100+ Open Courseware Collections for Aspiring Web Devs - Web Hosting Unleashed

100+ Open Courseware Collections for Aspiring Web Devs - Web Hosting Unleashed

popurls | popular urls to the latest web buzz

popurls | popular urls to the latest web buzz

Keep up w/ the latest geek news.

http://www.playawaydigital.com/index_flash.aspx

Digital audio books that come with a player, battery, and headphones.

Links from conference today.


http://www.sjbrooks-young.com/id100.html

http://lazybase.com/

Ken Beck's Little Home on the Web

Blast from the past - best friend from high school.

PCWorld.com - Reviews

Tech reviews.

LibriVox

Free audiobooks.

ThinkGeek :: Stuff for Smart Masses

Fun geek toys and t-shirts.

Cepstral - We Build Voices / Text to Speech Synthesis

High quality synthesized voices in multiple languages. Support for Mac, WIN, and UNIX for development.

Instant Activities

Easily modified Flash learning activities: categorize, image labeller, and matching pairs.

Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine

Vintage 78 records in Real Audio.

PDA Participatory Simulations @ MIT

Creative use of PDAs in simulations.

Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools

Very interesting - cool tools in many categories.

e-Learning Centre Library Index

Useful articles and resources related on developing online courses.

Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net

Flash music theory tutorial.

The SimCam: Film and Digital Camera Simulator - Photonhead.com

Nicely done interactive simulation of adjusting shutter, aperture, and film speed. Great way to learn about effects of adjustments on a manual camera.

Audio, MIDI & music on mac - Mac Music

Macintosh music resources.

QT bridge : tools

Collection of links to Quicktime resources. Lots of freeware/shareware that i was not aware of. Digi-cut looks like it is perfect for A-B cuts in QT movies for mini-lectures in current project for Diversity Team.

Pleinpot: "fullscreen panorama on a web page:"

Interesting shareware to add audio to QTVR movies. Might be handy for QTVR tours of a teacher's classroom.

Poetry and Literature - Digital Audio

Hear Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, W.H. Auden and many others read their poems. It takes about 45 seconds for each file to start playing. Files are in Real Audio format.

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Additional poetry sites with poems read by authors:

BBC Poetry Audio Archive
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/

Poets.org Audio Archive
http://www.poets.org/booth/booth.cfm

Readings in Contemporary Poetry
http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/

Harper Audio
http://town.hall.org/radio/HarperAudio/

UBUWEB Sound Archive
http://www.ubu.com/mp3/

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wamu.org : The Kojo Nnamdi Show : This Week

Favorite talk radio show - especially "Tech Tuesdays" and the "D.C. Politics Hour" on Fridays. All shows are archived (back to 2003) - listen at your convenience in Real Media, Windows Media, or MP3 Stream (itunes). Too bad all NPR radio is not as easily accessible online.

Macromedia - eLearning : CourseBuilder for Dreamweaver Extension

Free DreamWeaver tools -
"The CourseBuilder for Dreamweaver Extension is the most popular Macromedia learning extension. It accelerates the instructional development process with more than 40 pre-scripted learning interactions, quiz and assessment templates, and the ability to track results to a learning management system or database such as Lotus LearningSpace, using an AICC communication"


Documentation:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/coursebuilder/documentation.html

Media Creation > Real Export Plug-in

Export movie files in Real Player format. Works w/ lots of apps including Quicktime Pro, iMovie, and Final Cut Express

Upcoming Computer Conferences

MICCA
Baltimore, Maryland
April 27 and 28
http://www.miccaonline.org/


NECC
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
June 27-30
http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2005/attendee_default.php

Distance Learning Conference
Madison, Wisconsin
August 3-5
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/

Expectations and Student Outcomes
http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/4/cu7.html

Research summary from NWREL. May be useful in online modules on teacher expectations.

Annenberg/CPB

Looks like a good site with free, streaming videos for professional development.

Garage Band Tutorial

12 Quicktime movies tutorials on using GarageBand for creating music. The site was developed at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

welcome to cf/x!

Lots of free/inexpensive plugins for iMovie. The site is regularly updated with new plug-ins. Today's free addition (Oct. 18, 2004) is one that wraps video on a 3-D cube.

Apple - iLife - GarageBand

Garageband website.

Engadget - www.engadget.com

Another gadget site.

MidiKeys 1.6b3 - MacUpdate

Use your Mac keyboard as music input device for GarageBand.

Simple Chord is another handy tool for learning chords.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14232

Class Timer

Java-based classroom timer.

SimpleBits | Mini-Tab Shapes

Check on related blog for variations. Use pyramid for Expectations course.

Free course management software:
http://moodle.org/


Free Portal software:
http://www.metadot.com

Assessment, Survey, and Game Applications for eLearning :: Respondus, Inc.

Tools for creating online assessment and activities for students. Check out free beta of Studymate - will export content as Flash files.

PPTtoWeb - Main

Extensive information on various tools and approaches to putting PowerPoint presentations on web with narration.

Bloglines | Free, Web-Based News Aggregator

Web-based rss newsreader. Elaine K. recommended this site.

NCAM/Media Access Generator (MAGpie)


Tools for creating accessible video.

Books for MacOS X

Amazing free book (and other media) catalog system. Gets data and book cover images from Amazon. Exports in various formats including slick HTML formats and iPod format.

JAlbum - free web photo album software

note: Check out Flash template later.

dMarie Time Capsule

Lots of fun!

Kidz Online - Tech Training

Excellent site with streaming video lessons on a veriety of tech topics.

Export the notes text of a presentation -- The PowerPoint FAQ

Good trick.

Index: Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration

Research related to distance learning.

Morguefile.com :: free stock photos archive

Free photo archive - over 20,000 royalty free photos.

Macromedia - Flash Support Center : Tutorial and Article Index

Other Flash Resources:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/
http://www.cbtcafe.com/flash/index.html
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/multimedia/shockwave_flash/tutorials/tutorial8.html

T H E T O Y M A K E R

Make paper toys - nicely done.

Wired Magazine's Gadget Lab

Love those geek toys.

free mailing lists from Notify List . com

Looks like an easy, free way to create listserv-like mailing lists. Mailings are one way - you send messages to everyone that signs up for the mailing list.