Software And Goodies
Freeware / Shareware / Review Sites
- Freeware Wiki is a place for you to look for great freeware that's been tried and reviewed by people just like you. The only bad software you will find here is always part of a warning to stay away from it. If you like, you can submit your own tips and reviews here. It's easy, all you have to do is write your own review.
- Version Tracker is a searchable index of freeware and sharware (e.g., 'education')
Online Tools
- Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely created by its Residents.
- This is being used to study health logistics at the University of Arkansas
- Selectricity - Voting machinery for the masses
- Wikidot.com provides free and professional wiki publishing, collaboration and communication solutions to anyone who needs and wants it.
Content / Course Management Software - Advanced websites without programming
- Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power scores of different web sites
- Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
- Moodle is a free, open source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles that helps educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students.