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USEFUL TOOLS

• GAPMINDER is a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualize human development.
• Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop.
• Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy is a renewable energy resource web site sponsored by NASA's Earth Enterprise program.
• Ubuntu is a complete Linux based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support.
• Wikipedia: Free encyclopedia in many different languages.
• Appropedia is a living library of appropriate technology.
• Bartebly: Free reference including a dictionary, an encyclopedia, and books of quotation
• Wordweb: free dictionary and thesaurus
• OpenOffice.org: free full-fledged Microsoft Office compatible software
• FreeMind: How to construct "mind maps"
• Google Desktop: search engine on own PC.
• C.U.R.E Kits for International Trips
• Colorado Notebook Database
• United Nations Site Map
• World Fact Book
• World Statistics
   

COMMUNICATION

• Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development
• Review of Research on Rural PC Kiosks (read Word document)
• Using Stakeholder Theory to Analyze Telecenter Projects
• Farm Radio Network in developing countries
• On-Line Newspapers for Refugee Camps
• Skype VoIP phone and video service (free)
• Gizmo VoIP phone service
• FreeConference.com: Free hosting of conferences for up to 3 hours
• SightSpeed: for live video calls. Free version for one on one calling.
• What is Podcasting?
• Podcasting in Peru: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/technology/4688882.stm
• Podcasting pilot project
• InterNews: Information access for Everyone
• Communication for Development: www.comminit.com; www.afronets.org; www.itu.int/;  www.itu.int/ITU-D/index.asp
• World Bank Podcasting
• UNICEF Digital Diary

FOR FACULTY

• Campus Compact
• NADSA: Association of International Educators
• Forum on Education Abroad
• Safety Abroad First Educational Travel Information
• Standards for Good Practice in Education Abroad 
• Preparing Faculty for a Global Experience, by Natalie Mello (Oct 2005)
• Service Learning and Student Retention, by Campus Compact (2006)
• Devising a Curriculum for the Global Engineer, by Ali Ansari and Ishrat Mirzana (2006)

• Engineering Education through Service Learning: Two Case Studies, Thomas E., Azman A., Sandekian R., and Amadei B., Proc. ASEE Conference, Chicago, Paper 606, 2006.

• Engineering for Developing Communities: Integrating Education, Research and Development, and Service/Outreach in Engineering Education Amadei B., Sandekian R., Summers R. S., and  Bielefeldt A., Proc. ASEE Conference, Chicago, Paper 220, 2006.

• Building a Humanitarian Engineering Program, by david Munoz, 5th Annual ASEE Colloquium on Engineering Education, Rio de Janeiro, 2006

• The Globally Competent Engineer: Working Effectively with People Who Define Problems Differently, G. L. Downey et al., Journal of Engineering Education, April 2006.