As an educator and an advocate of technology, I believe one 0f the biggest stumbling blocks of the effective and appropriate integration of Information and Communication technologies into the classroom is access.
As teachers we must seize the moment as it arises. Computers in a lab are often unaccessible when the need arises, so computers in [...]
http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/
This is an excellent post and one well worth passing around. Here are the key matches for me. Adopting a suite of tools like this for education could have huge impacts and effects. New Zealand spends millions aech year on MS operating systems and the Microsoft deal which provides productivity tools and server software. Adoption [...]
I read an interesting article in computerworld about an open source, web based document conversion tools, that converts MS Word documents in to Open document or HTML formats.
The end result is a usable tool. Its will convert ODT to web formats as well as converting MS Word. The tool can be downloaded and installed for [...]
http://www.fsf.org/
The Free Software Foundation is group established in 1985 to distribute free software. The free Software Directory is part of this.
here is there blurb…
“The Free Software Directory is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). We catalog useful free software that runs under free operating [...]
