Open+Source+Applications

Students will examine and explore installed //Open Source// software applications available for students and teachers. Many of these free software tools are of high quality as they are made by the world… for the world. Participants will gain an understanding of the wide range of software applications available for engaging students in the educational process. Open source designers offer their source code for use and modification.

Open Educational Resources - OER content is made free to use or share: [] Open Office - Office suite: @http://www.openoffice.org/ GIMP - Image Manipulation Program: @http://www.gimp.org/ Firefox - Internet browser: @http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ie.html Audacity - sound recording tool: @http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Lame - mp3 encoder needed with Audacity: [] Celestia - 3D planetarium: @http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ Stellarium - Realistic planetarium: @http://www.stellarium.org/ GCompris - educational software suite for children aged 2 to 10: @http://gcompris.net/-en Storytelling Alice - 3D object behavior: @http://www.alice.org/ MuseScore - free music composition & notation software: [|http://musescore.org] TuxPaint - interactive paint program for kids: @http://www.tuxpaint.org/ TuxTyping - keyboarding program: [] Inkscape - vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator and CorelDraw: []