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Re: Digest for thi-@topica.com, issue 184
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Catherine DeSimone
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Jul 15, 2008 07:32 PDT
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Thanks Trevor! I knew about some of these but not all. My students
will like the OpenSource info for illustrator. I knew about Gimp
already!
Cathy
Fitness Tip of the day: Get moving and get happy. Just 20 minutes of
daily exercise can improve your mood.
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tech.htm
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High/AAST/
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I can help you get fit without joining a gym!
On Jul 15, 2008, at 6:41 AM, thi-@topica.com wrote:
-- Topica Digest --
Free Software Alternatives
By educa-@gontzfamily.org
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:25:07 +0000
From: Trevor Gontz <educa-@gontzfamily.org>
Subject: Free Software Alternatives
As I am new to this list an have not spent an extensive amount of time
reading through/searching it I hope that I am not making a duplicate
post!
I am posting to make other teachers aware that there are FREE
alternatives to many popular programs that are used in education!
I will start with basics. There is a free alternative to Microsoft
Office called OpenOffice and it can be downloaded at
http://www.openoffice.org/. Not only OpenOffice free, but it is open
source which means that you are also free to distribute it! This is
great because you can put it on a CD and give to students to install/use
at home!
Actually, from this point on ALL of the software I mention will be open
source.
If your school/district currently uses Blackboard but is considering
dropping it due to the cost, well there is actually a free alternative
to Blackboard that in most cases is actually K-12 schools! It is called
Moodle and it can be found at http://moodle.org/.
If you are a user of Inspiration there is a free alternative called
FreeMind. FreeMind can be found at
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page.
There is a free program similar to ImageBlender that is called TuxPaint.
You can find TuxPaint here http://www.tuxpaint.org/.
Elementary/middle level Math teachers may want to take a look at Tux, Of
Math Command (TuxMath) - http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/
An high school/college math teachers may want to look at GeoGebra
(http://www.geogebra.org/) as a free alternative to Geometer's Sketchpad
and/or Cabri.
You should be getting the idea by now so I'll abbreviate for you!
Adobe Photoshop - GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/)
Adobe Illustrator - Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/)
Others of interest:
Tux Typing - http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/
GCompris - http://gcompris.net/
Lastly, I am working on compiling a fairly comprehensive list at
http://www.helpfulstuff.org/content/view/14/169/.
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Thanks Trevor! I knew about some of these but not all. My students will like the OpenSource info for illustrator. I knew about Gimp already!<div><br></div><div>Cathy</div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>Fitness Tip of the day: Get moving and get happy. Just 20 minutes of daily exercise can improve your mood.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:cdesi-@sc.rr.com">cdesi-@sc.rr.com</a></div><div>Home Page: <a href="http://www.dancinfeet.org">http://www.dancinfeet.org</a></div><div>Digital Communications Major Home: <a href="http://www.dancinfeet.org/tech/tech.htm">http://www.dancinfeet.org/tech/tech.htm</a></div><div>Academy for the Arts, Science & Technology: <a href="http://www.hcs.k12.sc.us/High/AAST/">http://www.hcs.k12.sc.us/High/AAST/</a></div><div>Chicora Car Club: <a href="http://www.chicoracarclub.com">http://www.chicoracarclub.com</a></div><div>Team Beachbody Coach</div><div><a href="http://www.milliondollarbody.com/digimom">http://www.milliondollarbody.com/digimom</a></div><div>I can help you get fit without joining a gym!</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br><div><div>On Jul 15, 2008, at 6:41 AM, <a href="mailto:thi-@topica.com">thi-@topica.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-- Topica Digest --</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Free Software Alternatives</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>By <a href="mailto:educa-@gontzfamily.org">educa-@gontzfamily.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:25:07 +0000</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From: Trevor Gontz <<a href="mailto:educa-@gontzfamily.org">educa-@gontzfamily.org</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject: Free Software Alternatives</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">As I am new to this list an have not spent an extensive amount of time<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">reading through/searching it I hope that I am not making a duplicate<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">post!</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I am posting to make other teachers aware that there are FREE<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">alternatives to many popular programs that are used in education!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I will start with basics. There is a free alternative to Microsoft<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Office called OpenOffice and it can be downloaded at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.openoffice.org">http://www.openoffice.org</a>/. Not only OpenOffice free, but it is open<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">source which means that you are also free to distribute it! This is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">great because you can put it on a CD and give to students to install/use<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">at home!</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Actually, from this point on ALL of the software I mention will be open<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">source.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If your school/district currently uses Blackboard but is considering<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">dropping it due to the cost, well there is actually a free alternative<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to Blackboard that in most cases is actually K-12 schools! It is called<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Moodle and it can be found at <a href="http://moodle.org">http://moodle.org</a>/.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If you are a user of Inspiration there is a free alternative called<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">FreeMind. FreeMind can be found at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page">http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page</a>.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">There is a free program similar to ImageBlender that is called TuxPaint.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">You can find TuxPaint here <a href="http://www.tuxpaint.org">http://www.tuxpaint.org</a>/.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Elementary/middle level Math teachers may want to take a look at Tux, Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Math Command (TuxMath) - <a href="http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org">http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org</a>/</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">An high school/college math teachers may want to look at GeoGebra<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(<a href="http://www.geogebra.org">http://www.geogebra.org</a>/) as a free alternative to Geometer's Sketchpad<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">and/or Cabri.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">You should be getting the idea by now so I'll abbreviate for you!</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Adobe Photoshop - GIMP (<a href="http://www.gimp.org">http://www.gimp.org</a>/)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Adobe Illustrator - Inkscape (<a href="http://www.inkscape.org">http://www.inkscape.org</a>/)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Others of interest:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Tux Typing - <a href="http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org">http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org</a>/</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">GCompris - <a href="http://gcompris.net">http://gcompris.net</a>/</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Lastly, I am working on compiling a fairly comprehensive list at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.helpfulstuff.org/content/view/14/169/">http://www.helpfulstuff.org/content/view/14/169/</a>.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">End of <a href="mailto:thi-@topica.com">thi-@topica.com</a> digest, issue 184</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><br></div></div></body></html>
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