Open Source and Free Software in Education
Definition from Webopedia
Definition from Wikipedia
Definition of Free software from Wikipedia
Definition of Free software movement from Wikipedia
Resources
- Open Thinking Wiki - this wiki was created to help plan our booth at the SACE conference. It is a growing list of open source and free tools.
- Understanding Open Source
- [[TheOpenCD]] - A collection of Open Source Software to distribute to students on CD
- Nicholas Negroponte "Being Digital" http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bdcont.htm
- The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/worldisflat.htm
http://www.stevehargadon.com/
http://www.opensourceclassroom.com/
Sound Editor/Recorder: Audacity (cross-platform)
Image Editor: GIMP (cross-platform)
Web editor Nvu: http://nvu.com/index.php (Any comments on what this is like?)
Browsers: Camino Mac web browser, based on Gecko (the engine behind Firefox)
Firefox
Opera
Journler (Mac only - is it OS?)
CMS: Moodle
Spreadsheet, Word processor, Presentation s/w suite: Open Office
VOIP: Skype (Not OS)
Gizmo (allows recording of conversation)
eXe HTML content editor Home = http://www.exelearning.org/?q=node
Blogs: [[WordPress]] LifeType
Word processor/Notes organiser: [[WriteRoom]] (Mac based. Is it OS?)
Tools Beneficial to Students with Disabilities
Adaptech.org is seeking information about free software that would benefit students with disablities. We're helping them to build a library of software by adding them to this Wiki.