http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
Celestia is "free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions."
Celestia lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.
It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
http://tuxguitar.herac.com.ar/
TuxGuitar is multitrack guitar tablature editor and player. You can use Tux Guitar to practice your compositions and record your own music. It allows you print off your compositions for others to play.
If you have never played the guitar before, you can use the fretboard to work out chords and notes.
For more details, visit http://tuxguitar.herac.com.ar/
Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.
As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.
Community members and visitors who are using TCExam in their schools or authorities might be interested in meeting the TCExam author at CeBIT 2010 from March 2nd-6th in Hannover, Germany.
Good afternoon forum users,
We are last year Business Administration students from a Dutch University and are doing an interesting research about open source systems. We found out some things about the use of OSS in the Netherlands, but still have some questions about the OSS in the United Kingdom.
Do you mind if we ask you some questions the following months concerning OSS on secondary schools in the UK?
Thanks in advance,
Jochem Durenkamp
Hi. I'm in a secondary school and as part of our primary liaison/community element I've been asked to do an hour with some Year 5s from our Feeder primaries -basically giving them a fun session playing games on the IWB or the computer (prob with ContentGenerator/Class Tools or HotPotatoes) But obviously there needs to be an educational focus and I thought it might be good to introduce them to the concept of OSS.
I know my kids have tons of interactive whiteboards at school. I know they cost a significant amount and there is special software and content for them I have seen demoed at BETT. I have no idea whether good interactive whiteboard support is important or not, but I would like to display my ignorance by throwing out a few questions that a passing teacher with IWB experience may care to answer:
Hi, I've updated www.freesoftwareforstudents.org.uk to add a link to the CD that has given our students FOSS applications.
Why so late 20th Century? you may well ask, but we found that giving pupils links to apps like openoffice.org, etc seemed to frighten some parents, "Download! that's illegal isn't it?" was a typical response. We found that by putting it onto a CD and putting a pretty lable on it gave it credibility. We now give it to all parents of yr7 before they arrive so they don't feel they have to buy expensive software for their kids.
I'm working with quite a number of schools on http://myschoolclosures.com
The idea behind the project is that parents and teachers can be notified in the case of a closure, registration can be done from inside of a school learning platform/website and all school info is available using the api.
