http://www.edubuntu.org/
http://doc.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/edubuntu/handbook/C/ch01s01.html
Edubuntu is an operating system designed with education in mind. It is based on Ubuntu, a complete operating system that uses the Linux kernel and is freely available to anyone. As an education-driven operating system, Edubuntu provides a complete solution for:
http://doc.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/edubuntu/handbook/C/ch01s01.html
Edubuntu is an operating system designed with education in mind. It is based on Ubuntu, a complete operating system that uses the Linux kernel and is freely available to anyone. As an education-driven operating system, Edubuntu provides a complete solution for:
- An organization or Education Ministry that is wanting to take full advantage of the benefits that open source software offers to the educational environment.
- Educators and school personnel who would like to set up Edubuntu in a networked learning environment.
- Home users who would like to have a standalone computer system that focuses on education for the younger members of the household.
We are is entirely committed to the principles of open source software development; we encourage people to use open source software, improve it, and pass it on.
Edubuntu is meant for anyone who wants a computer laboratory that makes good use of free software and the widest variety of hardware. It is designed to be easy to administer and is well documented.
It can run on inexpensive, 10-year-old IBM-compatible computers as well as brand new I64-based systems. The growing Edubuntu community is working together to share ideas and solutions for bringing computing and communications power to teachers, students and community members everywhere.
One of the key technologies included is the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) which allows you to boot thin clients from an Edubuntu LTSP server. For educational environments, LTSP lowers hardware costs by enabling the use of older or less powerful machines as thin clients, as well as reduced administration overhead by having only to install and maintain the software on the server.
When a workstation fails, it can simply be replaced without data loss or reinstallation of the operating system.
http://www.toondoo.com/
use: story boarding & writing tool click here for an example
Great for Internet Safety Month
use: story boarding & writing tool click here for an example
Great for Internet Safety Month
A virtual "kid nation" (CBS TV show) like online sim (simulator): teaches basic sociology
http://geekteach.synthasite.com/index.php
- National Library of Virutal Manipulatives
- http://www.thinkfinity.org/home.aspx
- http://readwritethink.org/index.asp
For very old students like me!
http://www.archive.org/details/education
- http://www.archive.org/details/arsdigita ArsDigita University was a one-year, intensive post-baccalaureate program in Computer Science based on the undergraduate course of study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
- The majority of the instructors were professors from MIT and the program was tuition free. After running from September 2000 through July 2001, seeing the first class to graduation, the program was forced to shut down.This library of open educational resources includes lectures and coursework from the ArsDigita curriculum. These university level materials are available for free download.
