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Free and Open Source Educational Software

Open source software conference for educators.

K12 open minds conference about open source software and its use in education to be held in Indianapolis in late September. Great opportunity.

Here is an open source education software package from Greenbush. It is a virtual world environment that is to be used on interactive boards. A major advantage is the application permits collaboration among those using the software regardless of location.

Cool software that can enhance your searchs

Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.

online auto cad software. Good for geometry and other projects

The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence. Check out the Hot Potatoes licensing terms and pricing on the Half-Baked Software Website.

Photosynth software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how each one relates to the next.

Create your own blog internally using this OpenSource software

Through July 6th you can get free Artsonia software. Good luck art teachers.

Free arts software and let kids share the artwork

WestPoint bridge design software  

Still demo, opensource software for web conferencing. BigBlueButton version 0.63 shipped with support for conversion of Microsoft Office documents, localization, API examples and more.

I REALLY like Foxit Reader.

web-based timeline software for creating and sharing history and project planning

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction. Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.

Here are some great resources for EarthDay. These were made in one of my favorite software programs called Timeliner. Timeliner is GREAT for the research because it completely cites all sources and aids in clipping from the internet. From planning and prewriting to creating graphic organizers - it is a great tool you should look at for next year!

There is no reason to deny that WordPress is world's favourite blogging software and there are many sites out there who publish great wordpress tutorials, following these tutorials one can easily learn wordpress in no time. Here is my list which is divided into different categories, each list is arranged in way that it goes from basics to advanced level. Hope you have a great time learning them.

online meeting software, screen sharing