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Worlds best paint software for kids

May 29th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: Blog, Chris, Software

Watch the Tux Paint video on Youtube. Or download high resolution(810×630) Tux Paint video in Ogg, Avi and Flash format.
Tux paint is Free software. Visit the Tux Paint home page and download your free copy today.
Bill Kendrick has lots of awesome software. Check out New Breed Software - Games and stuff for Linux, Windows, Mac, [...]



Wiki skills training

May 22nd, 2008 | By Chris | Category: Education

WikiEducators next online Learning4Content workshop starts this Monday, 26 May
2008. Please help WikiEducator spread the word about this free
training opportunity and encourage folk to enrol and be supported in learning MediaWiki skills
Prospective participants can register online for the next workshop:
http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Registration
Please help WE achieve OUR targets to train 2500 educators (teachers,
lecturers and trainers) by the [...]



Open source tools in Secondlife - Meta Presenter

May 13th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: Education, Software, Video, virtual world

I’ve been thinking about useful tools for educators in secondlife. Meta Presenter is a simple, really easy to use tool for giving presentations. Its free and open source. Watch my Meta Presenter demo video on Youtube.



Thank you LearnScope

Mar 11th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: Blog, Chris, Education

A huge thanks to all the LearnScope people for the opportunity to talk about what I love and show the practical benefits of FOSS. It was great to see Alexander Hayes, Robyn Jay, Sean Fitzgerald, Jo Kay, Stephan Ridgeway and the people I’ve listened to in LearnScope podcasts. It was nice to meet the other [...]



Elearning Failure opinion - part 1

Feb 20th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: Blog, Chris, Education

Recently we’ve seen Wikieducator make a strong challenge to formal educational institutions using a model of open development with the works of authorship licensed under CC-BY-SA. Its still based around the usual model of “content” development, distribution and support services but in a free and open way, free to use for any purpose. Most educational [...]



Training Packages Unwrapped - Peter Shanks

Nov 21st, 2006 | By Chris | Category: Blog, Chris, Education

This is amazing work by Peter Shanks. Visit Training Packages Unwrapped.

Hello, Peter Shanks here. You might remember me from such web sites as ICA05 deconstructed and flicrCC. Come with me now as we explore the hidden world of TPU.
On this site I’ll be looking at how we can present [...]



Mixed News

Nov 16th, 2006 | By Chris | Category: Blog, Chris, Education, Software, Video

Wikiversity,WikiAngela,OLPC news



Web 2.0 in education

Oct 30th, 2006 | By Chris | Category: Blog, Chris, Education, Software

There’s an article on Digg titled “Detailed analysis of Web 2.0 in education ”
The article covers: educational blogging, photo sharing, educational podcasting, wikis, video sharing, Web 2.0 courses, School 2.0, and more.
If you aren’t familiar with web 2.0 then make sure to read the article.
Here’s my tongue in cheek Superuser Web 2.0 banner created with [...]



Pretty is a feature - Mark Shuttleworth

Oct 27th, 2006 | By Chris | Category: Blog, Chris, Education, Software

From Mark Shuttleworths blog
If we want the world to embrace free software, we have to make it beautiful. I’m not talking about inner beauty, not elegance, not ideological purity… pure, unadulterated, raw, visceral, lustful, shallow, skin deep beauty.
Make sure you read the rest of his blog. If you don’t know who Mark Shuttleworth is then [...]



Kids say “Thank you to (Ed)Ubuntu Team”

Oct 21st, 2006 | By Chris | Category: Blog, Chris, Education, Software

Edubuntu News:
Weve just installed these two donated computers in a community nursury and breakfast/after schol club in Lincolnshire, England. The machines are 600mhz/128mb/4.2gig and they took about 3/4’s of an hour to install and configure perfectly, and have cost the centre nothing!
The kids absolutely love them, most are from underpriviledged backgrounds and many of them [...]