A increasing wealth of high quality digital curriculum and free, open-source software programs are available today for students and teachers in schools. Yet despite these plentiful, free choices, there are still compelling reasons for schools to purchase or license some commercial digital software and curriculum programs. This podcast is a rebroadcast of a session presented for educators in El Paso, Texas, on May 3, 2006 on the topic “Outstanding Commercial Digital Curriculum.”
Program Length: 52 min, 09 sec
File size: 12.5 MB
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Show notes for this podcast include:
- The English WikiPedia (free)
- Google News (free)
- Global Voices Online (free)
- Google Earth (free)
- The Apple Digital Learning Series (bundled commercial curriculum)
- NetTrekker
- Inspiration Concept Mapping Software
- Inspiration brainstormed vocabulary on “Immigration”
- Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus
- Mac OS X Vision Accessibility features (text zoom)
- CMap Tools Concept Mappting Software (free)
- The ProScope: Digital USB Microscope
- ExploreLearning: Interactive Math and Science Simulations
- The Graph Club 2.0
- Frog Guts Virtual Dissection Software
- Measurement in Motion
- The $100 Laptop Project
- The Geometer’s Sketchpad
- Dr. David Berliner’s presentation, “High Stakes Testing is the Enemy”
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