I always thought the Gimp a good photo editing software. Of course it gets even better if you can use your Android tablet as a sketch pad to your computer. Think how powerful this could be in an art class or even just in a regular classroom?
So Google Maps pretty much ended the need for paper maps. With the computer, laptops, tablets, phones, and then GPS devices, who carries a map book any longer? When I taught fourth grade social studies, though, I made it a point to order transportation maps. If students could not learn the basics of map reading,
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This week, in Denver, the main national technology in education conference occurs, ISTE. Renamed from NECC, this conference brings together about 20,000 educators and administrators for a few days worth of sessions on everything ed tech. I attended NECC a few years ago in San Antonio and was pleased to see an Open Source thread.
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Looking for an open source application to one of your proprietary ones? Not sure what’s out there in a particular category? Then you definitely need to visit the OSALT website. Osalt, or Open Source As Alternative, lists top open source applications and top proprietary applications. Right from the front page you can begin finding good
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Another NCTIES come and gone. NCTIES is North Carolina’s branch of ISTE, the international organization for school technology. When I went to NECC a few years ago, an entire strand was devoted to Open Source sessions. So what did I find at NCTIES that excited me? It was definitely less on the open source side
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