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Open source All-Star team

by Tim Wilson on November 8th, 2006 Clip to Evernote

I’m doing a talk at this year’s TIES Education Technology Conference called “Open Source Tools You Can Use.” Here’s the description:

From tech support systems to graphics applications, there are hundreds of free and open source applications that will fit easily into your school’s technology environment. Participants will learn about the open source software model and get a “top 10” list of open source applications.

Now I’ve got plenty of ideas in my head about what apps will constitute my top 10 list, but I’d like to hear from you. What open source applications would make it on your All-Star team?

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8 Comments
  1. John Pederson permalink

    http://www.wikipedia.com
    http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons

    Content.

  2. Chris Lehmann permalink

    Moodle
    SquirrelMail
    Drupal
    Edbuntu in general

  3. Roger permalink

    GIMPShop
    Picasa, not necessarily open source but free.

  4. Tim permalink

    I would certainly include Firefox and WordPress in that list.

  5. Kathy Schrock permalink

    Audacity!

  6. Tim Wilson permalink

    I’m sure I’ll have a mix of IT folks and teachers. On the server side, I think Request Tracker for trouble ticketing, MediaWiki, ELGG, and K12LTSP would be candidates. Also Celestia on the desktop is really great.

  7. Tim Wilson permalink

    I almost forgot OpenOffice! VLC is also great for multimedia playback.

  8. Larry Tuura permalink

    I would recommend Joomla for school Web sites. It’s incredibly configurable and has hundreds of modules that can be added for almost any purpose. Once you add the JCE module for rich text editing, you can upoload pictures, files, videos, podcasts, etc. from a toolbar. Teachers love it.

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