This update of on the wire looks at a variety of websites that can be used across the currciulum. 1. The Story of Movies – http://www.storyofmovies.org/ this is a website sponsored by IBM and provides a broad prospective to the history of films. The site features a teachers lounge for professional development. A stunning resource [...]
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 [...]
In my last post about the Software for schools package I recieved a reply from Paul, who works at the Ministry. I have worked with Paul in the past and I believe the question he asked was worth more than just a threaded reply Here is Pauls original comment and below it my responce; “Good [...]
http://www.scribus.net/ Scribus is one of the best FOSS (Free and open source software) products I have found. This is a powerful and flexible desktop publishing tools for Windows, mac and Linux operating systems. There blurb sums it up: “Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and [...]
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 [...]
The Otago Daily Times reports on Saturday 21st June that “School opts for free Software” The school has decided to stop using the ministry’s SMS (School Management Software) and it hope to be the first school “to exclusively use free ‘GNU/Linux’ software on school managment and classroom computers” But the best thing about this statement [...]
Recently, a good friend of mine (thanks Mark) gave me a old desktop. Its a celeron 1700 with 256Mb of ram, so nothing spectacular, but a usable and useful machine never the less. I have wanted for a while to have a linux box to play on. So when opportunity presents one must take it. [...]
http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/index.php?id=Home This is a neat little free application that is available for windows, mac or Linux based systems. Derek found this tool and blogged & twittered it. Its a 5Mb Download and the program does not require installation just unzipping into a folder and running the executable (Win). Its got the beginnings of a good [...]
This is a very interesting article published in the New Zealand Computerworld. Essentially the article reads as follows The New South Wales Education departments has: downgraded allvista operating systems to Windows XP use open office instead of Microsoft Office The selection of Open Office instead of MS office is interesting as Sun, who make open [...]
http://theopendisc.com/programs/ Miguel blogged about his today, and its come at a perfect time. Next week myself, 2 other teachers and 28 students are heading to Nepal for a community service and adventure trip. We have been given several laptops to donate to the Umbrella Orphanage in Kathmandu (watch the video). The laptops only come with [...]
