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Slide 1: Software for Starving Students
Steve C. Yuen, Ph.D. Professor The University of Southern Mississippi Patrivan K. Yuen, M.A., M.Ed., M.L.S. Technical Services/Systems Librarian William Carey University
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Slide 2: Problems
Many schools have hardware but have very few software tools available for teachers and students High cost of educational software Lack of adequate budget to purchase software in schools Many students and parents can’t afford to purchase educational software Software piracy in schools
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Slide 3: A Solution
Adopt Open-Source Software or Free Software in schools
– – – – Free Reliable Community License relief. Keep students from pirating software and violating proprietary licensing agreements. – Allow students, teachers, administrators, and parents to exchange electronic documents. – Minimize cost and allow funding to be diverted to equipment and other programs.
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Slide 4: A CD-ROM created by SoftwareFor.org Help students get free software programs without paying the high price of commercial software Contain a list of best-in-class programs Download free at www.softwarefor.org Come with an easy-to-use interface
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Slide 5: Available for both Mac and Windows platforms. Most of the software programs in the CDROM are open source and few of them are obtained and distributed by permission. Users are free to make copies of the software programs, or even the whole CDROM, and give them away to anyone.
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Slide 6: Software are arranged in 13 categories: Art & Graphics, Astronomy & Space, Computer Science, Games, Internet, Keyboarding, Mathematics, Multimedia, Office, Publishing, Security, Studying, and Utility. The Windows version contains 41 software programs. The Mac version has 31 programs.
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Slide 9: Art & Graphics
Blender
– A suite of tools for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, interactive creation and playback.
Inkscape
– An open source drawing tool with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, and CorelDraw that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG).
Paint.NET
– An image and photo manipulation software.
POV-Ray
– A 3D program that allows users to create 3D, photorealistic images using a rendering technique called raytracing.
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Slide 10: Inkscape
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Slide 11: Paint.NET
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Slide 12: Astronomy & Space
Celestia
– A real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in 3D.
Stellarium
– A free open source planetarium that shows a realistic sky in 3D.
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Slide 13: Stellarium
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Slide 14: Computer Science
FileZilla Notepad++ Putty
– A powerful, fast, and reliable FTP-client. – A free source code editor. – A client for running a remote session on a computer via the SSH, Telnet, and Rlogin network protocols – An easy to use Revision Control / Version Control / Source Control software for Windows. – An easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl.
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Tortoise SVN XAMPP
Slide 15: FileZilla
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Slide 16: Notepad++
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Slide 17: Games
Freeciv
– A multiplayer, turn-based strategy game.
Icebreaker
– A game to trap penguins.
SuperTux
– A classic jump-and-run sidescroller game similar to the original SuperMario games.
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Slide 18: Internet
Firefox
– A fast, reliable, and customizable Web browser.
Pidgin
– A multi-protocol instant messaging client.
Thunderbird
– An email client.
uTorrent
– A program that uses the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-transfer protocol.
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Slide 19: Thunderbird
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Slide 20: uTorrent
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Slide 21: Keyboarding
Tux Typing 2
– An educational typing tutor for children starring Tux, the Linux Penguin. Its features include several different types of game play and a variety of difficulty levels.
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Slide 22: Tux Typing 2
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Slide 23: Mathematics
GeoGebra
– A dynamic geometry software. – You can work with points, vectors, segments, lines, conic sections, functions, integrals, derivatives and more.
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Slide 24: GeoGebra
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Slide 25: Multimedia
Audacity Exact Audio Copy Juice
– An audio editor. – A CD audio grabber that reads audio CDs. – A podcast receiver. – A portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats. – A tutorial and presentation creation software. – A program converts audio files to dozens of types, including MP3 and OGG Vorbis.
VLC Media Player Wink
winLame
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Slide 26: Audacity
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Slide 27: Juice
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Slide 28: Wink
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Slide 29: WinLame
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Slide 30: Office
Dia
– A program for drawing diagrams.
OpenOffice.org
– A multi-platform office productivity suite. – Include word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites.
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Slide 31: OpenOffice - Writer
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Slide 32: OpenOffice - Calc
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Slide 33: OpenOffice - Impress
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Slide 34: OpenOffice - Draw
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Slide 35: OpenOffice - Base
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Slide 36: OpenOffice - Math
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Slide 37: Publishing
Scribus
– A professional page layout program – Feature "press-ready" output and support professional publishing features such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and PDF creation.
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Slide 38: Scribus
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Slide 39: Security
ClamWin
– An antivirus program.
KeePass
– A free/open-source password manager.
Spybot Search & Destroy
– An anti-spyware tool that detects and removes spyware.
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Slide 40: ClamWin
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Slide 41: Spybot Search & Destroy
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Slide 42: Studying
JMemorize
– Manage your learning processes by using flashcards and the famous Leitner system.
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Slide 43: Utility
7-Zip Ant Renamer
– A file archiver and compression utility. – Mass-rename files and folders. – A free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. – Disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows.
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InfraRecorder WinDirStat
Slide 44: 7-Zip
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Slide 45: AntRenamer
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Slide 46: InfraRecorder
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Slide 47: WinDirStat
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Slide 48: Open Disc
A collection of high quality open source software for Windows The Open Disc CD-ROM contains 39 software tools in 6 categories:
– – – – – – Design Games Internet Multimedia Productivity Utilities
www.theopendisc.com
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Slide 49: Resources
Free Software Foundation
– www.fsf.org
K12OS.org
– k12OS.org
Open Source Education Foundation
– www.osef.org
SourceForge.net
– sourceforge.net
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Slide 50: My Blog “Tech Learning”
Provide reviews on many OpenSource Software and Freeware blog.yuen.us
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Slide 51: The End
Questions or Comments?
Thank You for Attending Our session!
This presentation is available on the Web at:
http://www.slideshare.net/scyuen/
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