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50 opensource software applications

50 opensource software applications

Edusim is a free opensource 3D multi-user virtual world specifically for your classroom interactive whiteboard (Smartboard, Activeboard, Interwriter, Mimio, eBeam, or WiiBoard). Edusim is extendable allowing multiple classrooms to connect their interactive whiteboards for collaborative learning session.

An online graphical dictionary - Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate. Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections. * It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus! * Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists. * The online dictionary is available wherever there's an internet connection. * No membership required. Visuwords™ uses Princeton University's WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers. Combined with a visualization tool and user interface built from a combination of modern web technologies, Visuwords™ is available as a free resource to all patrons of the web.

Find opensource alternatives to professional softwarez, organized by platform. Easy to use.

How do you find an alternative to a tool that you like/hate, is on a different platform, or is no longer available?

Find alternatives to common commercial software. When popular software or online resources are discontinued look here for options.  As more schools adopt tablets and Chromebooks this resource can help to identify applications to meet your tasks.

Augmented Reality generator FTW

[d0x3d!] is a board game designed to introduce a divserse body of students to network security terminology, attack & defend mechanics, and basic computer security constructs.  It is available totally open-source and made freely available for order, download, and remixing.

"The PosteRazor cuts a raster image into pieces which can later be printed out and assembled to a poster. "

BuddyPress is a suite of WordPress plugins and themes, each adding a distinct new feature. BuddyPress contains all the features you'd expect from WordPress but aims to let members socially interact. BuddyPress is built to bring people together. It works well to enable people with similar interests to connect and communicate. Some of the fantastic uses might be: * A campus wide social network for your university, school or college. * An internal communication tool for your company. * A niche social network for your interest topic. * A focused social network for your new product.

"Tge NROC is a growing library of high-quality course content for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement. NROC course content is an Open Educational Resource (OER) and is available at no cost for individual use here at our website. "

"Designed by educators for educators, Sakai is an enterprise teaching, learning and academic collaboration platform that best meets the needs of today's learners, instructors and researchers."

Designed by educators, for educators. The people building Sakai work at campuses just like yours. We believe they know best what features academic users value. Flexible, Free and Open. Sakai is a powerful yet flexible solution that supports not only teaching and learning but also research and administrative collaboration. The Sakai CLE is distributed free of charge and our license is designed to encourage innovation and customization in order to meet local campus needs. Our Community. Sakai is an active community of educational institutions working together to solve common problems and share best practices. The professional development and cross-institutional knowledge sharing are benefits hard to find elsewhere.

from the listserv

The official GeoGebra site. Download software and explore the program.

A simple list of free, open-source software for Mac OSX

Free and open-source software is good for you and good for the world. This is the best free Mac software that we know of.

Like sourceforge, except for edugeeks

Library of user-contributed clipart that can be freely used.

MathCast is an equation editor, an application that allows you to input mathematical equations. These equations can be used in written documents, webpages, and even databases. They could be rendered graphically to the screen or to picture files. MathCast can be used freely by anyone: students can create equation sheets to help them in their studies, educators can write handouts or study guides, webmasters can add mathematics to their website, and the list goes on and on.

If you use openoffice or thought about it but worried about how it would function, here are some extensions to make it work the way you want it to.

Miro is the only internet TV you'll need - it's an application that brings together thousands of shows from all over the web. There's TONS of great content, lots of it in HD, and fresh shows are added all the time. You can watch and organize video feeds when you're offline or traveling, find TV programs on sites like Hulu, and download from sites like YouTube. Miro downloads in HD, whenever it's available!