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I learned of Twine from Richard Byrne's Free Technology 4 Teachers blog post. It is great to see an opensource option that one can download and run locally or remain on the web to write.

Interesting editable open source textbooks

Open Education Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student, ...

Issu du monde éducatif, Framasoft est un réseau de sites web collaboratifs à géométrie variable dont le dénominateur commun est le logiciel libre et son état d'esprit. Il vise à diffuser le logiciel libre et à le faire connaître auprès du plus large public.

A very good alternative to Flicker: use pictures without worrying about licenses and copyrights.

A Spanish initiative collecting sounds from all over the world, available under a CC license. Download as you can, use sound bytes to create with your students or simply to illustrate your videos.

An audio editor useful not only to music teachers but also to physics teachers: visualizing sound waves is a treat when explaining amplitude and frequency, among other topics...

LibreOffice is the power-packed free, libre and open source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and GNU/Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base.

An open source and free alternative to Photoshop ? No, much more than that.

A variety of tools and applications to manipulate audio files. 

Simply stated, open-source software is computer software whose source code is available under a copyright license that permits users to study, change, and improve the software, and to freely distribute it to potential users. If you've never heard of open source software, you're not alone. Commercial, or proprietary, software has dominated the computer industry for many years. Most school personnel have understandably assumed that commercial software was the only option available.

Simply stated, open-source software is computer software whose source code is available under a copyright license that permits users to study, change, and improve the software, and to freely distribute it to potential users. If you've never heard of open source software, you're not alone. Commercial, or proprietary, software has dominated the computer industry for many years. Most school personnel have understandably assumed that commercial software was the only option available.

Create your own eBooks via ePub and PDFs.

Take data from a spreadsheet and create a visual map.