A handful of the best

A handful of the best is one of the presentations I ran at uLearn09. The basis of this presentation is a collection of open source, free or great proprietory tools that I use in my classroom.

While the “software for schools” deal does provide a basic productivity suite for computers in schools and an OS it is a very limited selection of the tools that many learner need and use regularly. Here is my list of some of the tools that I use: (NB some require registration, and others like Comic life will require purchase but are well worth the investment)

Product

URL

Win

Mac

FOSS

Audacity (Audio recorder) http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ OSS
C-map tools (mind map) http://cmap.ihmc.us/conceptmap.html OSS
Comic Life (comic creation) http://plasq.com/comiclife-win Com.
Cartoonist (image manip) http://www.vicman.net/cartoonist/ Free
Freemind (Mind map) http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Download OSS
Gantt project (time & project management) http://ganttproject.biz/ OSS
Scribus (DTP) http://www.scribus.net/ OSS
Shape Collage (Image manip) http://www.shapecollage.com/ Free
Fotosketcher (image manip) Http://www.fotosketcher.com Free
Google Sketchup (3D modeling) http://sketchup.google.com/ Free*
Rasterbator (image manip) http://download.cnet.com/Rasterbator/3000-2192_4-10771005.html Free
SAM Animation (animation) http://www.samanimation.com/ Free*
Read Please (audio reader) Http://www.readplease.com Free*
Open office (productivity suite) http://openoffice.org OSS
Not covered in the presentation but worth considering
Google Earth (GIS) http://earth.google.com Free*
Scratch (Programming Multimedia) http://scratch.mit.edu/
Photostory (Multimedia) Http://www.microsoft.com Free*
Acrobat Reader (audio reader aspect) Http://www.adobe.com Free
The GIMP (Image editor) Http://www.gimp.org Free
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