Web Applications
From School Computing
This page catalogs free or no-cost web applications.
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[edit] Best Web 2.0 Software of 2006
http://web2.wsj2.com/the_best_web_20_software_of_2006.htm
[edit] Housecall
Web-based antivirus/spyware scanner
[edit] Calculators
[edit] Inflation Calculator
[edit] Survey Random Sampler Calculator
[edit] Collaborative Word-Processing
[edit] Google Docs
[edit] Gliffy
Free online application: http://www.gliffy.com that is run within your web browser. Some similarities to Visio.
[edit] eFax Services
[edit] eFax
20 free incoming faxes per month; no outgoing.
[edit] Encyclopedias
[edit] Wikipedia
[edit] Email Services
[edit] GMail
[edit] Hotmail
[edit] Yahoo! Mail
[edit] Flash Earth Google-Earth-lite
[edit] Online Video & Audio Content
[edit] Annenberg Video Archive
[edit] Harvard Video Forum
[edit] American Rhetoric Audio Speeches
[edit] Prelinger Video Archive
[edit] Online Quizzing Tools
[edit] Quia
Some free access; full access costs $. Quia is an impressive online subscription-based service ($49/yr) for creating games, quizzes, web pages, surveys, calendars, and more. It features a directory of thousands of online activities and quizzes in more than 50 subject
[edit] EasyTestMaker
With Easy Test Maker you can create free online multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false questions all on the same test. You can also insert instructions and divide your test into multiple sections. You can also print a master answer sheet.
[edit] Discovery School Quiz Center
A free tool to create, administer, and grade quizzes online. Discovery School Quiz Center provides a web address for students to access the quiz and emails the graded and corrected results to you, but has no database to keep the scores.
[edit] QuizStar
A free web-based program to create a custom quiz that others can take online. Quiz Star provides a web address for students to access a quiz and tells you when a student takes it. It also keeps aggregate data on the website for all quizzes taken by students.
[edit] Hot Potatoes
The Hot Potatoes downloadable program includes several applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for non-profit educational users who make their pages available on the web.
[edit] Quizlet
You enter a vocabulary list of any words or data you want. (ex. SAT words, history dates, French-Spanish translations, etc.) Quizlet gives you a specialized learning mode, flashcards, randomly-generated tests, and collaboration tools for classmates to help you study those words.
[edit] Typing Instruction
- Also See: Keyboarding
- Online Touch Typing Tutorials
- Typing Tutorials for Younger Kids - Excellent interactive site. You must have the Flash Player Plug-in.
- http://www.auntlee.com/typingdownloads.htm
[edit] Web Hosting
[edit] LunarPages
Free websites for public k-12 schools
[edit] Bananic
Not free, but only $2 - $3 bucks a month
[edit] AjaxWrite
web-based
[edit] Zoho Writer
web-based
[edit] Not free, but do offer trials
[edit] Quia
[edit] Unitedstreaming
Free for New York schools
[edit] Explore Learning
Gizmos for Math and Science manipulation
[edit] math911
First year free. Mathematics step by step tutorials for grades 7-12 and community colleges. Call 1-347-528-7837 and mention this wiki.
[edit] Callwave Fax Solutions
CallWave Visual Fax-to-Email converts incoming faxes to AdobeĀ® PDF files and delivers them directly to your email. Try our service FREE for 30 days now
