simple web page design in our instructional media
courses and for web based electronic portfolios.
<http://www.seamonkey-project.org/>

We use Google groups and blogs with visiting foreign students to
create class communication tools that will still function to keep them
connected after they have returned to their home countries.
<http://www.google.com>

We use Get Tube when students want to download a YouTube video to use
in a presentation.
<http://web.mac.com/simonvrel/en/gettube/gettube.html> (Mac only)

We use Singleframer to create animations.
<http://www.zachpoff.com/site/software/software.html> (Mac only)

We use Audacity for simple audio editing.
<http://audacity.sourceforge.net/>

Personally, I use Delicious social bookmarking so my bookmarks/
favorites are available to me everywhere, organized and easy to share.
<http://delicious.com>

[RobertSquires]

I thought you might like to see what top 10 tools other learning
professionals are recommending in 2009:

http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top10tools.html

Best,

Robert