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There are several FREE applications and software available for anyone to use. Below is a listing of a few applications that can be useful for integrating technology in education.
 Audacity – a Free Sound Recorder and Editor
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Audio and video can be integrated into the curriculum in a variety of ways, depending on the discipline, as well as the teaching and learning goals. Audacity is an excellent FREE sound editor, which offers all features in a simple user-oriented environment. It runs on PC, Mac, and Linux, and allows great sound options such as cut/paste and insert silence/mono-stereo. The software supports uncompressed audio standards such as WAV and AIFF in addition to OGG and MP3 files. It includes a very clear tutorial as well.
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Sample Audio
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| authorPOINT™ Lite – a Free PowerPoint to Flash Converter
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authorPOINT™ Lite is a free PowerPoint to Flash converter that quickly and easily converts PowerPoint presentations to Flash. It is easy-to-use, and provides fast, accurate and high quality conversions of PowerPoint (.ppt, .pps, .pptx and .ppsx) to Flash (.swf).
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Sample authorPOINT™ Presentation
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| CamStudio – a Free Screen Activity Recorder
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Using CamStudio you are no longer restricted to class time and location to be able to present and give a lecture to your students. You can simply record your presentation and place it on Moodle or on your website. Your students can view it from any PC connected to the Internet anywhere in the world. The value of CamStudio is that, if your presentation includes opening more than one file or typing some text, it can record all these actions and replay them for the viewer. CamStudio is a tool for recording screen activity in standard AVI video files. If you move the cursor, launch a new program, type some text, click a few buttons, or select some menus, anything that you see on your screen will be recorded by CamStudio for later replay. You can use CamStudio to:
- Record a lecture
- Record videos in which you demonstrate to your students the features of a new software or application. When shown to students, the recording of the movement of the cursor, the selection of menus, the entering of text, or the display of messages will illustrate features and usage of the program in a short period time with maximum clarity
- Record a movie stream being played on your computer
- Convert AVI files to Flash (SWF) files
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Sample Screen Captures
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| Primo PDF – a Free PDF Creator
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PrimoPDF is a free and easy to use PDF converter. You can convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other printable file types into a PDF format. It enables you to set security for your PDF document, so that you can control what type of actions users can perform on the file.
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Some applications do not require downloading. These online applications or web applications are available to anyone with an internet connection.
| BibMe: Fast and Easy Bibliography Maker
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 BibMe is a free automatic bibliography generator that supports MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian formatting. It’s your comprehensive source for all bibliography services. BibMe has come a long way in delivering an easy-to-use product to its users. With BibMe the user can cite works in the following formats: book, film, journal, magazine, newspaper, website, or others such as encyclopedia, interview, radio/TV, etc. Start citing!
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| Flashcards - by Microsoft Education Labs
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 Flashcards is a web application that allows you to create, share, and study online flashcards. Flashcards are grouped in decks. Decks can have up to 300 cards, and each card can have any combination of text, image, and sound on the front and the back. With Flashcards you can:
- Browse and use already existing flashcards
- Create and manage your own decks and flashcards
- Share your own flashcards with the community
Faculty members from different disciplines can use Flashcards as interactive studying tools with their students. They can create decks of cards and give them to the students to study with, optionally the students can submit back a report of their progress. The report is generated automatically by the Flashcards web application.
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| Molecular Workbench – a Free Molecular Simulator
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" The Molecular Workbench (MW) software offers interactive visual simulations that have been widely used to teach science and engineering.
It provides not only a powerful easy to use tool for creating interactive simulations (including molecular simulations, mechanical simulations and discrete-element simulations) but also a database of previously created simulations and activities that contains user interfaces, writing guided activities, report and assessment tools for collecting data and measuring learning."
The website contains demos and simulations for different subjects in Physics, Chemistry and Biology. The MW software is user friendly, interactive and fun to use.
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Sample Simulations
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| Peter's Online Typing Course
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 "Peter's Online Typing Course" can make you "a typing hero!" And for free! You simply need to go to the website and start learning. No need to download any software.
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Some applications require Add-ins to increase their functionality. These Add-ins are usually available freely for anyone to download and use.
| Chemistry Add-in for Word - an MS Word plug-in for easy use of chemical structures
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The Chemistry Add-in provides a simple and flexible way to include chemical information in a Word document. With the Chemistry Add-in, you can:
- Create inline "chemistry zones" to represent chemical data
- Display chemical information in a variety of ways
- Display print-quality 2-D chemical structures
- Accept chemical data in a variety of formats
- Handle most molecules
- Store and expose chemical information in a semantically rich manner
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- Close all Word documents
- Download the ChemistryAddinforWordBeta2.zip to your hard drive
- Extract the contents of the .zip file to a folder
- Navigate to that folder and run Setup.exe, which runs the standard MSI installation wizard
- Use the installation wizard to install the Chemistry Add-in
Learn How to Use the Chemistry Add-in
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