College of Lake County Licenced Software

• Respondus - A powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard, WebCT, eCollege, ANGEL and other eLearning systems. Exams can be created offline using a familiar Windows environment, or moved from one eLearning system to another. Whether you are a veteran of online testing or relatively new to it, Respondus will save you hours on each project. StudyMate lets you create ten Flash-based activities and games using three simple templates. The Flash activities can be used with any web server or published directly to a Blackboard, WebCT CE, WebCT Vista, or ANGEL course. You will need a password to access this site. If intrested call the PDC.
• SnagIt - Using SnagIt, you can select and capture anything on your screen, then easily add text, arrows, or effects, and save the capture to a file or share it immediately by e-mail or IM.
• StudyMate - StudyMate will import items from MS Word files and publisher test banks, making it easy to create interesting, interactive activities from existing content. Best of all, you don't have to know Flash programming or HTML to use StudyMate. You will need a password to access this site. If intrested call the PDC.
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Free Software

Audio Editing

• Audacity - Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
• Garage Band - The best way to record music on a Mac is now the best way to record podcasts. Podcasting in GarageBand 3 puts you in the control room of your own full-featured radio station. And new iWeb integration gets your voice on the Internet in minutes.
• Proganda - You can produce your own professional-quality audio shows with Propaganda software. It's fun, it's easy, and it includes everything you need to record, assemble, and publish your own podcasts.

Chat & VOIP

• Skype - Skype is a little piece of software that lets you make free calls to anyone else on Skype, anywhere in the world. Also, until the end of the year you can also make free calls to landlines and mobiles in the US and Canada from Skype.
• Google Talk - They say talk is cheap. Google thinks it should be free. Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free-anytime, anywhere in the world. Google Talk offers you:
• Trillian - TrillianT is a fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC.
• Fire - Fire is a free Instant Messaging client for Mac OS X. It supports the seven most popular Instant Messaging services: AIM®, ICQ®, irc, Jabber® (including Google® Talk and Apple® iChat Server), MSN®, Yahoo! Messenger®, Apple Bonjour® (aka Rendezvous)

Information Management

• FreeMind - FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map) software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click "fold / unfold" and "follow link" operations.
• Foxit Reader - Foxit Reader is a free reader for PDF (Portable Document Format) documents. You can view and print PDF documents with it.
• Assignment Tracker - is student software built for Mac OS X who's purpose is to help students manage & track their assignments and grades throughout all of their classes with assignment lists, reports and time management features.

Video Editing

• Movie Maker - Windows Movie Maker makes home movie making fun and easy. You can create, edit, and share your movies with just a few simple actions.
• iDVD & iMovie - iDVD: Give yourself the green light with new Apple-designed movie themes. Create Hollywood-style movies using cinematic titles, new audio tools, and real-time Mac OS X Core Video effects, then share them in a video podcast or save them to iPod. iMovie: Author and burn movies, photos, and music to widescreen DVD. From instant gratification with Magic iDVD to next-generation themes and an enhanced Map View, iDVD 6 makes it easy to make beautiful DVDs of your latest photos and movies.

Online Services

Blogs

• EduBlog - Create your own ad free fully featured WordPress blog at edublogs.org. Including free Yacapaca assessment tool from the Chalkface Project. In addition to a free blog, all users also get an ad free wikispace!
• Blogger - A blog is your easy-to-use web site, where you can quickly post thoughts, interact with people, and more. All for FREE.

Information Management

• STREAMLOAD - gives you a private and secure place to upload, store, access, and share your personal videos, photos, music , and files. Get 25 GBs of FREE online storage.
• Netvibes - Netvibes.com is a custom made web 2.0 home page solution. This service is free and gives the user the ability : to create a personalized page with the content they like; to put together data feeds and services from web 2.0 with a very simple interface; and to access your page anytime and from any computer.
• Gmail - Gmail is an experiment in a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that you should never have to delete mail and you should always be able to find the message you want.
• Flickr - Flickr is a way to get your photos to the people who matter to you. With Flickr you can: Show off your favorite photos to the world; Blog the photos you take with a cameraphone; Securely and privately show photos to your friends and family around the world; and much, much more!

Podcasting

• Podomatic - Get Your 15 Gigabytes of Fame - FREE
• PodProducer - PodProducer is a software that will help you produce and record your podcast. With PodProducer you can easily record your voice and add effects, markers, jingles, etc... over it. PodProducer is totally free, it does NOT contain any Adware or Spyware. PodProducer is multilanguage (English, Spanish and Brazilian Portugues)

Collaboration Tools / Social Networking

• Writely - The Web Word Processor
• Share documents instantly & collaborate real-time; Pick exactly who can access your documents; Edit your documents from anywhere; Nothing to download -- your browser is all you need; Store your documents securely online; Offsite storage plus data backup every 10 seconds; Easy to use; Clean, uncluttered screens with a familiar, desktop feel.
• ELGG - Elgg is the creation of Ben Werdmuller and David Tosh. The concept behind the system is to develop a fully customizable learning landscape. To achieve this Elgg is a hybrid of weblogging, e-portfolios and social networking. It is hoped this combination of features will provide an engaging environment for learners to create their own learning space and then connect to others, forming online communities of learning.
• Del.ico.us - Anyone can browse del.icio.us and see what others find interesting. Keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, restaurant reviews, and more on del.icio.us and access them from any computer on the web. Share favorites with friends, family, and colleagues. Discover new things. Everything on del.icio.us is someone's favorite - they've already done the work of finding it. Explore and enjoy.
• FURl - Furl is a free service that saves a personal copy of any page you find on the Web, and lets you find it again instantly by searching your archive of pages. It's your Personal Web.
• PB Wiki - PBwiki is the world's largest consumer wiki farm.Wikis are simple Web pages that let you collaborate with others.