Software, Tools, Guides, Programming

Free Office and Productivity Tools

Bookmarks, Web Clipping

Chat, Conferencing
see: Computers: Audio-Video: Video Conferencing

Converters

  • CloudConvert (freemium); docs, graphics, video, audio, ebook, archives
  • FreeFileConvert docs, graphics, video, audio, ebook, fonts, archives
  • Online ConVert (freemium); audio, videos, graphics, docs, ebooks, archives
  • Zamzar (freemium); docs, graphics, video, audio, ebook, archives

Documents and Office Apps

File Sharing

  • Box freemium, Win, Mac, Linux, mobile
  • DropBox freemium, Win, Mac, Linux, mobile
  • Google Drive freemium, Win, Mac, Linux, mobile
  • iDrive freemium, Win, Mac, Linux, mobile
  • Microsoft 365 freemium, Win, Mac, Linux, mobile

Note Taking

OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

Password Managers

PDF Tool Suites
Multiple tools for converting, editing, merging and otherwise manipulating PDF files

PDF Creators
note: Google Docs, MS Office, & Libre Office can all export to .pdf

PDF Readers, Form Fillers

Polls, Forms, Surveys

Screenshots

Whiteboards
all allow collaboration

Google & Chromebooks

Chrome App and Extension Datanase
Kasey Ball of ‘Shake Up Learning’ writes, In this post, you will find 160+ Chrome Apps and Extensions for Teachers and Students! This database is searchable and filterable by category, subject area, and grade level!
Chrome Story
Chrome Story is a … blog dedicated to everything Chrome, Chrome OS and Chromecast. We cover news, tips, apps, extensions and themes for Chrome, Chrome OS and Chromecast. Includes sections such as Chromebook Tutorial for Beginners and 50 Chromebook Tips and Tricks.
Chromebook cheat sheet: How to get started
Got a new Chromebook? This guide will help you navigate the ever-expanding world of Chromebook apps and figure out how to make the most of Chrome OS.
Control Alt Achieve
An edtech blog with a strong focus on Google apps. While aimed at teachers, there is plenty here of general interest for everyone.
Extensions vs Web Apps vs Add-ons
An explanation and a chart showing the similarities and differences between these different Chrome tools.
GCFGlobal: Chrome Tutorials
Learn all about browsing, customizing, and bookmarking in Chrome, as well as personalizing your privacy and security settings.
GCFGlobal: Google
You can do a lot with a Google account these days, from using Google Drive to create and share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations to using Google Maps to learn your way around.
Google: Chromebook Help
Google’s own support page for using and customizing your Chromebook.
Google: Google Help
Google’s own support page for using Google tools and apps. Includes topics such as Gmail, Google Chrome, Google Drive, and much more.
Google YouTube Channel
Google has a large store of videos for those who are looking for help with their various tools.
How to Make Gmail Your Default Email Program
Describes how to set Gmail as your email default with the Chrome, Firefox, and Edge browsers. To set it as your default on Windows, Mac, or Linux, check How To Make Gmail Your Default Email Client.
Richard Byrne: Google Tutorials (videos)
While many of the tutorials here are aimed at teachers, quite a few of them would be useful for anyone using Google apps and tools.

Guides, Tutorials, Tech Support

Are You Nearsighted or Farsighted? Here’s How to Make Windows More Accessible
If you often have to squint your eyes to read what’s on your screen or take breaks to rest your eyes constantly, you should adjust your computer accessibility settings.
Blockchain Explained by Common Craft video
Understand why blockchain matters in 3.5 minutes. This video is not technical and designed to make understanding easy for anyone.
CNet How-To
Smart tips on how to make the most of all the tech in your life, from phones and smart home gadgets to internet safety.
edX
edX is an online learning destination and MOOC provider, offering high-quality courses from the world’s best universities and institutions to learners everywhere.
GCF Global
Provides quality, innovative online learning opportunities to anyone who wants to improve the technology, literacy and math skills needed to be successful in both work and life.
Google for Education: Applied Digital Skills
From creating documents through research and project management, these free video lessons use Google tools to teach vital online skills.
Home and Learn
Home and Learn is a … free computer courses and tutorials site. All the courses are aimed at complete beginners, so you don’t need experience to get started.
Khan Academy: Computing
Introductory and advanced classes in computer topics, each class consisting of a series of short video lessons.
MakeUseOf
Our aim is to equip readers like you with the know-how to make the most of today’s tech, explained in simple terms that anyone can understand. We also encourage readers to use tech in productive and meaningful ways.
Microsoft: Digital Literacy
Learn how to gain digital literacy to use devices, software, and the Internet to collaborate with others and discover, use, and create information.
PC World: How-To
Articles and information from PC World magazine.
Tech-Talk
Tech-Talk offers weekly articles and videos about Google and Microsoft products and other technology topics. (SCC students: check with a teacher for our seton username and password.)
Technology for Teachers and Students (videos)
The videos on this channel will help you learn how to use a wide range of computer software applications, educational websites, and other technology tools.
The Webby Awards
Sites chosen by web experts as some of the best online sites. Arranged by category.
Wired How-To
A collaborative site filled with all kinds of projects, hacks, tricks and tips you can edit. Mostly but not entireley tech-related.

Programming

Academic Tutorials.com
You will find over 100 programming language tutorials, lessons, and how-to’s.
Alice
Alice is a teaching tool designed as a revolutionary approach to teaching and learning introductory programming concepts…. an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web.
Code.org
Free courses and learning activities. Build real working apps, games and websites using blocks, JavaScript, CSS, HTML and more.
Code for Life
Anyone can learn how to code. We will help you learn how. It’s fun, free and easy. Whether you’re a teacher or a student, our games support and guide you, making learning to code great fun.
Code Monster
Code Monster from Crunchzilla is an interactive tutorial for kids that focuses on action. Code changes immediately yield visible results. Projects start with simple boxes and colors, rapidly progressing into exciting experiments with simple animation and fractals. Important programming concepts like variables, loops, conditionals, expressions, and functions are introduced by example.
CS Unplugged
CS Unplugged is a collection of free teaching material that teaches Computer Science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around. They also have their own YouTube Channel.
Cyber Challenge
This is more than just a game, it’s a test of your cyber skills. Defeat every stage and you’ll be worthy of the Ultimate Challenge. Hungry for more? Discover the roles that make up the nation’s elite military cyber warfare teams. From the Department of Defense.
Grasshopper
Learn to code with bite-size visual puzzles. … Grasshopper covers the foundations of JavaScript, how to create animations with code, teaches solving problem techniques needed for technical interviews and introduces how to build a website with HTML and CSS. Free for online or mobile.
Khan Academy – Computer Programming
Learn the fundamentals of programming on the Khan Academy Computer Science platform. Explore programs made by others. Write your own programs and share them!
Kodu Game lab
Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and Xbox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills.
MIT OpenCourseWare: Introductory Programming Courses
Excellent introductory courses for beginners. Classes includes video lectures, handouts, homework problems, and self-assessment quizzes.
Programming Basics
Programming tutorial starting from the most basic concepts.
Regular Expressions
A regular expression (regex or regexp for short) is a special text string for describing a search pattern. You can think of regular expressions as wildcards on steroids. Describes how regular expressions work and offers a tutorial for learning the basics of how to use them.
Scratch
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.
Small Basic
Small Basic is the only programming language created specially to help students transition from block-based coding to text-based coding. By teaching the fundamental elements of syntax-based languages in an approachable manner, Small Basic gives students the skills and confidence to tackle more complex programming languages…
Think Like a Coder (videos)
A 10 episode animated series follows a pair of characters who …embark on a quest to collect three artifacts and must solve their way through a series of programming puzzles…. challenges the viewer to solve the puzzle along with the characters.
Tutorialspoint: Computer Programming Tutorial
This tutorial has been prepared for the beginners who are willing to learn computer programming but they are unable to learn it due to lack of proper guidance. We are confident that after completing this tutorial, you will be at a level where you can code in C Programming language and will have a basic understanding of Java and Python programming languages as well…
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