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This page was started in late 2015.
https://sites.google.com/site/lewstravel/home Find books in pdf online at :https://www.pdfdrive.net/
Bottom of page Stopwatch/Timer
Creative Commons Licence - Wikipedia explanations and Table
Check my ideas pad (Google Drive doc)
This is my dream job : To be a Geogebra Math teacher, guided, designer, game maker, mentor like Seth Bling with his Minecraft work!
http://www.tubefilter.com/2013/08/08/youtube-millionaires-seth-bling-minecraft/ (penned May 2017)
Jeanette Wing's 2006 vision article turn into reality quicker than imagined. A vision of a bright future vs doom over dotcom bust in 2006
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wing/www/publications/Wing06.pdf
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/computational-thinking-10-years-later/ (penned May 2017)
TED Talk - Josh Kaufman - About overcoming the barrier to learning something new - It's the first 20 hours that is very important for breakthrough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MgBikgcWnY
Article : http://www.gradhacker.org/2013/11/11/rapid-skill-acquisition-the-first-20-hours/
The OPEN SOURCE REVOLUTION MOVIE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsHh2wfy_-4
The book is at http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/
Watch You Tube about the tech aspects : Prof Simon KIng
Explaining how to set up a low-cost lightboard(transparent) for Video Lectures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYwXOLU4TKk
Current Printer/Scanner : Samsung -M2875FW Info and Driver Download link
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/SL-M2875FW/XAA-search
Online Curve Fittiing : http://mycurvefit.com/
Image Manipulation : GIMP Documentation help https://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/
Online editors that quickly remove background : https://pixlr.com/x/ https://www.online-image-editor.com/
Online gif maker :
http://ezgif.com/maker/ https://ezgif.com/split
https://giphy.com/create/gifmaker
Google AutoDraw (AI assisted drawing!)
Free Online Text to Speech (TTS) Readers https://ttsfree.com/ ,
http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/ (need to record using Audacity or other software to create mp3 file)
http://www.fromtexttospeech.com/ (no need to record, it can produce a edited mp3 file and downloadable) *BEST*
http://www.spokentext.net/ (signed up for online access)
Online Speech to Text https://speechnotes.co/ https://speechlogger.appspot.com/en/
Extracting Subtitles from online videos Use http://ccsubs.com/ Dead link! (Other cmd line, etc available , but prefer simple: See link)
Online OCR tools http://www.onlineocr.net/ (signed up under live acct) - Reliable, accurate. Free single page conversions good enough.
Online PDF converter http://pdftotext.com/ PDF to Text
PDF viewer/ text extractor http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html
Videoscribing tool (free accts) https://www.moovly.com (login by Google+) Very Good!
Physics Video Tracking Tool : (Modelling motion) http://physlets.org/tracker/
Presentation Tools Haiku Deck Zuru https://www.haikudeck.com/ (account)
Free Software
Categorised by Wikipedia : - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Free_software/Categories
Equation Editors
OpenOffice Math http://www.libreoffice.org/discover/math/
MathCast 0.92 (mathml) http://mathcast.sourceforge.net/home.html
WIRIS (commercial) http://www.wiris.com/editor/demo/en/mathml-latex interoperable, mathml (compatible with MS Word's mathml) & Latex (many other editors)
Math displays :- MathJax (Latex) https://www.mathjax.org/#about
Unicode : https://unicode-table.com/en/
Latex symbol lists : http://detexify.kirelabs.org/symbols.html , https://people.smp.uq.edu.au/PhilipPollett/LaTeXSymbolList.pdf , https://latex.wikia.org/wiki/List_of_LaTeX_symbols http://web.ift.uib.no/Teori/KURS/WRK/TeX/symALL.html
Sites with online game creation and or class assignment tools (free for basic acct)
https://www.peardeck.com/ class presentation and live feedback tool (signed up via google acct)
Classroom Management https://web.seesaw.me/learn-more/ https://coursemology.org/
BoardGame Development Engine.
Game Development Software
Unreal Game Engine (Free) (Licensing ed)
Digital Pencasts
http://www.mathematicsdigitalpencasts.com/ What they are about.
Paper on digital pencasts (pdf download)
SG Challenge
A journey-of-digital-innovation
Design Principles for Math Learning Resources, Digital, Simulations
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/teaching-resources/activities-design
Phishing, Cybersecurity Issues and Sources of Info
Sites dedicated to cybersecurity : https://intsights.com/ , https://www.imperva.com/
Search for Photo Source
https://images.google.com/imghp?hl=en&gws_rd=ssl
TAO HOSTING (open source personal assessment web based ) https://www.taotesting.com/
SIMULATION TOOLS
Anylogic (Currently very popular) Case Study Rail project video presentation
https://jaamsim.com/ (Good free alternative to Stroboscope?) See their google group at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/jaamsim-users/vRImCR4BD-E
https://www.lanner.com/en-us/technology/witness-simulation-software.html Witness Horizon by Lanner
EVALUATING SIMULATION TOOLS
Using Simulation for Instruction - Notes for Learning
https://www.learningpool.com/five-levels-software-simulation-and-when-use-them-your-e-learning/
http://www.ds.ewi.tudelft.nl/vakken/in4049TU/sheets/lecture02.pdf
Aldrich, Clark (2004). Simulations and the Future of Learning. San Diego: Pfeiffer. ISBN 978-0-7879-6962-2.[14]
Aldrich, Clark (2005). Learning by Doing: A Comprehensive Guide to Simulations, Computer Games and Pedagogy in E-learning and Other Educational Experiences. San Diego: Pfeiffer. ISBN 978-0-7879-7735-1.[15][16]
Gibson, David V.; Aldrich, Clark; Prensky, Marc (2006). Games And Simulations in Online Learning: Research and Development Frameworks. IGI Global. ISBN 1-59904-304-1.
Aldrich, Clark (2009). The Complete Guide to Simulations and Serious Games. San Diego: Pfeiffer. ISBN 978-0-470-46273-7.[17][18][19]
Aldrich, Clark (2009). Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds: Strategies for Online Instruction. San Diego: Pfeiffer. ISBN 978-0-470-43834-3.[20]
Aldrich, Clark (2011). Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education. Austin: Greenleaf. ISBN 978-1-60832-116-2.[21]
TAO OAT Online Assessment Course Platform : https://userguide.taotesting.com/3.0/advanced-features/lti-teacher.html
Sparkol Videoscribe : MOE acct : See ....
https://ggbmath.talentlms.com/ own free trial of talentlms (cloud based)
https://su.org/gic/2017/singapore/ Submit ideas by 5 April 2017 !
CHATBOTS : List and types @ https://www.chatbots.org/
Microsoft's https://dev.botframework.com/ (live acct login)
PandoraBot https://www.pandorabots.com/ (gmail login) https://developer.pandorabots.com/ https://playground.pandorabots.com/en/tutorial/
Motion AI https://www.motion.ai/ live acct pw Aisk
Chatfuel https://chatfuel.com use gmail or live ?
Converse AI : http://www.converse.ai/ live acct pw Cask8b2p
Octane AI : https://octaneai.com live acct pw Ocsk
https://www.aisingapore.org/industryinnovation/ai4s/ AI Singapore (Artificial Intelligence) Free courses and ideas 20 June 2019
Blippar AR user live acct pw : Bpsk
Unity3D user : lewws pw Utsk (mail live acct)
HTML/CSS Style Templates : ZURB style : http://foundation.zurb.com/sites/download.html/ (background to Background to Zurb Foundation
Smoothie 3D http://www.smoothie-3d.com lewws pw: Smoothieemplno
KODU (Microsoft Gamelab for children) https://www.kodugamelab.com/ Watch video on how to create a game using KODU (by a young kid)
Formative Assessment Tool Roundup at Edutopia :
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/5-fast-formative-assessment-tools-vicki-davis
Teaching your kids how to code
REVERSE IMAGE SEARCH
1. http://www.terrapattern.com/
Our goal is to provide a geospatial software tool that makes it easy for everyday people, who may lack expertise in machine vision, to specify the thing that they are interested in; to automatically find more examples of that thing; and to provide the locations of those instances in a common data format that easily allows for further examination.
2. Use Google image search (upload photo/image and Google image will give links to similar, from description in these pages, then try to locate where on Earth they are)
Readings 2 June 2017
http://www.happy-neuron.com/logic-exercises
https://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/problem-solving-skills.htm
1 Jul 2017
How to use Powtoon : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFv8L0z-72c
How to start a business with little money https://youtu.be/dbl9H-JjIQc
3 Jul 2017
Web page on learning interactive digital design
https://designteachengage.wisc.edu/instructional-materials/
Computer Adaptive Testing
Tool : http://www.psychometrics.cam.ac.uk/newconcerto Download at https://github.com/campsych/concerto-platform/wiki/Native-Windows-Installer
https://userguide.taotesting.com/3.1/introduction/what-is-tao.html
http://www.umass.edu/remp/software/simcata/simulcat/
Online articles http://echo.edres.org:8080/scripts/cat/catdemo.htm
https://www.uni-obuda.hu/journal/Cisar_Radosav_Markoski_Pinter_Cisar_25.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerized_adaptive_testing
https://marces.org/EDMS623/ASC%20CAT%20Webinar.pdf
10 Aug 17 : Cloud computing article ;http://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-cloud-computing-everything-you-need-to-know-from-public-and-private-cloud-to-software-as-a service
Artificial Intelligence video interview : http://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-artificial-intelligence/
2 Sep 17 : Evolution of Colour in Film
https://www.wired.com/story/distracted-boyfriend-meme-photographer-interview/ A photographer's work becoming viral. And it was his 2nd career which he totally had no experience in
3 Sep 17 : Distinguishing Real or Fake News : https://ww2.kqed.org/education/2017/03/14/real-news-fake-news-or-opinion-teaching-our-students-to-discern-the-difference/
http://www.easybib.com/guides/evaluating-fake-news-resources/
https://www.channelone.com/blog_post/lesson-plan-how-to-spot-fake-news/
http://www.thenewsliteracyproject.org/sites/default/files/GO-TenQuestionsForFakeNewsFINAL.pdf
http://www.easybib.com/guides/7-fake-websites-to-test-students/
http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm
6 Sep 17 : James Tanton's Logarithms' course : Excellent conceptual videos : See James Tanton's Thinking Mathematics
What is a logarithm? A no fuss start! (Assume students understand indices [powers] well)
Logarithms: What problem was Napier trying to solve?
Logarithms: The typical textbook definition and rules
7 Sep 17 Natural Language Processing : Google Scholar search Google Search
12 Sep http://yearofcode.org/
About Javascript : http://www.crockford.com/javascript/javascript.html https://www.quora.com/Why-is-JavaScript-so-popular
14, 15 Sep Learning analytics research my Google Doc links
https://statcounter.com/ (new acct using live.com
19 Sep Gif makers online https://www.lifewire.com/free-online-gif-tool-3485824
Animated gif using Google Photos : http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/57504/make-animations-google-photos/
Adding gif to Google Docs http://www.shakeuplearning.com/blog/insert-gifs-google-docs-slides/
Giphy : Gif making from videos https://giphy.com/create/gifmaker
Concept of Not Invented Here (NIH) http://wiki.c2.com/?NotInventedHere https://blog.hypeinnovation.com/the-not-invented-here-syndrome
28 Sep http://ixorastudios.com/games/ Developers for MOE's wRite formula game (chemistry bonds) - Possible collaboration on game making.
30 Sep http://www.smartlearnpharmacy.tk/ Finding learning about medicine
2 Oct : Milan Sherman and Charity Cayton : Using appropriate tools strategically for instruction (Mathematics Teacher ) Missing link (Access to JSTOR through read@academy@moe.edu.sg
Other sites : http://thinkmath.edc.org/resource/mp5
11 Oct : Use of UML for designing interactive activities : See Tutorial Point course at : https://www.tutorialspoint.com/uml/index.htm
https://www.elsevier.com/connect/want-to-create-an-educational-game-heres-what-you-need-to-know
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4319078/ -“Deliberate practice with multiple examples and feedback” has been highlighted as the best approach
to the acquisition of clinical competency" as written in ref 33 was cited.
http://web.arch.usyd.edu.au/~rob/teaching/2007/DECO1200/DECO1200-Slides-06.pdf
https://elearningindustry.com/6-tips-design-interactive-virtual-classroom-training
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3414906/
http://www.gamesforchange.org/
8 Nov : https://phaser.io/ A fast, fun and free open source HTML5 game framework
Quora, a great source of knowledge https://www.quora.com/
6 Dec The state of data science A https://www.kaggle.com survey
25 Jan 2018. https://vizia.co/ Videos can be turned into quizzes, polls and results captured on Google Sheets
Skitch (mobile app) Annotate on pictures and send.
Hardware for video tools - Impevo , HP Sprout
Math Editors Open source Math Cast http://mathcast.sourceforge.net/home.html , Not free MathType :http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathtype/
3 Feb 2019 - WD My Book Live is down. Retrieve HD inside using https://community.wd.com/t/guide-how-to-unbrick-a-totally-dead-mbl/56658
12 Feb 2019 Online Tools for T&L by UofMass,
13 Feb 2019 Wakelet (book creator) https://wakelet.com/home
16 Feb : Google Education (my subpage)
21 Mar 2019 : EJSS related page set up
6 May https://digitaldefynd.com/best-chatbot-course/ My DialogueFlow account (gmail)
11 May Interactive Fiction - Review 2018 : https://itsfoss.com/create-interactive-fiction
Ren'Py https://www.renpy.org/
Text Analysis : https://monkeylearn.com/text-analysis/ Very easy to read, comprehensive guide to text analysis
Reviews of software available :
Software : https://rapidminer.com/ + https://aylien.com/
Links to MIT Reviews on AI : https://www.technologyreview.com/artificial-intelligence/
5 June 19 : About colours : https://www.thefutur.com/resources/color-resource-guide/
6 June 19 : Boon Jin tips : Use https://interactjs.io/ and other libraries to create interactive programs in HTML & https://reactjs.org/
11 June 19 : https://schoolyourself.org/ Math site with very comprehensive interactive math videos
https://csunplugged.org/en/ Learning computers without a computer.
https://flutter.dev/ Flutter mobile app development and DART language https://dart.dev/
https://www.goodfirms.co/blog/top-7-free-and-open-source-animation-software-tools http://www.makehumancommunity.org/ https://www.synfig.org/
2D animation free https://opentoonz.github.io/e/ https://morevnaproject.org/opentoonz/ https://opensource.com/article/17/2/opentoonz-2d-animation-software
Commercial 15 day trial - https://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/
13 Jun https://investinestonia.com/ https://e-resident.gov.ee/ https://investinestonia.com/business-in-estonia/life-in-estonia/magazine-spring-2019/#archive https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/estonia/articles/amazing-facts-about-estonia/ e-residency article - Indonesian vertical farming story
Setting up business in Singapore https://www.paulhypepage.com/our-fees/#Annual-Recurring-Services-Fees-Package
15 Jun https://www.classcentral.com/tag/chatbot free lessons from google and ibm on chatbot dev https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-create-a-chatbot-teacher
https://elearningindustry.com/chatbots-in-education-applications-chatbot-technologies (Spaced interval learning)
Signed up https://snatchbot.me/ https://dialogflow.com/
Found my https://appear.in/user (my gmail login)
21 Jun Splash Math https://www.splashmath.com/features/teachers
https://sanalabs.com/ AI for Education
22 Jun Amazon Mechanical Turk https://worker.mturk.com/ & https://www.awseducate.com/ Article about Ghost Work (human sweatshop behind Cloud AI https://ghostwork.info/ghost-work/
23 Jun https://en.unesco.org/themes/ict-education/ict-education-prize/nomination
Joined Zoom video conferencing tool. https://us04web.zoom.us/ used FB acct
Added https://www.screencastify.com Chrome extension 10 minute video length limit ,50 videos / month, watermark
https://zapier.com/pricing screencapture integration with 2 apps
12 Jul English writing learniing tools : https://writeandimprove.com/ & http://writingexercises.co.uk/index.php both are just awesome!
13 Jul Best Websites for Teaching & Learning 2019 (American Association of School Librarians) & past list : http://www.ala.org/aasl/standards/best/websites/past
Best Apps for Teaching & Learning 2019 (American Association of School Librarians) & past list http://www.ala.org/aasl/standards/best/apps/past
14 Jul Learn Mandarin for free Yabla's partly free resources : https://chinese.yabla.com/ Duolingo : https://www.duolingo.com/ (joined using FB acct) http://www.chinese-skill.com/cs.html
https://ltl-taiwan.com/best-way-to-learn-mandarin-online/ Tips on resources and online tools
6 Sep Data Structures and Algorithm free resources : https://javarevisited.blogspot.com/2016/05/5-free-data-structure-and-algorithm-books-in-java.html
https://bestofjs.org/projects/data-structures-and-algorithms-in-js
O Reilly Data Structures And Algorithms With JavaScript.pdf
Learning Javascript at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Introduction
6 Sep https://icenamor.github.io/files/books/Hands-on-Machine-Learning-with-Scikit-2E.pdf
https://www.datacamp.com/groups/shared_links/ebcdb4b0c825a91e2397431ee44e722f2f2616be -Datacamp free courses (paid by AI SG) (DHS gmail acct)
26 Sep Apollo 11 trajectory : https://math.sun.ac.za/bbartlett/assets/moonshot.html#figure-eight-orbit
6 Oct Best academic search engines 2019 : https://paperpile.com/g/academic-search-engines/ Google Scholar Microsoft Academic, Core Semantic Scholar Science.gov
7 Nov https://www.gapminder.org/ Data Visualization by Hans Rosling team. Public Tableau : https://public.tableau.com/profile/lew.ws#!/vizhome/ (my acct)
9 Nov 19 VSDC video editor (able to edit 2 side by side video ) http://www.videosoftdev.com/
Openshot video https://www.openshot.org/features/
Blender 2.8 (3D anim & video edit)
18 Nov : Reviewed suitability of various online platforms for learning coding free for students : 1. Scratch (setup teacher acct 18 Nov ok) 2. Code.org. 3. Codecademy. 4. Free Code Camp 5. https://codecombat.com/
22 Nov : Revisited Algodoo. http://www.algodoo.com/ (intend to download and reskill myself) https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User-Generated_Content_in_Education/Algodoo
See interesting reddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/Simulated/comments/5rr9ia/can_we_have_a_new_algodoo/ the subsecton is r/simulated many interesting sims.
12 Mar 2020
https://haxtheweb.org/what-is-it Web Authoring tool
Fun: Coin problem (computational thinking) http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_139_g_3_t_2.html (open with internet explorer or firefox)
JS game engines
https://blog.bitsrc.io/9-top-js-gaming-engines-and-libraries-for-2020-81707d9f095
Closer to Truth : Discussion on Multiple Topics
https://www.closertotruth.com/
https://www.closertotruth.com/contributors/mathematics-information
Blog on Free resource for content illustratlion etc
Simulations (Recently found 2020 May)
http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page OpenSimulator -virtual worlds.
https://opensim.stanford.edu/ Biomechanical Simulator
https://www.sciencecircle.org/code-of-conduct/ (Science simulations in 2nd Life and OpenSim
https://b24-3o4wac.bitrix24.com/stream/
2020 Oct : Escape Room using Google : https://ditchthattextbook.com/30-digital-escape-rooms-plus-tips-and-tools-for-creating-your-own/
IDE Geeks for Geeks : https://ide.geeksforgeeks.org/ Very good platform to learn and test code at the same time
www3.schools : https://www.w3schools.com/
https://realpython.com/python-sort/ Python learning
Web based VR software https://aframe.io/
Signed up instructor acct using dhs.sg https://annotate.net/instructor allows annotation on web page (Chrome extension)
1 June : TinkerCad from Autocad, free design, and coding platform with lesson plans
July 2021
Jupyterbooks : Maths
https://jupyterbook.org/content/math.html Article in Medium https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/writing-math-equations-in-jupyter-notebook-a-naive-introduction-a5ce87b9a214
Aug 2021
Codepen.io : -https://codepen.io/ CodePen is a social development environment for front-end designers and developers. Build and deploy a website, show off your work, build test cases to learn and debug, and find inspiration.
jQuery - Searchable item in drop down list of items
https://www.jqueryscript.net/form/Searchable-Dropdown-Select-jQuery-Selectstyle.html
How to do : Google Forms - Drop Down List from Spreadsheet Using Apps Script
You tube video : https://youtu.be/o3AL7ASI_cA
How to make a multivideo collage : https://www.wired.com/story/zoom-music-video-coronavirus-tips/
2022 New Links
Solving the Rubik's Cube Beginners Method (revisited)
3 to 6 Dec
Revisited my github and replit for the C++ course Dec 2022 ( gmail accts)
https://replit.com For housing programming exercises, like an online compiler + repository vs https://github.com repository.
New learning platform (alternative to replit) https://exercism.org/dashboard (used github registered)
Sources for programming problems : 1. https://adventofcode.com/ A good source to search problems for programming practice. 2. Project Euler.
https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ ChatGPT is new chatbot with powerful AI system. https://chat.openai.com/chat (gmail registered) Discord server for openai ChatGPT
Ask Dr Math(deprecated) New : https://www.themathdoctors.org/
6 June 23 : Learning languages : Chinese at https://chinese.yabla.com/ Malay : L lingo , Learn101, pgoh_free64(good)
LangChain (python with LLMs) Sam Witteveen Youtube playlist
https://primo.ai/index.php?title=PRIMO.ai References to wide range of AI topics
What is Git Hub Git github for beginners (video)
Thunkable Drag and Drop Book by David Wolber
6 Aug 23 : Google Cloud Bucket (account set up with files) Created html page with JS file from bucket
22 Oct 23 : tactiq.io Tool for Youtube-transcription
20 Jan 24 : https://website.simpleshow.com/ AI based video maker
23 Jun 24 : https://docs.fileformat.com/web/js/#google_vignette FileFormat pages for history, syntax NLB Mr Goh SS Intro_To_Raspberry_Pi/Pico Zero Course
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