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Category Archives: Math

Poll Everywhere – Text your response

May 17th, 2010

http://www.polleverywhere.com/

Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It’s the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere. It can help you to raise money by letting people pledge via text messaging. Its simplicity and flexibility are earning rave reviews.

Poll Everywhere can be used in: audience choice awards, opinion polling, and very large group brainstorming activities. Customers have also found many creative uses: conduct quick comprehension checks in training, replace expensive classroom clickers, collect donation pledges, power silent auctions, let large audiences submit questions and feedback to a presenter, and even as an anonymous way to collect answers to sensitive questions.

Wordle – Artistic Word Clouds

November 20th, 2008

Wordle

http://www.wordle.net/

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Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Musopen! – copyright free music

September 15th, 2008

Musopen!

www.musopen.com

Musopen is an online music library of copyright free music (public domain music). We want to give the world access to music, without the legal hassles so common today. There is a great deal of music that has expired copyrights, but almost no recordings of this music is in the public domain. We aim to record or obtain recordings that have no copyrights so that our visitors may listen, re-use, or in any way enjoy music. Put simply, our mission is to set music free.
Musopen is a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity.

Jing – Screen capture and share

September 8th, 2008

Jing Logo

http://www.jingproject.com/

Think of Jing as a supplement to all your chat discussions, email threads, forum posts and blog entries. It sits nicely on your desktop, ready to capture and share your stuff at a moment’s notice. Simply select an area of your screen, capture it as an image or record it as a video, and then click Share. Jing conveniently places a URL to your content which you can paste into any of your conversations.

Go Animate!

June 6th, 2008

Go Animate

http://goanimate.com/ 

About the site -

We are a bunch of guys who love animation and want to share our passion with the world! The problem is that animation requires very specific skills. Animators need to learn Flash or other advanced software before being able to create anything. They also need to know how to draw. That’s why we created GoAnimate, a platform that allows people to express themselves through animation without having to learn to draw or install any software.

Phun – an educational tool to learn about physics and more

May 2nd, 2008

PHUN

Phun is a Master of Science Thesis by Computing Science student Emil Ernerfeldt for supervisor Kenneth Bodin at VRLab, Umeå University, Sweden. The solver is based on work by Claude Lacoursière

Phun is meant to be a playground where people can be creative. It can also be used as an educational tool to learn about physics concepts such as restitution and friction.

Phun was coded in C++ using OpenGL, GLEW, SDL (for window management), SDL_image (for reading images) and boost, including boost_filesystem. Everything was coded by Emil Ernerfeldt, including the physics engine and user interface.

Watch the Video!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H5g9VS0ENM

Michael George