The online-savvy administration on Saturday switched to open-source code for http://www.whitehouse.gov - meaning the programming language is written in public view, available for public use and able for people to edit.
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50 Open Source Tools That Replace Popular Education Apps - Datamation.com - 19 views
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For this list, we've collected educational apps from a variety of categories that can replace popular commercial software. In many cases, the open source options listed here offer features that aren't matched by their closed source counterparts. And while we limited our list to 50 apps, you can find many more on the Web.
Free and Open Source Educational Software - 0 views
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Free and Open Source Educational Software
FreeReading - 1 views
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Excellent free reading program for K-3
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Free-Reading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. Free-Reading contains a 40-week scope and sequence of primarily phonological awareness and phonics activities that can support and supplement a typical kindergarten or first grade "core" or "basal" program.
Education Software for Schools: Free Software, Open Source | School Forge - 18 views
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Open source educational tools development site for school. Large projects including student information systems, utilities, anti-virus and more. Fun take on the Sourceforge concept of open-source commercial developers.
OpenDisc | Education - 0 views
[Free Education Software GCompris] - 0 views
DiscoverEd from ccLearn - 0 views
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A new education search engine from creative commons.
50 Open Source Apps Transforming Education - Datamation.com - 0 views
White House opens website programming to public - 5 views
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The whitehouse.gov will look the same to most people except that what is behind it is part of the open source movement with the whitehouse code - now powered by Drupal -- is open source. For educators, if you've found administrators objecting to the open source movement, maybe you should consider using the white house as an example.
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Our district switched to using Drupal for our site last spring. So glad 'others' are following our lead! :-)
Free and Open Source Educational Software: THE MOTHER LODE! | Welcome to NCS-Tech! - 0 views
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Disk image download of thousands of open source SW titles
The Cape Town Open Education Declaration - 0 views
The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education - Curtis J. Bonk - 15 views
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All of the incredible links from Curt Bonk's excellent book: The World is Open.
Rainmeter, desktop customization tool - 3 views
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One of my students, Z, brought this application desktop customizer to me for his geniushour project. A very cool way to customize a Windows Computer XP-8. Interesting.
Flat World Knowledge LLC - 0 views
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Free textbooks will be available beginning Jan '09. Not sure what grade levels this will be available to (just college?). -
Open source textbooks - this is a movement in that direction.
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Interesting tidbit in their press release this week: "Flat World has announced 17 new author titles under contract. Flat World's in-classroom beta test gets underway this week, with 20 participating colleges and universities nationwide." Open Textbooks may be closer -- this model is a more hybridized version. If we had a "wiki to print" tool or technology, then we could literally have grassroots teachers writing and creating textbooks together. This is interesting to follow
OnlineKnowHow.com - Open Source Finder Google Gadget - 0 views
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igoogle gadget to help you find open source software
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Those people who are open source junkies -- this is a great google gadget custom search engine to add to your igoogle or gadget. It will help you easily find open source software.
OER Commons - 1 views
Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare - 0 views
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Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare
GIMP - Windows installers - 0 views
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If you want gimp for windows, this is the page to get it from. Gimp is a powerful open source alternative to PhotoShop.
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Powerful open source alternative to photoshop.