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 [...]
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 thoughts Andrew. [...]
This is a free standalone executable file that allows you to create movie files (AVI format) from images (JPG format).
The program allows you to select the frame rate and quality of the output and produce a video clip from this.
Ideal for timelapse photography, claymation, stop motion animations etc.
The tool is free. I downloaded my copy [...]
This is a website that will generate TAGS for you from your text. Often you will writre a post or a wiki entry andnthen try an work out what are suitable tags for this page. This is a tool that will help you out.
This site is licience under creative commons for non commercial work. Nice!
“TagCrowd [...]
This is a free multi platfom tool that allows you to create mosaic images from your own pictures.
The product is called Andrea Mosaic – http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/
The Download is available from this page – http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/download/ as is the link to the instruction manual – http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/AndreaMosaicManual.pdf
Both the program and the manual are multilingual – the program is in [...]
Most schools require students to have a graphing calculator when they reach the dizzying heights of Senior mathematics. The students (or perhaps their parents) invest in these tools. The cheapest price I found was $116 for a Ti82. Which is alot of money for a tool with limited application beyond the mathematics and perhaps science [...]
About a year or two ago I created a page on the edorigami wiki that compared digital and traditional approaches to teaching and learning. Well a lot can happen in a year or two so the time has come to update the tools and add in some interesting web 2.0 applications and remove the odd [...]
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 [...]
