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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Open Office For Kids
Do any of you remember the old Scholastic Keys? This software, by Tom Snyder and still around, sought out to make Microsoft Office easier for K-8 students. It featured add-on tool bars, additional clip art, and additional tools to help students with using word processing documents, spreadsheets, drawing, and PowerPoint. The trouble though, as always, [...]
Posted in open source, OSS Applications
Tagged education, Open Office, open source, schools, ubuntu
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Library of Congress
One of the challenges in providing project based activities is finding safe content to use with the project. For instance, if students study countries, they may want pictures of maps, cities, culture, and sports from that country. Yes, you can do searches, check Wikipedia, or find a huge variety of resources online. But that takes [...]
Posted in literature, open source, Professional Development
Tagged dell, education, internet, lessig, media, open source, schools
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FolioSpaces
With a focus on assessments, and especially those of the authentic variety, more and more we look at portfolios for student assessment. These truly can assess a student’s knowledge over time. The one shot test, no, not so much. So in the 21st Century, we need a portfolio system that a school/school system can implement [...]
Posted in open source, OSS Applications
Tagged CMS, content management systems, education, internet, mahara, media, moodle, open source, schools, word press
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The New Basics
I just finished reading David Thornburg’s The New Basics Education and the Future of Work in the Telematic Age for the second or third time. The first, as a grad student at NC State University, I really did not understand, nor care about what he talked about. I just focused on receiving my Masters’ in [...]
Posted in open source, OSS Applications
Tagged Creative Commons, education, internet, lessig, linux, media, schools
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Does Open Source Sometimes Give Us Too Many Options?
This topic lived in my ‘to do’ pile for quite awhile. I think the topic needs telling, but I could not put into words what I thought or felt. I love open source and the free as in freedom movement, but after being pretty close to it for five years now, I do feel overwhelmed [...]
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Tagged education, internet, linux, open source, schools
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