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://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.
Marble is a geographical atlas and a virtual desktop globe which lets you quickly explore other places on our planet.
You can use Marble to look up places, to easily create maps, measure distances and to retrieve detail information about locations that you have just heard about in the news or on the Internet.
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.
Looking at the various Open Source 3D Modelling programs out there and their application in Open Source virtual worlds such as Open Sim, Wonderland, Second Life Viewer, EduSim/ Cobalt, Alice et al.
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.
Cloudmade will give a talk about the OpenStreetMap project, how open licensed geo-data is being created in an open community, and how it can be used, on 27th April 2009 from 1800 hours for the Open Source Specialist Group (OSSG) and the Geospatial Specialist Group at the BCS Central London Offices, First Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA.
For further information please visit: http://ossg.bcs.org/
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.
Jo Cook will give a presentation about the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) http://www.osgeo.org/ for the Open Source Specialist Group (OSSG) and the Geospatial Specialist Group on 22nd January 2009 from 1800 hours at the BCS Central London Offices, First Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA. Fuller details about this event are available on the Geospatial Specialist Group website at http://geospatial.bcs.org/web/?q=osgeo
