ICT in Education Teacher Training Series 6
Target group: High school students, university students, educators, teacher trainers

ISBN:978 92 9223 354 9

This CD-ROM contains a collection of free e-learning tools suitable for advanced learners and useful for instructed learning and self-learning.

The e-learning tools on the CD-ROM are divided into the following categories: Geography & Astronomy, Language Learning, Mathematics, Science, Programming and Memorizing.

Geography & Astronomy

• Atlas of World History
  http://www.atlasofworldhistory.com/
  This map animation software is an interesting way to visualize history.
  
  
• Celestia
  http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
  Celestia is a space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.
  
  
• Seterra
  http://www.wartoft.nu/software/seterra/
  Seterra is a challenging educational geography program with 70 different exercises.
  
  
• StatPlanet
  http://www.sacmeq.org/statplanet/
  StatPlanet is a free data visualization tool that lets you discover facts about world development using colour maps and graphs.

Language Learning

• Hot Potatoes
  http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
  The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications enabling to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the world wide web.
  
  
• EclipseCrossword
  http://www.eclipsecrossword.com/help.html
  EclipseCrossword is an easy way teachers to create professional crossword puzzles in seconds.
  
  
• Selingua
  http://www.wartoft.nu/software/selingua
  Selingua is a vocabulary training program with built-in dictionaries - more than 2,000 words in each of the following languages: English (both American and British), German, Spanish, French and Swedish.
  
  
• Selingua Columns
  http://www.wartoft.nu/software/selingua-columns/
  Play a ‘Tetris’-style game for learning French, German, Spanish or Swedish.
  
  
• Sephonics
  http://www.wartoft.nu/software/sephonics/
  Sephonics is a program that will teach you the English phonetic alphabet, which is a subset of the International Phonetic Alphabet. 

Mathematics

• Geogebra
  http://www.geogebra.org
  GeoGebra is dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that joins arithmetic, geometry, algebra and calculus.
  
  
• Graph
  http://www.padowan.dk/graph
  Graph assists user to draw mathematical graphs in a coordinate system.
  
  
• GraphCalc
  http://www.graphcalc.com/index.shtml
  GraphCalc provides an all-in-one solution from everyday arithmetic to statistical analysis, from betas to Booleans, from cubes to calculus, from decimals to derivatives.
  
  
• Maxima
  http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
  Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, and sets, lists, vectors, matrices, and tensors.

Science

• PhET
  http://phet.colorado.edu/index.php
  PhET provides fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena.
  
  
• Algodoo Phun
  http://www.phunland.com/wiki/Home
  Phun is an educational, entertaining and somewhat addictive piece of software for playing around in a 2D physics sandbox in a cartoony fashion.
  Note: Due to licensing issues, we can only provide a link on the CD to download the tool from the website of the developer.
  
  
• Solve Elec
  http://www.physicsbox.com/indexsolveelec2en.html
  Solve Elec helps users to experiment with various electrical circuits in easy settings.
  
  
• Virtual Lab Simulation
  http://www.chemcollective.org/applets/vlab.php
  The Virtual Laboratory allows students to select from hundreds of standard reagents and manipulate them in a manner that resembles that of a real lab.

Programming

• Alice
  http://www.alice.org/index.php
  Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming.
  
  
• RobotProg
  http://www.physicsbox.com/indexrobotprogen.html
  With RobotProg you can learn programming bases by means of gradual levels.

Memorizing

• Mnemosyne Project
  http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/
  Mnemosyne Project is a sophisticated free flash-card tool which optimizes your learning process. It is also a research project into the nature of long-term memory.
  
  
• Teach2000
  http://www.teach2000.org/index.php?hl=english
  Teach2000 helps users to memorize a foreign language, topography or even the history of Italy by date.

Each application has been thoroughly tested and verified by a team from the ICT in Education Programme, to ensure its effectiveness and safety. The tools have also been checked to make sure that they do not include any viruses, adware, malware or spyware.

For more information or to request copies kindly send us email: ict.bgk@unesco.org.