Information Technology
Faculty

   Information Technology

   Technology Tools for Teaching and Learning Online

A. Development Tools Across Disciplines

1. Capture/convert and play video
QuickTime Player 7 & QuickTime Pro
Windows Media Player & Media Encoder 10,
Windows Media Player & Media Encoder 10
RealOne Player & Helix Producer
Windows Movie Maker

2. Capture your computer screen and movements and also record sound
Camtasia
Captivate
Wink ***NEW

3. Convert your sound files
Winamp 3 player
Cool Edit
Speech and Transcript Center
FindSounds
American Rhetoric
Audicity
Audio Recorder ***NEW
Text To Speech ***NEW Cepstral Voices
SWIFFREC Voice to Flash ***NEW

4. User-centered and media-rich websites
Africa Focus
Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance
Stroke Stop

5. VR (Virtual Reality) Movies
Oxford University's Chemistry IT Centre,Oxford University's Chemistry IT Centre
IPIX Gallery
Active Worlds ***NEW
Happy Valley QTVR

6. 3-D Renderings
Teleportec Conferencing
Autodesk Maya
CINEMA 4D
Pietà Project
Cubic VR

7. Flash
What's Asma All About?
Cats and Qubits
The Mysterious World of Mummies
Flash
Xcelcius/XL ***NEW

8. Web Tools
Webstripper
Impatica for PowerPoint
ieSpell
Hot Lingo

9. Graphic Representations
Concept Mapping Software
Inspiration
Timeline Creator
Photo Story 3 ***NEW
Creating Online ***NEW
Picasa ***NEW
Google Earth ***NEW

*10. Tools For Online Interaction
Parade of Games in PowerPoint
Flickr ***NEW
Blogger
Writely ***NEW
Audioblogger***NEW
YackPack***NEW

B. Course Management Tools

1. Use a grade book on & off the web
School Maestro III - Version 3
GradeSpeed
Jackson GradeQuick
MicroGrade

2. Make up tests online
Quiz Rocket
Quia
Question Mark Software
Hot Potatoes

3. Create your own surveys
  Free Assessment Summary Tool (FAST)
  Perseus SurveySolutions
  READI (new!)

4. Prevent plagiarism
  Turnitin
  EVE2

C. Discipline Specific Tools

1. Marking papers the easy way
  Markin

2. Math Tools
  Mathcad
  MathType 5
  Maple
  Mathematica
  SPSS Base, 11.0
  Winplot
  "R" ***NEW

3. Make a drawing or painting on the web
  Zap Paint

4. Physlets
  Physlets

5. 3-D Modeling
  VectorWorks