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Software Resources

Open Source

Some of the software I have installed on my most recent computer, January 2007

Open Office
GIMP image manipulation software
Irfan View to browse images on my computer
Browsers in addition to IE: Mozilla Firefox and Flock
Audacity for recording and editing sound files

This site had a comprehensive listing free software in January 2007
Bear Bottoms Open Source and Freeware Research
http://bearbottoms1.com/

Shareware and freeware

Note that this information was compiled back in the 1990's when it was necessary to keep lists such as this in order to have the information at hand. These days search engines such as Google or http://www.download.com are probably your best resources for locating free software.

Sussex Language Institute Virtual CALL Library: A UK access point to call software (viewed online Feb 4, 2004)
http://www.download.com has an education section (viewed online Feb 4, 2004)
Jumbo, Inc. (http://www.jumbo.com), is a large freeware and shareware site with more than 250,000 titles (viewed online Feb 4, 2004)
http://www.passtheshareware.com (viewed online Feb 4, 2004)
http://www.shareware.com (viewed online Feb 4, 2004)
ZDNet's Software Library at http://www.hotfiles.com claims to be "the Web's most authoritative shareware, freeware, and software source; everything from nifty screen savers and system gadgets to desktop add-ons. (viewed online Feb 4, 2004)

Crosswords

There is a "Crossword Puzzles for ESL Students" project at http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/cw/. Anyone interested in contributing puzzles should read http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/cw/project.html

Crossword Maker allows the delivery of crosswords in HTML; however, the crossword must have been previously constructed. (Crossword Creator might help here; also try the Xword compiler at http://members.aol.com/westpolesf/cruciv.html)

Half-Baked Software

Stewart Arneil and Martin Holmes created the immensely popular http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/ back in the mid-90's. Some other projects of theirs from that era:

Markin allows teachers to efficiently correct student compositions submitted in electronic media.
Martin's Hangman demos are at http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/hangman/index.htm. This was in answer to a guantlet thrown down by Ruth Vilmi challenging Martin to make a hangman game using JavaScript. (Neteach digest 476, 3/28/98)
Webble turns Win characters to Mac (Mac version) and Mac characters to Win (Win version). You can get Webble from Martin's home page at: http://www.net-shopper.co.uk/creative/education/languages/martin/ (as of June 1999, per Martin)

With Echo teachers can quickly create their own interactive glossaries complete with sound. Echo offers the student word search, word and definition print out by topic and a language lab mode where students can listen, record their own voice then listen again as both the original sentence and their effort are automatically replayed for immediate feedback. To download (4.5 Mb) from the wizard in Oz:

Voxware

Download VoxChat software at http://www.voxware.com

Free e-mail on the web

Virus software

Please visit my resource on this topic here

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