There is a new Free Software for Students disc available, featuring the latest versions of some old favourites and adding in some new ones. Teachers and students of Film or Media may find the newly Open-sourced "Lightworks" a great Pro-end tool. Please note it will need a fairly beefy machine to run.
Education-specific applications
Alsa Modular Synthesiser
By nerak99 - Posted on October 25th, 2011
I have been playing with a piece of software call Alsa Modular Synthesiser(AMS) for a long time. AMS is an emulation of an Analog Synthesiser and this piece of software would allow someone to cover the contents of the A-level music Technology section on Analog Synthesis. The Analog Synthesiser of choice would be a Moog (pronounced to rhyme with Vogue). Unfortunately they are rather large and expensive. This piece of software is one example of two Analog Synth programmes that I have come across. The other one runs on Macs and I saw it at the RNCM. I believe it is fairly expensive. I put this tutorial together for a colleague who9 teaches A-level Music Tech and it was getting this software installed in the Music suite that drove me to implement the Active Directory link that I added to another Blog a few Months back. The Tutorial is here http://sciencensums.co.uk/lifetype/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=2&...
Tuxedu
By Optymystic - Posted on August 25th, 2011
Presentation at BETT 2011
By dwillmot20 - Posted on January 13th, 2011
Thanks to everyone who was able to attend our presentation at the BETT show today. We were very encouraged to be booked up solid and to hear such positive comments as " An excellent presentation!", "definitely worth coming to hear!" and "Please can we have a copy of your slides?" on which point, we are more than happy to oblige.
Gravity Simulator
By dwillmot20 - Posted on December 6th, 2010
Simulate Gravity doesn't mean being able to walk to the shops like you're Neil Armstrong on the moon. Its a clever application to model the gravitational effects of sub-atomic particles, so useful for Physics students perhaps but another of its selling points is that it "looks pretty"
TCExam has a new website with new guides
By nicolaasuni - Posted on December 6th, 2010
The new TCExam website ( http://www.tcexam.org ) is now online and includes a new presentation and quick-start guide.
The K12 Open Source Classroom Website
An interesting new Open Source Education website in the US has emerged, the K12OpenSourceClassroom has an excellent news section and the beginnings of a Moodle, Forum and Gallery.
Matterhorn Lecture Capture
By tbateson - Posted on September 13th, 2010
Came accross a new tool in my RSS feed this morning that may be be of interest to people involved in delivery higher education.
http://www.opencastproject.org/matterhorn_capture
A full list of features are listed here
http://www.opencastproject.org/matterhorn_features
Matterhorn allows lecturers to capture, brand and release their lecturers into social networks for appraisal and feedback.
Have fun.
Tim
