This online course management system is very efficient and effective. It allows the educator to relay information directly and clearly. As a student, the site is very easy to navigate through. Assignments may be submitted with little difficulty and feedback from the teacher can be instantaneous. The website is very useful and appropriate for its purpose. From personal experience, I can say that moodle is an extremely easy and useful not only for instructors but for us students as well. Moodle provides a side purpose of being eco-friendly due to the fact that assignments are uploaded to moodle and does not need to be printed.

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Prezi.com is a website that provides its users a tool to use to make presentations. It’s an excellent alternative to power point by Microsoft. The tool makes the users presentation without slides which can be useful in keeping your audience’s attention by using a different format such as zooming in and out, rotating in different degrees, etc. The website also has a tab that allows new users instructions how to get started and tips on how to use its different features. This website is extremely useful in an educational environment by both the teacher and the student. The teacher can use it to make presentations and the students can learn it to use it for their presentations. Personally, I thought this tool can be used only if you have a Mac but instead it’s available for everyone and best of all it’s free for the public.

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Google applications allows its users to practically do everything you would normally do on a computer. The only difference is everything is stored online so you don't risk losing files because of crashed computers or lost thumb-drives. Some of the applications you will find on Google are Gmail, Google Page Creator, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Documents and Spreadsheets, and various Google sites. All these applications are free and provide users a means for organization.

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Mozilla Firefox is a free web browser. It features tab browsing, simple file downloading, and add-ons that allows users to customize their browsers to fit their needs. The most notable feature Mozilla has is its security. Viruses are less prone to attack and the system is pretty fast.

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Delicious.com is a free bookmarking tool that allows the user to store and share bookmarked websites with other users. Because of its served purpose, students can use it to share with other students direct links to websites that’ll be beneficial to everyone. Also, the website allows the user to write notes and tags about the websites so the user can get an idea of what the website consists of before actually visiting it or adding it to their list of bookmarks. Lastly, the website has several features such as a downloadable toolbar that makes bookmarking to your delicious account possible with the push of a button.

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Spicynodes is another alternative from the traditional power point presentation by Microsoft. Spicynodes is an online, non-linear presentation tool, similar to concept mapping, and can be run as a form of slide show. It generates interactive layouts based on interconnected nodes, with radial tree format and additional optimizations, such as force-based repulsion between nodes so they do not overlap. The layout is adaptive, changing as the user clicks from node to node, which avoids cluttering. Each node can contain formatted text, images, videos, links to other nodes, or links to web pages. Unfortunately this tool is slow when it’s time for show time. It takes a while to load to go from one node to another and that it is why I assessed 3 out of 5. Other than that, inputting the information into the nodes or bubbles is simple. It’s a matter of copy and pasting.

Schooltube is a great way for students and teachers to view and share educational videos. Just like YouTube, it is free to use and view. However, the content displayed on this website is strictly monitored so that everything that is uploaded is safe for all students to view. On this site, students may enter video contests for prizes.

Tokbox is an online video communication site that allows anyone with a webcam to communicate anywhere around the world. This tool does not require any download, unlike most video communication programs. The best part about it is that it is free. Students can do video conferencing and learn about other cultures from around the world with a simple click of the mouse. With technology like this, the rest of the world is at the tip of your fingertips.