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ONLINE Courses for Free! OpenEd OpenEd is a fantastic site/catalog for finding educational resources such as educational games, links, and videos. What makes OpenEd so great is that a user can search for resources by Common Standard or by keyword. Also, each resource is rated on a 5 star scale. [Written by dkapuler on Dec 11, 2013]. Otus Worksheets Otus Worksheets is the latest update from the innovative easy-to-use Learning Management System, Otus. This feature allows educators to create a assessment/worksheet for students to take inside of Otus. The questions can be T/F, multiple choice, EdPen, or short answer. Best of all, Otus grades the assessment automatically except for short answers. OTUS Register. Then, simply log into Otus with your Google account. We are looking for testers this summer to help us fine-tune Otus' website version before the school year. Otus the wonderful mobile learning environment available for students and teachers for the iPad, is now available to be used via the web on any browser based device (i.e. Chromebooks). This is the perfect learning tool for the 1:1 environment and gives teachers an all-in-one place to manage, assign, and assess their students. As w/ any Learning Management System educators can take attendance, grade work, poll, and much much more. Best of all, Otus integrates w/ Google Drive and has lots of video tutorials on how to implement Otus into the classroom. One Best Thing Priority Project: based on One-Sentence Project Daniel Pink about “one sentences” (see The Best Resources For Doing A “One-Sentence Project”). Here he is for review. Have students think twenty years ahead or further about what they want others to say about them, and then use that phrase as a helpful guide for how they live their lives for the New Year and from now on! Great New Year’s Project to help us focus our minds and time! In that resource link, you’ll find short videos from Dan, a hand-out I use, along with videos from my previous classes and ones from other schools in the United States. OnCore Education.com Oyster Oyster has been called the “Netflix of books” and the description is appropriate. Oyster offers unlimited access to over 200,000 books for just $9.95 a month, with new titles added all the time. Oyster’s mission is to connect readers with the perfect book. 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It has advanced search options where you can choose your content from numerous subjects. It has social networking features as well as tools to create and manage online content. OER Commons OER Commons: is a project created by ISKME (Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education). Most of the content created on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License. It brings over 48,000 OER for sharing curriculum with the world. OER Commons team designs custom tools to support OER networks. It has an efficient search options: you can discover new resources or search by using an advanced (with lot of filtering options) search option. Open Course Ware Consortium The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world dedicated to creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. It allows you to search courses in multiple languages. The above mentioned are the greatest OER search engines where you can find the best content from around the world. We hope this information is useful to you. If you know a few more search engines like these, please share with us in the comment box. Advice for online PhD programs Free assistance about choosing the best suited online PhD programs for professionals who wish to pursue post-graduate education and uplift professional worth. Visit Okinawa.jp What Happened To The Dead At The Battle Of Okinawa? | Watch One Laptop Per Child One Laptop Per Child creates educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collab-orative, joyful, self-empowered learning. Free and Open Source Software Very nice collection of free and open source software categorized by educational use. The list is maintained by educators. 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Open Educational Resources is a great site for educational resources for educators to post and find lesson plans in all different content areas. There is also a nice bookmark button that allows users to browse on a site then add it to OER by the use of that button. For top 10 sites for educational resources, click here. Oolone Oolone is a new visual search engine where search results come back in large thumbnails that can be scrolled. Orange Book 
Orange Book looks to a fantastic site for teachers to create digital portfolios of students work. Right now this site is private beta, so sign up to give it a try. It appears to be a very simple free app to use by taking a snapshot of a student's work and then allowing the app to tag, sort, and upload the portfolio to an online interface/site. OPEN2GO 
Open2Go is a nifty application that makes it a breeze to store both URLs and notes on your smartphone. This service is available for Android, etc. Open2Go is a wonderful web application for storing and sharing notes/links on your phone. Android and iPhone users don't need to install anything and just type in the code that is given to them after creating a note or finding a URL. Other users can install a free web application or bookmarklet for easy access. Free-OCR.com Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this service to extract text from any image you supply. This service is free, no registration necessary. We also do not need your email address. Just upload your image files. Free-OCR takes either a JPG, GIF, TIFF BMP or PDF (only first page). The only restriction is that the images must not be larger than 2MB, no wider or higher than 5000 pixels and there is a limit of 10 image uploads per hour. [Free-OCR can handle images with multi-column text and also supports more languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.]
ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITIES: Cliver Clivir is a nice online learning community. While not specifically designed for education, it is designed for people to share/collaborate on any number of topics and find best solutions to problems. There is a category for computers & technology which does offer some nice tutorials on issues/products. For KapulerÕs top 20 social networks for education click here.
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Top 10 Sites for Creating Outlines by David Kapuler: Webspiration Classroom From the creators of Inspiration, a wonderful graphic organizer that now allows for online collaboration. One of the best visual outline creators on the web. Quicklyst A free user friendly site for creating outlines. Quicklist also integrates with a search engine and dictionary for enhanced note taking. Study queues can be made as well. Knowcase Create collaborative outlines with this easy-to-use site that features a drag-n-drop interface. Thinklinkr A real-time collaborative outline creator that has a nice built-in chat feature to engage in project development. Checkvist A great collaborative online outliner that has an abundance of features such as: gmail/browser integration, mobility, and nice import/export features. CRLS Outline Maker Takes users through a step-by-step process to create an outline. Read Write & Think Outline Maker A very easy-to-use outline creator that teaches how to create outlines. Loose Stitch A nice fun site for creating collaborative outlines that can the be exported to a blog or website. Wisemapping More of a mindmapper than pure outline creator, but still a great visual site that teaches the basic concepts of creating an outline. Mindmeister A fun site for real-time collaboration that is ideal for creating brainstorms, mind maps, and outlines.
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Resources: Online Journals for Language Learning and CALL/Technology Research Any journal with an asterisk (*) means that it is searchable in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) or the Science Citation Index (SCI), which are provided by the Journal Citation Report (ISI Web of Knowledge). You may use this link to search indexed papers in the ISI Web of Science [V. 4.8] of the NCKU web domain, and can use this link to log in to the NCKU online library. (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
Comparing Online Translators See Ferlazzo's preferences for online translators in The Best Reference Websites For English Language Learners, along with sharing research from The New York Times on which ones do a better job. He lists Google as the best. Ethan Shen has just done a research project comparing Google Translate, Babelfish and Bing Translator. Here are his conclusions: The final data reveals that while Google Translate is widely preferred when translating long passages, Microsoft Bing Translator and Yahoo Babelfish often produce better translations for phrases below 140 characters.
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ONLINE BOOKS ON CALL Routledge Language Learning Arena (Taylor & Francis) ICT4LT European-funded online resource on CALL for teachers in secondary and higher education. Although not published as an online book, the structure of the site allows it to be used as such. Module 2.3 has a useful section: Towards Equal Discourse in Web-based Interaction. Theory and Practice of Online Learning Anderson and Elloumi's 2004 free access book is published under a Creative Commons license which allows you to read, print and share the contents freely (barring a few clearly spelt out restrictions). It is informed by the rich distance-teaching experience of Athabasca University (English-speaking Canada's Open University), and covers four areas in CMC for learning (most of it applicable to languages): ‘Role and Function of Theory in Online Education Development and Delivery'; 'Infrastructure and Support for Content Development'; 'esign and Development o Online Courses'; 'elivery, Quality Control, and Student Support Online CoursesE
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ONLINE SEARCH ENGINE TOOLS I-Tools Excellent language, internet research and search tools integrated on one page. Language Tools Dictionaries, word lookups, computer terms, (European languages) text translator, web page translator, and more language tools, such as specialized dictionaries and thesauri, crossword and scrabble solvers, more translators, etc. Webopedia Webopedia is an online computer dictionary for computer and internet terms and definitions. As such, it's the only online dictionary and search engine you need for computer and internet technology definitions.
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OPEN SOURCE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (CMSS) Open Source Content Management Systems The most comprehensive list of Computer-Mediated Content Management Systems (Click here to research and compare various CMSs.) Claroline Crossroads Online for Kids is a CMS for Grades 1-6. Guest Login Needed. Manhattan Virtual Classroom 3waynet Inc. and The Commonwealth of Learning (2003) This study first identified 35 open source learning content management systems, and then compared five of them: ATutor dotLRN ILIAS LON-CAPA Moodle Online classrooms for FREE?! A Review of Free Online Learning Management Systems (LMS), Saskia E. Kameron (South Puget Sound Community College Olympia, Washington USA). From TESL-EJ, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Sept, 2003). Proprietary versus Free Open Source Systems Questions to ask yourself or your students when comparing Proprietary versus Free Open Source Systems (FOSS). Open source learning This is the best Wiki Tutorial available about: IMPROVING OPEN SOURCE LEARNING CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS. Catalyst IT Limited (2004) This study compared three systems: ATutor, ILIAS, and Moodle. Moodle at DCU (2004) This paper compared three systems: Bodington, Claroline, and Moodle. WordChamp.com The most highly developed modified CMS specifically designed to help improve Vocabulary learning and teaching in 60 languages.
ONLINE EDUCATION SCHOOLS Education Whiz A guide to finding your perfect accredited online and campus degree. With over 200 schools listed, there are over 2000 online and campus degree programs available for you to choose from.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Oxford University Press ELT Links and Teacher Clubs Oxford University Press English Language Teacher Clubs
OCCUPATIONS: JOB-HUNTING AND INTERVIEWS Online Personality Quiz to examine personality fit for various occupations. Describing daily routines, skills and character.
ONLINE AUCTIONS AND SHOPPING Loot Advanced discussion of online shopping using classified ads. Home File UK Bushells Looking for apartments or homes in the UK (with photos) Net Trader Looking for apartments or homes in the UK. Use HomeFileUK Maps to find them. Bid 4 Assets Practice searching for cars, land and homes to buy in the USA online. Use Map Quest for US and international map searches.
OLYMPICS Olympic Games Olympic games, web games, olympic cities and sports. The Sydney 2000 Olympics Website The International Olympics Committee
KNOWLEDGE MAPPING Compendium Compendium is based on many years research on the use of such tools in educational and workplace settings. We know that "seeing what you're thinking" by connecting ideas on the screen can help in a personal or group situation. We have also shown that Compendium's visual information management facilities help people manage large amounts of information in an intuitive way, in education, research, business and government.
OTHER Question Pro Online Survey Research program with free demo. Learn Out Loud LearnOutLoud.com offers many speeches and books with FREE Audio and/or Video. One Laptop Per Child Give 1, Get 1 Laptop Program Open Textbooks/Textbook Revolution Textbook Revolution is the web's source for free educational materials. This is a student-run, volunteer-operated website started in response to the textbook industry's constant drive to maximize profits instead of educational value. Oracle The world's largest enterprise software company, Oracle is the only vendor to offer solutions for every tier of business -- database, middleware, applications and industries. Orkut Orkut is an Internet social network service run by Google and named after its creator, Google employee. Online Educa Berlin It covers Technology Supported Learning and Training. Open Learn Visit OpenLearn - open educational resources from The Open University. Free online learning materials for all to use. Educational Directories Unlimited Online Education: Educational Directories Unlimited is the bridge between students and educators, producing valuable services for educational administrators, teachers and students. Oceania, Compare Countries of Using Visual Geography.com Visual Geography is a nice site available in 5 European languages with images, information, and quizzes about 85 countries around the world. The text is accessible to Intermediate English Language Learners, and the images are obviously good for students of all levels. Good quizzes about each country, and a neat feature called "Compare," by which you can pick any two countries and easily compare their demographic data with the click of the mouse. Visualgeography.com lets you explore the world through images, flags, money, language, maps and other information. OCW.MIT.edu OpenCourseWare: An entire university online OneforIsrael.org One for ISRAEL: Amazing Personal Stories for great Listening Practice! Oneplace.com From Israel to reach the whole world!
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