Open source for schools
*Update* The previous link to the pdf download of the folder “vrije software in het onderwijs – free software in education” had become obsolete**
On this website you can download a booklet on the use of open source in education. It is in Dutch. It explains really well the beginnings of open source and it shows quite a few example programmes and how they can be used in an educational context. They also pay attention to the multiplatform aspects of a programme. They explain stuff such as GPL, Creative Commons etc.
The booklet is released under a creative commons licence.
The examples shown are:
– Open Office
– Abiword
– Gnumeric
– Gimp (image treatment, getting better all the time), Inkscape (vectorial drawing), Scribus (Desktop Publishing)
—————->these three and more, you can find on the Rollmops live cd created by Constant!
– DIA (vectorial drawing programme, good for schematics)
– PDF creator
– NVU (a very good and complete multiplatform web authoring system)
– Mozilla Firefox (what are you browsing with??? How do you read this site?)
– Clamwin (open source and free antivirus)
– and some more educational programmes such as Moodle, Dokeos…
Nice!
August 30th, 2005 at 12:47 pm
dear wendy,
i´ve arrived here through a friend from radiopaca.org, eva, wich is in a project of centre de cultura santa monica in barcelona in wich i think you are involved too. as i did not found your e-mail, i leave this comment about the blogday wich will be celebrated tomorrow. the idea is detailed at http://blogday.wikispaces.org/about and basically i´m here to ask your permision to include your weblog in a list of 5 recommended weblogs wich i will publish tomorrow (if you agree, of course!). thanks! fernanda