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Free/Libre and Open Source Educational Software
Here we will put list of good and useful software
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Adult education
* AKFQuiz quiz generator - lets one make own quiz-games or questionnaires; * bingo-cards - lets one create number, word/letter, and picture bingo cards; * Claroline - lets users/institutions host courses administered by professors/teachers through web; * Diogenes - Scripts for searching classics texts; * DrPython - highly customisable, simple, clean editing environment for developing Python programmes; * FET - evolutionary programme for automatically generating time-table of a faculty or high-school; * Gretools - a vocabulary building tool for GNOME, a fun and efficient way to learn words; * Hanzim (“Hanzi Master”) - an interactive visual dictionary for learning and seeing relationships between Chinese radicals, characters, and compounds; * kdrill - helps people learn Japanese ‘Kanji’ characters; * linSmith - a Smith charting programme mainly designed for educational use; * The Manhattan Virtual Classroom – delivers courses via the web; * Moodle - a learning management system for Internet-based course websites; * Reciteword - helps Chinese-speaking people study and learn English; * Spotter - lets students check their answers to maths and science questions; * Tux Math Scrabble - a math version of the popular board game; * Whiteboard-fully-featured integrated courseware system for colleges and universities.
Elementary education
* Bingo-cards * TuxMathScrabble * Gcompris - Educational suite for children from 2 to 10; JILetters - assists children with learning the Western alphabet by visual and auditory means; * KLogo-Turtle - an interpreter of the LOGO language; * Kronophobia - a complete event-based school calendaring system; * ksociograma - sociologic analysis for a group of students; * Tux Typing - helps students learn to type or spell; * TuxPaint - drawing programme for young children; * Vocabumonkey - focused on language and math skills.
Secondary education
* DrPython, * Gretools, * linSmith, * Reciteword, * Spotter * TuxMathScrabble * Dr genius - interactive geometry programme and calculator; * dr. geo - builds geometric figures; * FET - automatically schedules the timetable of a school or university; * GenChemLab - simulates general chemistry laboratory exercises; * JUDO - vocabulary building tool for Gnome; * Kalcul - Java IDE for beginning programmers; * Kanjidrill - interactive math game for ages 8-15; * Kronophobia - helps users learn Japanese ‘Kanji’ characters; * Ksociograma - sociologic analysis for a group of students; * PurpleView – paper review system; * Tau - utility to track student attendance and scheduling; * WIMS - hosts interactive mathematical activities.
Misc, Online, Programming and Typing
The other categories are Misc (miscellaneous education), Online (education), Programming, and Typing. For Misc, the software available are: aldo (Morse code tutor), Koha (complete library system), Reciteword (programme to learn English language), WhiteBoard (courseware system for colleges and universities). AKFQuiz, Cce-interact, Ilias, Moodle, Spotter, TelEduc are for online education. For programming, the software available are: Cog Engine Project, GNU mdk, Guido von Robot, PiciLibre.
Kalzium
- Related to : Chemistry
- Applicable for : 10th class and above
- What does it do : This tool can give all possible information about chemical element.
- Details : It contains information about 103 chemical elements, including mass, charge, picture, discovery information, chemical and energy data, and a model of the atom. The table itself can be configured to display numeration, state of matter, and color-coding in various ways. Additionally, a date index is available, allowing only elements discovered up to a defined year to be shown. you can even plot
Childsplay
- Related to : Kids
- Applicable for : 1st standard and below
- What does it do : A educational tool for kids
- url : http://childsplay.sourceforge.net/
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External Links
- http://www.i4donline.net/oct04/ict_edu.asp
- http://www.edubuntu.org/applications/8.04
- http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Live#Educational
- OSCAR ( IIT-B initiative of producing animations for school education)
- FMSLogo ( a free version of erstwhile MSWLOgo)
OFFICE AND DESIGN • OPENOFFICE.ORG (FULLY COMPATIBLE OFFICE SOFTWARE • SCRIBUS (CREATE PROFESSIONAL LOOKING POSTERS AND MAGAZINES • DIA (MAKE TECHNICAL DIAGRAMS AND FLOWCHARTS) • FREE MIND (COLLECT YOUR IDEAS WITH THIS MIND MAPPING SOFTWARE) • GANTTPROJECT (PLAN YOUR PROJECTS WITH THIS PROJECT MANAGEMANT SOFTWARE) • PDF CREATOR (MAKE PDF DOCUMENTS FROM ANY PROGRAM) • SUMATRA PDF (READ PDF FILES QUICKLY AND EASILY) INTERNET • MOZILA FIREFOX (SAFE, SECURE AND FAST WEB BROWSER) • MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD (MANAGE YOUE EMAILS BETTER THAN EVER • PIDGIN (TALK TO YOUR FRIENDS WHATEVER INSTANT MESSAGE CLIENT THEY USE) • KOMPOZER (CREATE WEB PAGES WITH NO KNOWLEDGE OF CODE) • RSSOWL (KEEP UP WITH YOUR FAVOURITE INTERNET NEWS FEEDS ON YOUR DESKTOP) • PROJECT GUTENBERG (WEBLINK) DOWNLOADS BOOKS AND OTHER TEXTS FOR FREE • WIKIPEDIA (WEBLINK) THE FREE ON-LINE ENCYCLOPEDIA ART AND GRAPHICS • GNU IMAGE MANIPULATION PROGRAM (EDIT DIGITAL PHOTOS AND CREATE GRAPHICS) • INKSCAPE (MAKE PROFESSIONAL LOOKING VECTOR GRAPHICS) • PENCIL (MAKE YOUR OWN CARTOONS) • BLENDER (3D GRAPHIC MODELLING, ANIMATION, RENDERING AND PLAYBACK) • TUXPAINT (DRAWING PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN AGES 3 TO 12) • OPEN CLIPART LIBRARY (A GROWING COLLECTION OF FREE CLIP ART) . OPENOFFICE DRAW . WINGS3D -WIREMESH MODELLING . INTERIOR DECORATION MULTIMEDIA • AUDACITY (RECORD, EDIT AND MIX MUSIC) • TUXGUITAR (COMPOSE YOUR OWN MUSIC) • INFRA RECORDER (BURN YOUR CDS AND DVDS) • CAMSTUDIO (RECORD YOUR ACTIONS ON A COMPUTER) • REALLY SLICK SCREENSAVERS (GREAT LOOKING SCREENSAVERS) SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS • NASA WORLD WIND (DISCOVER THE EARTH AND OTHER PLANETS) • GREENFOOT (MAKE YOUR OWN GAMES AND LEARN HOW TO PROGRAM) • GRAPHCALC (A GRAPHICAL CALCULATOR) • GUIDO VAN ROBOT (TEACH YOURSELF HOW TO PROGRAM) • ALICE (USE PROGRAMMING TO MAKE YOUR OWN 3D ANIMATIONS) • SCRATCH (MAKE ANIMATIONS AND SHARE THEM ONLINE) • CARMETAL (COOL MATHEMATICAL MODELLING TOOL) • MAXIMA (UNIVERSITY STANDARD COMPUTER ALGEBRA SYSTEM) • CELESTIA (EXPLORE THE UNIVERSE IN THREE DIMENSIONS) • STELLARIUM (A PLANET ON YOUR PC) • PHET ( FREE SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS AND TOOLS) GAMES • FREECIV ( CONTROL THE WORLD THROUGH DIPLOMACY AND CONQUEST) • FREECOL (DISCOVER THE NEW WORLD AND BUILD AN EMPIRE) • NUMPTY PHYSICS (USE PHYSICS TO SOLVE A VARIETY OF EXCITING MISSIONS) • TUX TYPING 2 (LEARN TO TYPE LIKE A PRO) • TUX OF MATH COMMAND (TEST YOUR MATHEMATICAL SKILLS) • WINBOARD CHESS (THE CLASSIC GAME OF CHESS) UTILITIES • GIMP TOOL KIT (GTK +) MULTI-PLATFORM TOOLKIT FOR CREATING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES. . IMAGEMAGICK • 7-ZIP (COMPRESS AND UNCOMPRESS FILES IN A WIDE VARIETY OF FORMATS) • ABAKT (SCHEDULE AND RUN BACKUPS OF YOUR DATA) • WORKRAVE (PREVENT AND RECOVER FROM REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURY (RSI) . PDFSAM, PDFEDIT, PDFTK, PDFTOTEXT, PDFTOHTML, OPENOFFICE DRAW, SCRIBUS, . HTMLDOC -FOR PUBLISHING, DOCUMENT CONVERSION . FILE-ROLLER -SPLIT/UNSPLIT, COMPRESS/UNCOMPRESS ADVANCED INTERNET • NOTEPAD ++ ( A FAST TEXT EDITOR WITH SOME ADVANCED FEATURES FOR CODING) • FILEZILA (A FAST AND RELIABLE FTP CLIENT AND SERVER) • HTTRACK (DOWNLOAD WEBSITES FOR OFFLINE VIEWING) • WINSCP (SFTP AND SCP CLIENT) • TIGHTVNC (SEE THE DESKTOP OF A REMOTE COMPUTER AND CONTROL IT) ADMINISTRATIVE . MOODLE --CLASS SCHEDULES, TEACHER ASSIGNMENTS, ADMINISTRATION, CONTENT MGT SYSTEMS, . KOHA.ORG EMILDA.ORG --lIBRARY MANAGEMENT . OPENERP/GNUKHATA/ GNUCASH/--BOOK KEEPING . BACULA RSYNC ETC FOR BACKING UP DATA . SVN- MULTIPLE VERSIONS FOR DOCUMENTS/BOOKS, conducting meetings on same topics/issues PRIMARY SCHOOL SECONDARY SCHOOL/ HIGHER SECONDARY LEVEL TECHNICAL EBOOKS . FLAZX.COM MUSIC/ AUDIO UTILITY . SOX PUBLISHING/PROGRAMMING/COLLABORATION . SVN, GIT HANDLING WEBSITES . MOODLE, JOOMLA, DRUPAL--OPENCONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS . BLOGGING LITERATURE FOR MOTIVATION . PRODUCINGOSS.COM -open source collaboration techniques . HACKING HEROES/ HISTORY OF HACKING . BIOGRAPHY OF LINUS TORVALDS . BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD STALLMAN . YOUTUBE TALKS BY ATUL CHITNIS, GOOGLE TECHFESTS, GOOGLE TALKS . HOW TO THINK LIKE A COMPUTER SCIENTIST USING PYTHON PROGRAMMING . PYTHON AND ITS IDEs . BASH SCRIPTING GUIDE . LAMP, MYSQL, MYSQLADMIN, POSTGRESQL, APACHE, . REGULAR EXPRESSIONS . PHP, PERL, PYTHON, SED,AWK -SCRIPTING MATHS MODELLING /ENGINEERING/ MATHS GAMES/ APPLICATIONS OF MATHS . OCTAVE, SCILAB . GRUBIK -RUBIK'S CUBE . LATEX-- MATHS FORMULAS WRITING SPELLCHECK . ISPELL, MYSPELL WEIRD/OFFBEAT HOBBIES/ VOCATIONAL TRAINING . GARDENING/ KITCHEN GARDEN MANAGEMENT SOFTWARES . CAVE MANAGEMENT . HAM RADIO SOFTWARES . SATELLITE PROGRAMMING/ASSEMBLING SOFTWARES/DESIGNS . OPENHARDWARE . GEDA, ARDUINHO, ELECTRIC, -PCB DESIGNING, TINKERING WITH ELECTRONICS . INTERNET CAFE MANAGEMENT UTILITIES . GNUCASH, BOOKKEEPING SOFTWARES . OPENERP, OPENBRAVO, -ERP SOFTWARES . SUGARCRM -CRM SOFTWARES . OPENHOMEOPATHY- LEARN AND USE HOMEOPATHY-http://www.homeopathyonline.org/about_OpenRep.html . ANATOMY EXPLORATION/VIRTUAL DISSECTION--BIOLOGY . SCRIBUS, XARA3d,INKSCAPE- dtp, DESIGNING SOFT TOYS, . SVN, BOOK WRITING SOFTWARES . LATEX, KILE, ETC- BOOK PUBLISHING . http://www.sweethome3d.eu/documentation.html- JAVA BASED INTERIOR DESIGN SOFTWARE . QCAD, OPENCASCADE -CAD, DESIGN. DRAUGHTSMAN, CIVIL ENGG, INDUSTRIAL DESIGN . LINCITY, OPENSTREETMAP- TOWN PLANNING, CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNANCE IN URBAN AREAS . POSTGIS GRASS JAVA PROGRAMS FOR GIS --CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNANCE IN URBAN AREAS . TREKKING --USE OPENSTREETMAP, GPS/GIS FLOSS UTILITIES . ELECTRICAL WIRING DESIGN . FIRE MODELLING
