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=media type="custom" key="5416923"= =Freeware and Open Source Software (OSS) for education.=

What do you use or could you use in the classroom?
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Reviewing quotes or listening to podcasts on iPods etc by students Use to make audio track when film making with movie maker. || Plugins: Gimp Painter David's Batch Processor || Probably the best free image editing program around. Has a lot of the same features as Photoshop. Gimp functionality is increased greatly by plug-ins. This has simalarities to Artrage (see below) Allows you to batch process photos. Makes uploading a lot easier. ||  || (Free copies available to all UK & ROI physics teachers via IOP, but requires attendance at a training event. Details on website under 'pricing') || Secondary Physics (& some Chemistry) || Easily create simple games. Publish and share student creations. [|Edu Forum]. ||
 * = **Name** ||= **Level** || **Possible use** ||
 * Audioboo || Upper primary and all secondary || Free upload and hosting of podcasts, max 5mins. Easily links to social networking sites. ||
 * < Sketchup ||< High School Mainly with S1/2 (11 - 13 years old) Though could be used in upper primary ||<  ||
 * X-Mind || Mind Mapping app. All levels || See page for xmind ||
 * Kinovea || Video Analysis app. High School ||  ||
 * Audacity || Audio software - used at Secondary (High) School but has applications across all levels. It can convert to mp3 (needs separate lame_enc.dll available here) || Creating podcasts.
 * [|Gimp]
 * Drop.io || Free Private Exchange. Non-indexed webpages for sharing almost any media. Safe, private, password protectable. || Subject/Topic resource repository, Home-school diaries, Homework distribution & collection,quick and easy window into classroom activities, live chat &&&&& ||
 * ArtRage Starter Edition || Drawing app works best with Tablet PC's or with a Graphics Tablet attached || All ||
 * Celtx || Pre-production and Scripting tool || High School ||
 * Hot Potatoes || Create quiz's || all ||
 * Stop Motion Animator || Record quick stop motion animations Requires a WebCam/Camera/Camcorder || All ||
 * Irfanview || Viewer & editor - pics, audio || All ||
 * Stellarium || Virtual Planetarium || Science, space, all levels ||
 * Virtual Physical Laboratory || Virtual Physics experiments
 * Paint.NET || Free image editing software. Not as feature rich as The Gimp but probably easier to learn || For when The Gimp is overkill ||
 * Aviary || Online creative suite. Myna section for PC users who want something akin to Garageband. || Cross curricular, upper primary & secondary. ||
 * [|Scratch] || Free application developed by MIT which brings programming within reach of 8 year olds and up. A "Lego brick" metaphor allows interchange of software components without worries over off-putting code syntax errors.//1 // || Download others' creations to see how they work.
 * [|MyStudiyo] || Quiz templates for websites, can embed various media in the quizzes || All ||
 * [|Google Earth] || Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, [|3D buildings], from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others. || All ||
 * [|Freemind] || Free mind mapping software, requires download || All ||
 * [|Pivot Stick Man] || **Pivot Stickfigure Animator** (usually shortened to **Pivot**) is a [|Windows] [|freeware] application that allows users to create [|stick-figure] [|animations], and save them in the animated [|GIF]. Search for additional addins. || All ages. ||
 * [|Photostory] || Win only. The swiss army knife of ICT tools ||  ||
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 * [|EasyCampus] || Powerful, hosted virtual school builder and learning management system comparable to Moodle. Free for 25 users and comes with unlimited online support. Convenient templates for facilitated, hybrid, and self-paced courses. || All ||
 * [|iTalc] || iTalc lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways. It supports Linux and Windows 2000/XP || Control computers in your classroom ||
 * Glogster (Edu) || Interactive, multimedia posters for creativity. Middle primary upwards. || Cross curricular. ||
 * [|Posterous] || Online space for all media - excellent. || cross curricular ||
 * PDF To Word Covertor || free for commercial use || All ||
 * Scribus || Desk Top Publishing package. Very comprehensive. || Upper Secondary ||
 * Blender || 3D surface modelling package. Absolutely amazing that this is open source though not the easiest to get the hang of. || Mid - Upper secondary ||
 * Inkscape || An excellent vector graphics package. No corner cutting when using this package in comparison to Serif, allows the user to get a thorough knowledge/experience of how vectors are created and manipulated. Excellent tutorials and on-line support community || Secondary ||
 * [|Network Notepad] || Network Notepad is a Freeware program for creating interactive network diagrams - good for use with A Level students || A Level ||
 * [|Camstudio] || Allows you to take videos of what's happening on screen - great for staff to create tutorial videos and there are also lots of ways for the kids to use this || Any but mainly secondary ||
 * [|Limesurvey] || Powerful open source web-based survey tool, [|used in East Lothian] for council-wide surveys of entire year cohorts to monitor and evaluate student experience of learning at P6 and S2. PHP/MySQL based. Can do automatic simple stats/charts reporting as pdf. || All ||