ICT

Tux Typing - a typing tutor

http://tuxtype.sourceforge.net/

Tux Typing 2 is a touch typing program to help you increase your skill and speed in using a computer keyboard. It has something for everyone no matter who or where you are. It is designed to be fun to play and also as a tool for those who have the more serious side of typing in mind.

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Scribus - a DTP tool

http://www.scribus.net/

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Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.

With Scribus you can:

Is SaaS a model that will work in the Schools sector?

 SaaS is a model that is receiving much hype at the moment. Behind the hype I believe their is some valuable benefits. As someone who is active in the schools sector and the development of applications for it I wanted to gauge peoples views on this area. 

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Social Constructivism and Open Source

Teachers TVLast November, I had the rather strage experience of having one of my lectures filmed, the resulting programme now having been broadcast on Teachers' TV. Whilst the BBC haven't yet been in touch about my taking over from Jonathan Ross, folks here might be interested in a 45' peek into the day job, especially as the subject matter for that Friday's lecture was 'Social constructivism and open source software'.

MGB lecture

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TuxGuitar - guitar tablature editor and player

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/

MuseScore - a music notation program

http://musescore.org/

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from the website. . .

"MuseScore is a free cross platform WYSIWYG music notation program, licenced under GNU GPL.
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OpenEducationDisc

 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 - a virtual globe

http://edu.kde.org/marble/

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.

Pencil - a 2D animation tool

http://www.pencil-animation.org/index.php?id=Home

Pencil is intended to be a simple programme enabling anyone to make 2D animation.

It is an animation/drawing software package for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.

It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. 

Scratch - a graphical programming tool

http://scratch.mit.edu/

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.

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