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OpenEducationDisc
By Admin - Posted on February 17th, 2010
http://www.theopendisc.com/education/
The OpenEducationDisc is a compendium of software produced with students from KS1-5 in mind. Now published on a DVD, there is something here for everyone. 600 were produced for the BETT show and went like hot-cakes.
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Networked Theatre - open source enabling creative learning
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Presentation C&T is an eclectic company of drama professionals, technologists, teachers, web designers, animators and writers working with partner schools all over England to bring new, creative learning practice to students and teachers through a blend of drama, applied learning and digital technology.
OpenEducationDisc
The OpenEducationDisc is currently undergoing development for its next version. We have a strong line up of software focused on the national curriculum and beyond. We are looking to add a few programs mentioned previously on opensourceschools such as Numpty Physics and Scratch. if you would like to suggest any other software that you think teachers and students in Key Stage 1-5 would find useful please drop a reply to this thread.
WordPress MU (Multi User)
Dale Jones, Twitter's @spookingdorf provides free, ad-free hosting for UK education blogs at ethink.org.uk using WPMU
Wordpress Multiuser (WPMU) is an open source blogging environment. It enables an admin to set up an initial blog and to then allow visitors to the site to create their own blog, using the parent architecture of the original. Alternatively, they can sign up to be a user of the system, without setting up a blog. Once a blog is created, the individual admins can add users to it.
Laconica
Given the increasing interest in Twitter amongst educators, and indeed the general population, it's hardly surprising that a number of teachers are starting to explore ways of using this in class, with ideas including collaborative storytelling, gathering feedback, home-school links, e-penpals and word games (see, eg Tom Barrett's colaborative presentation). The sort of personal learning network which we see people developing through Twitter in their professional lives is certainly something which many students would undoubtedbly benefit from, although, as with much social networking technology, there are challenges here for purposing micro-blogging towards educational rather than social ends, as well as the obvious e-safety issues associated with children's participation in the open web.
Celtx - a video production tool
Celtx is the world's first all-in-one media pre-production software. It has everything you need to take your story from concept to production. Celtx replaces 'paper, pen & binder' pre-production with a digital approach that's more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share.
The KDE Education Project
The KDE Education Project offer Free Educational Software based on the KDE technologies: students, parents, children, teachers, adults, can freely use the software, copy it, modify it to your needs and enjoy learning!
Please have a look at the Tour webpage to get a quick preview of the programs which are translated in more than 65 languages.
OpenOffice.org - a professional office suite
Open Office is a suite of office tools for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and maths formulas.
It is easy to learn and is very similar to other office software in look and feel and in features. The Open Office website contains tutorials and manuals.
The word processor, Writer, is suitable for making professional documents, reports, newsletters and brochures.
Audacity - an audio editing tool
Audacity is a sound editing software application that is very popular in schools. It can be used to record, edit, playback and podcast music, voices and other sound files. Use it to record interviews, music and to edit files together to create a podcast.
