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08-29-2009, 05:07 AM
Australian Prime minister, Kevin Rudd is fulfilling his pre-election promise of providing a laptop for every school kid. Netbooks with Windows 7 code (which is not yet available to the general public) are currently being distributed to senior secondary students and teachers .
Here are the chosen open source applications to aid their learning process:
GeoGebra (http://www.geogebra.org/cms/) , a package for teaching high school math. It starts with geometry but also branches into algebra and calculus (http://www.geogebra.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=67&Itemid=63). Created by Marcus Hohenwarter (http://www.geogebra.org/cms/index.php?option=com_contact&task=view&contact_id=1&Itemid=60) for a master’s thesis at the University of Salzburg, he now runs the project out of Florida State University.
Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/), a sound editor also available under Linux. It was launched at Carnegie-Mellon 10 years ago (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/credits)by by Dominic Mazzoni and Roger Dannenberg (Mazzoni is still on the team) and now makes its home on Sourceforge.
FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) , a mind mapping program written in Java. Mind maps are a great way to outline and brainstorm, especially for those of us with ADD. It is not yet at Version 1.0, and it also lives at Sourceforge (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Marketing).
MuseScore (http://www.musescore.org/) , a music composition and notation program, which has also yet to reach Version 1.0. It recently delivered its first stable release for the Macintosh, and its developers have just begun working on a branding program (http://www.musescore.org/en/node/981).
Source: blogs.zdnet.com (http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4728)
Here are the chosen open source applications to aid their learning process:
GeoGebra (http://www.geogebra.org/cms/) , a package for teaching high school math. It starts with geometry but also branches into algebra and calculus (http://www.geogebra.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=67&Itemid=63). Created by Marcus Hohenwarter (http://www.geogebra.org/cms/index.php?option=com_contact&task=view&contact_id=1&Itemid=60) for a master’s thesis at the University of Salzburg, he now runs the project out of Florida State University.
Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/), a sound editor also available under Linux. It was launched at Carnegie-Mellon 10 years ago (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/credits)by by Dominic Mazzoni and Roger Dannenberg (Mazzoni is still on the team) and now makes its home on Sourceforge.
FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) , a mind mapping program written in Java. Mind maps are a great way to outline and brainstorm, especially for those of us with ADD. It is not yet at Version 1.0, and it also lives at Sourceforge (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Marketing).
MuseScore (http://www.musescore.org/) , a music composition and notation program, which has also yet to reach Version 1.0. It recently delivered its first stable release for the Macintosh, and its developers have just begun working on a branding program (http://www.musescore.org/en/node/981).
Source: blogs.zdnet.com (http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4728)