Digital Filing Cabinet/Tools

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Several of the Information Age Education Wiki pages are about Digital Filing Cabinets.

Introduction

The overall DFC project is creating filing cabinets for a number of different disciplines and specific audiences. Thus, for example, a a third grade teacher can benefit from a Math DFC but may have little interest in a Secondary School History filing cabinet.

However, there are a number of discipline-independent components of a filing cabinet that are of potential use to a broad range of educators. Two major examples are:

  1. Tools (application software) that many different educators and students will find useful.
  2. General education articles that help to build foundational knowledge in education. For example, pages about the overall goals of education and pages about the overall field of Information and Communications Technology fit into this category.

Some Broadly Applicable Tools

Tools listed in this section often come in both commercial versions and free versions. For the most part, we focus on free tools. Note, however, often a school of school district will provide a tool to its teachers. Thus, the tool is free from the point of view of the teachers.

Your Personal Web History

If you are using Firefox as your browser, Google provides a service useful both you and to Google. This service tracks all of your Google searches and uses this information as you do searches in the future. In essence, your process of using Google helps to personalize your future Google searches.

Quoting from Web History, with this free software you'll be able to:

View and manage your web activity.
You know that great web site you saw online and now can't find? From now on, you can. With Web History, you can view and search across the full text of the pages you've visited, including Google searches, web pages, images, videos and news stories. You can also manage your web activity and remove items from your web history at any time.
Get the search results most relevant to you.
Web History helps deliver more personalized search results based on what you've searched for on Google and which sites you've visited. You might not notice a big impact on your search results early on, but they should steadily improve over time as you use Web History.
Follow interesting trends in your web activity.
Which sites do you visit frequently? How many searches did you do between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.? Web History can tell you about these and other interesting trends on your web activity.

Statistical and Graphing Packages

The Wikipedia contains a list of Open Source and a list of Public Domain statistical packages.

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R.
R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. The S language is often the vehicle of choice for research in statistical methodology, and R provides an Open Source route to participation in that activity.
One of R's strengths is the ease with which well-designed publication-quality plots can be produced, including mathematical symbols and formulae where needed. Great care has been taken over the defaults for the minor design choices in graphics, but the user retains full control.
R is available as Free Software under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License in source code form. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms and similar systems (including FreeBSD and Linux), Windows and MacOS.
  • Dynamic, High-Interaction, Multi-View Graphics: ViSta constructs very-high-interaction, dynamic graphics that show you multiple views of your data simultaneously. The graphics are designed to augment your visual intuition so that you can better understand your data.
  • See What Your Data Have To Say: ViSta's visually intuitive and computationally intensive approach to statistical data analysis is designed to clarify the meaning of data so that you can see what your data have to say.
  • Freeware/Open Software: ViSta is free and open. It can be downloaded from the web.
  • Platforms: ViSta runs under Windows, on Macintosh, and under Unix.
  • Languages: ViSta is available in English, Français, and Español.

Free Clip Art and Other Images

Clip art and photographs can be quite useful in conveying a message and in helping to hold the attention of readers. There is a huge amount of free clip art available on the Web. And, of course, one can purchase clip art and photographs.

Wikimedia Commons hosts only freely licensed images, sound files, and other media. With over 3.5 million uploaded files (Nov 2008) it is the largest free images only repository and it contains many public domain images. Media on commons can be used automatically on all Wikimedia projects just as if the media were uploaded to the projects directly. Commons is the primary repository of media for all Wikimedia projects.
Welcome to the Free Clipart Network - a site with access to over 25,000 FREE graphics such as animated gifs - backgrounds - clip art and icons - All FREE for you to download. This is your #1 source for finding FREE clipart. This site contains a lot of FREE graphics, you can't see everything in just one visit; Below you will find categories that will take you to our vast collection of images. Also - the archive is updated frequently - so bookmark it and check back often.
Now Hosting Over 30,000 Free Clip art Images, such as animated gifs, icons, backgrounds, bullets, clip art, and pictures; all free for you to download. Browse the many pages on this site, or, follow one of the countless number of great links that will take you to other sites. This is your number one source for finding free clipart. This site contains a lot of free clipart, you can't see everything in just one visit. On the left column of this page, you will find categories that will take you to our vast collection of images. Also, the archive is updated frequently, so bookmark it and check back often.
The key goals of The Commons on Flickr are to firstly show you hidden treasures in the world's public photography archives, and secondly to show how your input and knowledge can help make these collections even richer.

References

Author or Authors

The original version of this page was created by David Moursund.

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