Today, I look forward to my presentation on open technologies at the CUE/FETC Innovative Learning Conference, entitled "The Value of Open Technologies." Rather than trying to fly up a pile of resources, I am posting the materials here for those in attendance (and even those who aren't but are interested.)
The first is a document I wrote about open technologies in general. This is a great resource to hand to administrators and other educational leaders to help them understand why these technologies are important.
Open Technologies In Education application/pdf
The second is what I call my "short list" of open source applications which I believe are worthy of your consideration.
Open Source Short List application/pdf
And finally, a listing of the great open source applications on the Open Disc, which is a fantastic resource for teachers and students.
OpenDisc Programs application/pdf
Keywords: ILC, Innovative Learning Conference, Open Source, Open Technologies
Posted by Jim Klein
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Thanks, Jim. Some of these weren't on my radar. I'm going to try out Inkscape. GIMP is a little difficult for me for some reason. My past experience has been with Photoshop 6. I can get by with GIMP but I definitely need a tutorial book if I'm going to get better with it. Is the drawing package for Open Office standalone or does it require Open Office?
I liked the influence of Australian programmers on the "maths" programs too btw ;)
In the games section, not that it matters much, but "The Battle for Wesnoth" is listed in the description as turn -based and on the left hand side as real-time. For gamers, those are antonyms.
Have a great time at the conference!
It is possible to install just the drawing program from OpenOffice, but I confess I've never done it myself on anything but a Linux box.
I think Wesnoth has both elements, but am not sure. Have you tried it? It's on the OpenDisc