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The table below summarizes some arguments about open source, with links to more detailed discussion. These arguments describe the best examples of current open source and proprietary software. Each argument has been rated as true, false, or maybe, based on its validity and relevance to schools. The most important arguments are marked

"Handset makers and wireless carriers love to load up Google's Android platform with custom overlays, user interface tweaks, and third-party programs that don't ship natively with the open source operating system. That's great for them, but most power users would prefer a clean version of Android to work with, which is why the third-party ROM community is popular. Well, following in the footsteps of Samsung and it's custom S4 that was announced at Google I/O, HTC is reportedly kicking around the idea of offering a Google Edition of its One smartphone. News of the custom HTC One comes from Russell Holly over at Geek.com. Citing un-named sources, Holly says the Google Edition device would be offered in the U.S. first, though it's unclear if it would be carried in the Play Store like the Galaxy S4 will be. Other details are equally light and vague, though Holly claims an official announcement could come within the next two weeks, with a release likely planned for sometime this summer." By-The Xpert Crew @ http://techvedic.com https://www.facebook.com/techvedicinc https://twitter.com/techvedicinc http://pinterest.com/techvedic1 http://techvedicinc.tumblr.com/ https://plus.google.com/u/0/110467075169904075419/

Openmoko's Neo FreeRunner may be the open-source world's answer to the iPhone

Recommended for Moodle developers

Xerte is an open source tool converting PPT to Flash (working on HTML5). Worth a look

Long Beach, CA (Vocus/PRWEB ) November 20, 2008 -- Moodlerooms, a full-service provider for Moodle, the popular open source online learning management system (LMS), announced today that it will be collaborating with the California State University to provide essential services such as hosting, training, and support for the CSU campuses that choose Moodle for their LMS needs. Moodlerooms will be one of two options, Angel Learning was also selected, to provide learning management services for the CSU.

Here is a example of a school using Drupal (an open source tool) to create their website and have their student creates their own pages.

The Social Media Classroom (we'll call it SMC) includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes-integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools.

Audacity ® is free, award-winning open source software for recording and editing sound. It runs on Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. This is the Audacity Wiki, a public resource containing tips, tricks and information about Audacity and digital audio. Anyone can edit pages to make them more useful or relevant. Click here for help with Wiki editing.

Open source photo editor; variation of Gimp made to look more like Photoshop.

SchoolTool is a project to develop a common global school administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source license We are currently developing a web based student information and calendaring system. SchoolTool 1.0 beta was released October 30, 2008 and SchoolTool 1.0 will be ready in April 2009 for deployments in fall 2009.

SNAPP is a software tool that allows users to visualize the network of interactions resulting from discussion forum posts and replies. The network visualisations of forum interactions provide an opportunity for teachers to rapidly identify patterns of user behaviour - at any stage of course progression. SNAPP has been developed to extract all user interactions from various commercial and open source learning management systems (LMS) such as BlackBoard (including the former WebCT), and Moodle. SNAPP is compatible for both Mac and PC users and operates in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.

"The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. "

This is a table looking at traditional classroom practice and potential digital alternatives. I have included software tools (proprietary, open source/free (FOSS) and Web 2.0)

Mozilla Firefox 42.0 Download - Mozilla Firefox 42.0 is usually a fast and tidy open source internet browser. At its public kick off in 2004 Mozilla Firefox was the first browser to challenge Ms Internet Explorer's dominance.

Mozilla Firefox 44.0 Beta 1 Browser Download - Mozilla Firefox 44.0 is a fast, light and neat open source browser. At its community launch in 2004 Mozilla Firefox was the very first browser to obstacle Microsof

SMPlayer 17.9.0 Free Download - SMPlayer 17.9.0 is a very free, open source media player for use and is available for Windows and Linux with built-in codecs available to play all audio and video

Ares Galaxy 2.4.6 Free Download - Ares Galaxy 2.4.6 is a free open source file sharing program that lets users share digital files including images with all the formats, audio, video, software, games, documents and

SMPlayer 17.10.0 Free Download - SMPlayer 17.10.0 is a very free, open source media player for use and is available for Windows and Linux with built-in codecs available to play all audio and video formats and does

Media player with built-in codecs to play almost any format. Versions for Mac, Windows, Linux.