Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Sources of Inexpensive Software & Tech & Media”.
In this article, I want to share with you some of the best sources that I’m aware of for getting great deals on software on books, CDs and other media, and this is great for teachers for students. But it’s also good for just about anyone and the first source I would like to highlight and share with you is called Humble Bundle. The address is Humble Bundle, com, kind of a funny name, but the reason they call it. That is because they put together every month at least one, but often more than one bundle of content that you can get really inexpensively.
So these are the eight bundles that are currently going on, and you can see that some of these are software bundles. That’S what this one is: the Vegas Pro software bundle. Here’S one Sonic the Hedgehog games bundle. There are some book bundles. So, for example, here’s one product management and design book bundle and here’s another book, bundle, games and puzzles by wily and there’s much more than that. As well so people ask me all the time: how can you afford to get and use such good software, and this is one of my secrets – I have a free, Humble Bundle account, and I want you to see how inexpensive these are. I’M gon na click here on the sonic, the hedghog bundle and this humble sonic bundle consists of the following these six games and if that’s all, you want, it costs $ 1 to get these six games.
But if you want to pay seven dollars and 22 cents, you’ll get all of those six games, plus these four games – and this number here is the average of what people are paying now. If you want, even more than that, you can get all of this content plus these two games, if you pay 15 dollars or more, and so basically you get to name your price, I’m gon na click pay what you want here in the upper right, and I Can name the price for this bundle of games? What do I want to pay? And if I just want the $ 1.00 content here at the top, these six games that originally cost, probably around $ 100? I can just go down here. Click custom amount put in a dollar, and it warns me that I’m not gon na get. You know those four games that are for the people that pay seven dollars and it also warns me I’m not gon na get the two games that are for the 15 dollar payers, but that’s okay, and now I can just go down here and I can pay With my credit card, I can pay with paypal or Amazon and then humblebundle sends me codes now in this case. Most of these games are Steam games. If you’re not familiar with steam. Before you try Humble Bundle, you should set up a free Steam account, but steam is a great gaming and software system. Basically, that makes it so that once I buy these games, I would redeem the games in Steam and then I could download them on any computer that I would like to use them on, and so it kind of keeps them in my account, no more worries about Losing a CD or the disc, getting too scratched, or anything like that, it’s saved in my Steam account now also notice.
Some important information whenever you’re gon na buy from Humble Bundle notice that this software, this game is compatible only with Windows, and so that’s what this symbol is for here in the lower right, the Windows symbol. So none of these are Mac games every once in a while there’s android games that appear here so just watch out for the format of the games. Also, you can see the reviews for these games most of them in this one dollar category are very positive. Very positive reviews this one’s mostly positive and this one’s mixed, here’s one overwhelmingly positive. You also can click on a particular game to get some information about it here on the right, and you also get videos that kind of show you the content of the game. You get to hear a little bit about the game and see it in action.
Now, once you pay and you get your codes to use in Steam, there will be instructions for you on how to redeem those steam codes. But again you really should get a steam account if you don’t already have one now, the first time I saw this, I thought there’s no way. This is legal, a dollar for six games, but don’t worry, it is legal and one of the best things about it. I think is when you do decide to pay, you get to choose where your money goes, how much of your dollar in this case, do you want to go to sega the people that made the games and how much of the money do you want to go To charity, if you want, you can donate ninety two cents to your charity and you can see there’s different charities that you can choose from.
So you can adjust where that charity money goes and then do you want to give a tip to Humble Bundle. It might be a good idea if you want to keep getting these good deals, and so you get to decide where your money goes. I think that’s really cool that not all of the money goes to Humble Bundle or even to Sega. In this case, some of it goes to charity and you’re in control of that now, if you’re gon na use Humble Bundle, in addition to signing up for a free Steam account and here’s what the Steam homepage looks like it’s just stored steam powered comm, you can Install steam and get an account join Steam. In addition to that, you probably should also sign up for a Humble Bundle account that way all of your purchases will show up there.
Now I’ve focused a little bit too much, probably on the game aspect of this, but look. This is Vegas Pro software. This is high quality software. This particular fast cut is normally $ 69 and this code is normally $ 10, so you’re getting almost $ 80 worth of content for a dollar and then, if you pay the average, you get these other tools and if you pay $ 25, you get even more So you can get hundreds of dollars worth of software for $ 15 for $ 20 or you can go the cheaper route and just pay a dollar and get some really good content. So over the years I have purchased hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of professional-grade software and I’ve paid, maybe $ 50 for that now, if you really like Humble Bundle in addition to the bundles that they put out, they also have Humble monthly, which gives you all Sorts of content, it does cost a little bit more, but you get $ 100 plus of games for $ 12 a month. So, if you’re interested in Humble monthly, please look in the description below. I have a link to it.
That will give you access to Humble monthly and you’ll, be able to sign up for that. So this really is one of my favorite sources of inexpensive content for the classroom, but also for fun. Now, every once in a while Humble Bundle will provide a free game or free software. So this one Lego, Lord of the Rings, is free for a limited time. By the time you watch this video it’ll probably be too late, but anyone that has a Humble Bundle account can click to get this game for free. So I really do like Humble Bundle, and I use it quite a bit. Our second source of great deals is slick, deals, slick, deals, dotnet, and what this is is it’s a place where people can recommend great deals that they find on the internet or also in stores, and if they recommend those deals, they get some kudos for having recommended Them and the results are that you get a breakdown of some of the best deals on a variety of different things. The way I use this is, let’s say, I’m looking for a new computer.
I go here to the computer category and I look at the featured computer deals and some of these are better than others. If they have the fire symbol. That means they’re pretty hot right now you can get a great laptop for a good price, but you can also do a search.
So let’s say I’m looking to buy an iPhone. I do a search for iPhone and it brings up the current deals related to. I phones, ok, some of these are for cases, some are for accessories, and things like that, and you can see that there are lots of different categories that you can search in. Also, if you go to the slick deals homepage, this is something to check the popular deals. These are the ones that people are buying and clicking on the most. So here’s a DVD external drive I’ve been interested in one of those. I can click see deal it takes me to the website where it’s available, and then I can use the code. That’S here and get the deal slick deals has helped me to get lots of great deals. Next, we have paperback swap and you’ll find paperback swap at paperback swap comm, and this is just what it sounds like it’s a way for me to trade books that I have that.
I don’t want anymore for books that I do want. Let’S say I’m done. Reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the galaxy for the 25th time and I’m ready to move on to something else. I do a search for it here.
It is, it tells me it’s a paperback and it’s available right now now what? If I don’t want it to be a paperback, what if I want it to be a hardcover, I put a checkmark here for hardcover update the results and it looks like there are not any hard covers available, at least not for book one. But look this one. Does have a hardcover available now, as you can see in my account, I have earned 12 credits. What does that mean? It means I’ve sent away 12 books.
People have requested 12 of my books and I shipped them at my cost. So there is some cost associated here. You know I spent 3 dollars and 20 cents or whatever it was to send each of those books out to people that requested them, but because I did that now I am owed 12 books. In addition to needing credits, you also need to have some money: it does cost 50 cents for each book you receive, and so let’s say I want to get this particular book.
I just click order. This book looks like I, don’t have the 50 Cent’s, so I’d have to click this button to pay $ 0.50 into my account, and then I would be able to order this book and so for 50 Cent’s. This book is sent to me, but again remember that I spent 3 dollars and 30 cents. You know sending a book to somebody else as well, so here in my account, I’ve also created a wish list. I have a list of books here that I’ve requested and if anyone posts these books, I will get a notification and, depending on my wishlist position, I will be able to get these books for $ 0.50, each plus one trade credit. So you can see this one. I’M position one of four here one of two, but here I’m 5 of 15. So just be aware of that, if you’re on a wish list, it’s in order of first-come, first-served.
Now, if you like the idea of paperback, swap they also have a CD swap option and a DVD swap option. So this is a great way to get books for your classroom, DVDs and music for your classroom, but for music I use a similar resource called music boomerang and it’s the same idea. You create lists of CDs that you have that you want to get rid of, and you create lists of CDs that you want – and I should have mentioned that here in paperback swap let’s say I have this book and I want to provide it for others to Trade for it, I can click post. This book click, OK and then I can post the above book and anyone that wants this book would be notified that it’s available and they can trade for it.
So these are four of my favorite resources for teachers and anyone to be able to get excellent content either for free or really inexpensively. If any of you are familiar with other sources of really good, free or cheap resources for the classroom or the general public feel free to post those in the description below, I hope you found this video to be helpful. If you did, please click the like button below and consider connecting with me on my social media accounts like Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter, and definitely do subscribe to my youtube channel for more videos about technology for teachers and students and when you do subscribe. Please click the bell next to the subscribe button. If you do that, you’ll be notified whenever I post another video and watch for another video from me at least every Monday. Remember if you’re interested in using Humble Bundle, please look for the link in the description below and I’ll also provide links to these other services.
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