Alison Saylor – Never Buy Software Again June 25, 2008
Posted by Matthew Woolums in Conference Sessions, Tools.trackback
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Open source – started in 1994 with the GNU project. Free software foundation. Course management software like Moodle. Programming repositories include sourceforge, eduforge.
Schools have limited budgets and my have to choose between buying computers or software, so if the software is free, you have budget to purchase hardware.
Two choices, desktop applications, or web-based apps. Frequently these replace common apps like Word or Pages. NeoOffice includes a database. All resources listed are cross-platform, Mac, Windows, Linux.
Helping students become better producers of information. Present better.
World Grocery, what a family eats for a week.
ZOHO writer has mathematical characters.
Glide is a flash based web-OS or desktop.
Google has a pedometer that calculates steps and calories mashed up with maps.
MIT open courseware. Free secondary education.
Redzee visual search results http://www.redzee.com
Our network was down for this presentation, the backchannel for this session wasn’t available.
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I took an online class with Alison through our district. The things she shared were amazing and have turned me into a “tech-evangelist” of sorts.
but not every time you can find a free or open source software that fits your needs.