This is the first Adobe Air tool that has really caught my attention. It is graphic design motion based painting program. It allows you to select a wide range of brushes and the decorate your canvas. Livebrush
Available as a free download or as a low cost pro version this is a neat tool. As it [...]
What are the software tools that we need to teach our students? I believe we can not be limited to just a productivity suite, we need a range of tools that we can use to enhance our students learning and engage them in a variety of activities. Here is my list of tool categories and [...]
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 [...]
With the recent discussions about the Software for schools deal, its worth considering some of the other tools we could use in our teaching.
One of the best tools for the visual learner is a mind map. This learning tool is not covered by the software for schools package but fortunately for us there are some [...]
I know its been out for a while, but it never ceases to amaze me. This is a collaborative open source project. It produces a fully functional suite of productivity tools that are a match in many ways for professional suites, but best of all its free.
I have just started to update my copy from [...]
I have long been an advocate of Free and open source software (FOSS). There are an amazing array of tools and technologies available to use from a dedicated community of enthusiasts. I applaud these people as they have done much to enable my teaching.
But while I wholeheartedly applaud them, I must also lament the situation [...]
Here are two websites that I have come across that are really quite useful.
Freesoftwaregenius – http://www.freewaregenius.com/
This site does reviews of free and open source software (FOSS). The reviews are good and detailed and there is a rich variety of tools reviewed. A good software source.
Fontstruct – http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/
Their motto Build, Share, Download fonts. This is a [...]
Microsoft and FOSS (Free or Open Source Software) would often be regarded as mutually exclusive or perhaps a contradiction in terms, but occassionally you would be very wrong. Here are two examples that are interesting:
The first is MARVIN – http://www.marvin.com.au/
Marvin is a development from the agents (einstien and co) in MS apps. Developed by an [...]
This is a good review of some very powerful FOSS applications. (FOSS Free and/or Open Source Software).
the review appears in the Smashing applications Blog – http://www.smashingapps.com/2008/08/12/19-most-essential-open-source-applications-that-you-probably-want-to-know.html
Some of the applications we already know like:
Wordpress –
But there are some other that are very interseting including 2 project management tools.
dotproject – Open Source Project and Task Management [...]
