SOS Children UK, in coordination with the Wikimedia Foundation, has released a complete 2008/9 revision of the Wikipedia Selection for Schools, which is perhaps the most successful "checked content" project derived from the English Wikipedia. Previous revisions have been distributed off-line widely across the globe including by the Shuttleworth Foundation to South Africa Schools, by the Hole in the Wall project to rural Indian children and through SOS offices worldwide. (22 October 2008)
General
Open Source 3D Virtual Worlds for Primary Schools perhaps
Primary Schools who are brave enough to download and install Edusim can begin to play with the concept of Local Virtual Worlds – it’s OSS and is very compelling. Small loaclised Virtual Worlds like this are probably going to be very popular in the future.
Look at the YouTube video here:
Open Office 3.0
A new version of OpenOffice will be launched in Paris on October 13th which is also the 8th birthday of the OpenOffice Community. The new release of the free, open source office productivity suite introduces a broad range of new features aimed at enhancing compatability with commercial products. For example, Office 2007 import filters allow OpenOffice to open files created in Microsoft Office 2007. OpenOffice also supports documents in the ISO standard OpenDocument Format (ODF) and PDF/A. (8 September 2008)