FLOSS - Free/Libre/Open-Source Software ...
Although the DiDA delivered project is now complete (check out the completed resources at http://www.dida-delivered.org ) this still stands as a collection of fantastic software alternatives and collection of resources to help your school teach DiDA successfully!
Advanced CamStudio 3 - Screen capture program for presentations and software demonstrations like Camtasia. Screen Recorder saves video as avi or swf flash movie. Auto Snapshot feature, Gallery Maker, jpg to avi converter, full annotations, audio support. |
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| ZipCentral - ZipCentral is a free and easy to use zip file manager with all the utilities you need to manage your zip files. Find out more >> |
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| PhotoStory - Microsoft's Photostory 3 Create slide shows using your digital photos. With a single click, you can touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures. Add stunning special effects, soundtracks, and your own voice narration to your photo stories. Then, personalize them with titles and captions. Find out more >> |
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Wink - Wink is a FREE Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software. Using Wink you can capture screen shots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users. Find out more >> |
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Wisdom - 2 fantastic FREE products AutoScreenRecorder (Recording every thing you see or you do on the screen to a video file) and ScreenHunter (Capture screen rectangle, window and full screen with mouse pointer). Find out more >> |
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Nvu - NVU (pronounced N-view, for a "new view") makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML. Find out more >> |
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Inkscape - Inkscape is an open source drawing tool with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, and CorelDraw that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Find out more >> |
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GNU Image Manipulation Program (Gimp)
- It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo
retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many
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| Audacity - Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. Find out more >> |
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IrfanView - IfranView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE graphic viewer for Windows operating systems. Find out more >> |
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The Hot Potatoes suite - includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Find out more >> |
| Open Office - Open office is a free office suite OpenOffice.org is both a multi-platform and multi-lingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. Find out more >> |
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SCRAN - Scran is an online learning resource service and educational environment with 300,000 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media. It can be used as quality clip art or for learning applications.
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Audio Network - Through collaboration of all the UK's Regional Broadband Consortia Audio Network allows teachers and students to download any of the music files free of charge with only two conditions:
- users must be on a machine connected to the local RBC to get free downloads
- the downloaded files must not be used for any commercial purposes
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