Talk:Transformative Applications in Education

This Wikibook is a project of TLT470, a graduate class in Educational Technology at Lehigh University's College of Education. Specific topics and contributors are listed below.

Adams, Cindy - Molecular Workbench

Glover, Kevin - Nerveblock Simulator

Klimash, Carly - Elluminate

Lugo, Dave - NetLogo for Social Sciences

Plews (Sullivan), Rachel - Cmap

Rammuni, Corinne - Phun

Seachrist, Lauren - Gapminder

Siegfried, Bobby - Celestia

Suranofsky, Michelle - GIMP

Vitalo, Dan - concept mapping tools (or WISE)

Yudt, Kristin - GeoGebra

Zambrano, Miguel - Phun: creativity, control, programming

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