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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
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.
15:10-15:40, Four years of Moodle in Buckinghamshire, Ian Usher, Buckinghamshire County Council
This session will give both an overview of some technical details of Buckinghamshire's implementation of Moodle and examples of how the open nature of the software has fostered collaboration between individuals, schools & local authorities.
Networked Theatre - open source enabling creative learning
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.
Modern Foreign Languages Half Term Review
Do have a look at Jose's half term review at http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=916. Lots of cool ideas for language teaching, many using, and teaching the pupils to use, open source applications.
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.
Framasoft
From http://opensourceschools.org.uk/french-example.html#comment-110
"Free softwares users community, Framasoft is at the inception of a number of projects, including :
BETT Presentation
The Open Source Schools presentation at BETT on Saturday 17th January was very well received, with good numbers joining the team in the Olympia's Club Room, despite the early start. Miles Berry introduced the presentation, outlining what open source means as well as exploring some of the advantages which it offers to schools; he also spoke about Moodle and the Open Source Schools community. Michelle Walters talked about Open Office and some of the ways which teachers could get started with open source. José Picardo talked about the Audacity audio editor and Doug Belshaw discussed some of the many ways in which he's using Linux powered netbooks in his school. Audience members took Ubuntu and OpenEducationDisc CDs away with them so they could try open source software out for themselves.
The presentation was filmed in association with BBC Backstage and Learn4Life, with Leon Cych of Learn4Life doing some impressive work editing the video for the web. Leon's also written about the presentation on his own site.
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