Group items matching

in title, tags, annotations or url

Free and Open Source Educational Software

WPClipart is a collection of high-quality public domain images specifically tailored for use in word processors and optimized for printing on home/small office inkjet printers. There are thousands of color graphic clips as well as illustrations, photographs and black and white line art. Nearly all are in lossless, PNG format. As of Friday, 12/12/2008 there are 23,907 images.

Install Ubuntu linux within your Windows install. Great for folks not ready to give up on Windows or that don't want to deal with dual boot.

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.

Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare

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.

Celestia is a free and open source space simulator that allows you to explore space right from your computer. Celestia is available for download on Windows, Mac OS X, and even Linux. Celestia has many very cool features, including an eclipse finder. Not only does the eclipse finder allow you to find solar and lunar eclipses on Earth, but you can seek eclipses on other planets as well. I found out something really cool when checking out eclipses on Jupiter - because Jupiter is very large and has many moons, solar eclipses are very common.

This sounds like I can sit at one computer in a room and control each of the others -- just by moving the mouse of the side of the screen in the direction of the next computer -- keyboard input to the computer with screen display

Possibilites for students to use with digital stories

This amazing website helps you find open source alternatives to just about any type of software.

Great place to go find free open source alternatives to software. As you cut your budget for next year look here to see what you should use instead!

Open source software with much of functionality of the paid versions

If you want gimp for windows, this is the page to get it from. Gimp is a powerful open source alternative to PhotoShop.

Powerful open source alternative to photoshop.

Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.

Compare/contrast a variety of different Wikis using this site.

"Flowplayer is an Open Source (GPL 3) video player for the Web. Use it to embed video streams into your web pages. "

All of the incredible links from Curt Bonk's excellent book: The World is Open.

convert your old cds to mp3 with one click. dead easy, open-source software.