Looking for Open Source in Education resources.

[Ray Cote]

Hi Folks.

I've had a group of educators who are putting together a school 
technology plan ask me to provide them with links to some of "this 
Open Source software" that's out there.

I've gathered a few links (see below) and I know there's folks on 
this list who track this sort of information.

The people I'm speaking with are mostly Windows folks with some 
Macintosh users as well.
I'm less interested in talking about the virtues of Linux, Firefox, 
and applications like Moodle at the moment and more interested in 
talking about the virtues of more education-specific applications.

Any pointers and guidance are greatly appreciated.

--Ray


Nashua Telegraph:
 
<http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060628/COLUMNISTS03/106280090/-1/opinion>

Create PDF files from any Windows application that prints.
     <http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator>

Open Source CD for Windows:
     <http://www.opensourcefreecd.org/>

Typing tutor for Windows:
     <http://www.edu-nix.org/software/typing_tutors.php>


Open Source Resources for Education:
 
<http://teacherlibrarianwiki.pbwiki.com/Open%20Source%20Resources%20for%20Education?raw=1>

Open Source Education Foundation:
      <http://www.osef.org/>

Eduforge:
     <http://educorge.org>

Inside Higher Ed:
     <http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/03/01/open>

K12 Open Source News for Schools
     <http://k12os.org>

K-12 Open Source:
     <http://www.netc.org/openoptions/>

Open Office
     <http://www.openoffice.org>

Moodle: Course Management System
     <http://moodle.com>


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