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"TuxTyping is an educational typing tutor for kids starring Tux, the Linux penguin. This educational game comes with two different games for practicing your typing, and having a great time doing it."
55 Open Source Apps Transforming Education — Datamation.com
"Today, instructors have dozens, if not hundreds, of options for free and open source applications that help them present lessons on everything from learning the ABCs to modeling the complex interactions of molecules during biochemical processes.
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The list below provides just a small sampling of the open source applications available to help educators teach and inspire their students. "
Stellarium
"Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go. "
My ePortfolios
"Educators: Build your ePortfolio Website and keep it for life. Have your students build their ePortfolios for a variety of purposes here. Engage them in reflective learning activities. And use our award winning iRubric to build a rich environment for communicating your expectations and assess student learning outcomes and artifacts with ease. "
Phorum | Open Source PHP Forum Software
Started in 1998, Phorum was the original PHP and MySQL based Open Source forum software. Phorum's developers pride themselves on creating message board software that is designed to meet different needs of different web sites while not sacrificing performance or features.
Monkeybread Software - Software - Combine PDFs 4.4
Drop some PDF or picture files on the application or the main window. Reorder or remove pages as you want. Enter some meta information like the Title and save the new PDF. Analysing and processing the PDFs may take a while...
SchoolTool: free gradebook, attendance, calendars and more. — The SchoolTool Project
SchoolTool is free administrative software for schools around the world. The goals of the project are to create a simple turnkey student information system, including demographics, gradebook, attendance, calendaring and reporting for primary and secondary schools, as well as a framework for building customized applications and configurations for individual schools or states.
Metakine - Fairmount
Fairmount is a free tool which allows on-the-fly decryption of DVD content for convenient access. Fairmount does not perform the actual decryption, it simply forwards the data to VLC Media Player, which is used for the decryption. Hence, VLC Media Player must be installed for Fairmount to work.
VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
24 Great Open Source Apps for Admins & Technicians
I'm always on the lookout for apps that can ease my workload or free up some room in my budget, and open source applications are an excellent way for me to accomplish both.
Sakai Project : Home : Home
The Sakai Community develops and distributes the open-source Sakai CLE, an enterprise-ready collaboration and courseware management platform that provides users with a suite of learning, portfolio, library and project tools.
Centre SIS - Home
Centre is a free student information system for public and non-public schools. Centre is a web-based, open source, student management product with features that include student demographic info, scheduling, grade book, attendance, report cards,eligibility, transcripts, and more.
Open Source Network Gateway | Untangle
The best open source projects, integrated and made easier\n for spam blocking, web filtering, remote access and more
ClamXav
ClamXav is a free virus checker for Mac OS X. It uses the tried, tested and very popular ClamAV open source antivirus engine as a back end.
Wimba Collaboration Suite Gets Hosted Moodle Integration : April 2009 : THE Journal
The combination of Moodlerooms and Wimba allows users to synchronously see, hear and work with each other within their Moodle courses, just as they would in a traditional classroom--with the added convenience of not actually having to be in the same location.
GIMP on OS X
GIMP on OS X is a project, which provides pre-build application bundles of GIMP for Mac OS X.
image editing and graphics
Dimdim: Web conferencing that just works. Dimdim provides easy, open, affordable collaboration. Use for online meetings, eLearning, desktop sharing, training, distance education, unified collaboration, webinar, free web meetings and more.
Dimdim is a free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required to host or attend meetings.
Open Source Mac - Free Mac software, all open-source, all OS X.
Free and open-source software is good for you and good for the world. This is the best free Mac software that we know of.
K Desktop Environment - Be free
KDE is an international technology team that creates Free Software for desktop and portable computing.
Songbird - Open Source Music Player
Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development.
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