Saturday, April 9, 2016

Open Source - Free!



PETE&C 2015
Abiword free Word

Www.pennmanor.net/techblog to get list

Libreoffice - free office (use this one) working on translating any file

FocusWriter - brings screen to write, zen-like white screen, save by rtf or txt format ...typewriter mode

Scratch - coding run on web

Ren'py - merges graphics with student text. Custom stories

Mine test - free to play like Minecraft

Bracket - Adobe for free, clean editor, clean interface. When running, watch what kids

Gnucash - equivalent to Quicken

Gimp - replacement to photoshop functionality the same

Inkscape - replaces illustrator vector based

Scribus - desktop publishing end design

Krita - bit map drawing program

Wordpress - publishing platform, host website. Classroom website, district, etc.

Stellarium - planetarium in a box

Audacity - audio editing

Musescore- music composition

Openshot - LINEX ONLY

Owncloud.org - replaces dropbox and boxdrop, must be set up

Koha- free library system

Ubuntu - nice interface

Github.com - student helpdesk, ticket engine, helps with career day, can survey students, creates rosters

@charlie3 for tweetsETE&

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