Software and Applications for Open Sharing

Software and Applications for Open Sharing

See also:
Software for Content Development for a list of software packages and tools you can download or access in the cloud to create content.

ISKME OER Project Flashcards: For highlight various projects and organizations involved in OER; used by ISKME for Hewlett Grantees March 2011 meeting

Communications and Community Building

 * Zipcast No downloads for anyone.Public when you want your ideas to spread. Private when it's you and a colleague.
 * OSQA OSQA is a free, open source Q&amp;A system. Users earn points and badges for useful participation, and everyone in the community wins.
 * backchan.nl is a tool for involving audiences in presentations by letting them suggest questions and vote on each other's questions. backchan.nl is intended for conference or event organizers who want a new way to solicit questions from the audience and make better use of question and answer time.
 * StatusNet an open source microblogging platform that helps you share and connect in real-time within your own domain.

Sharing Sites

 * NotesHub NotesHub is a place where students can share notes, papers and other educational materials with each other. The content here is 100% free and 100% submitted by students. If you are helped by this website, please consider submitting your own materials here.


 * AcaWiki AcaWiki enables graduate students and researchers to share summaries of academic papers online.
 * Omeka.net makes collections-based online publishing more accessible to small cultural heritage institutions, scholars, enthusiasts, educators, and students.
 * DocumentCloud If you regularly report on primary source documents, DocumentCloud can help you get the most out of them.

Open Content Tools
Images


 * Connected Flow Viewfinder Viewfinder is a Mac OS X application that dramatically simplifies the process of finding, downloading and using images from Flickr.
 * tinySrc a fast, easy - and free - way to reformat graphics and images for mobile devices.
 * TinEye A reverse image search engine. It finds out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there is a higher resolution version.

Citation


 * OpenAttribute A suite of tools that makes it ridiculously simple for anyone to copy and paste the correct attribution for any CC licensed work.
 * WebCite An on-demand archiving system for webreferences (cited webpages and websites, or other kinds of Internet-accessible digital objects), which can be used by authors, editors, and publishers of scholarly papers and books, to ensure that cited webmaterial will remain available to readers in the future.

Course Building


 * OER Glue

Analytics or Data Analysis Tools

 * Twitter Analytics (JISC) Spreadsheet Read the blog post for directions or watch the YouTube video.
 * TechSoup's online survey best practices blog post.
 * Semantic MediaWiki Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is a free, open-source extension to MediaWiki – the wiki software that powers Wikipedia – that lets you store and query data within the wiki's pages.