Open Source Software for Macs in the

Primary / Elementary School

Mark RichardsonICT Coordinator, Williamstown PS

MacSchoolsNet meeting 03.09.2009

[ **** As with any software recommendations in my blog, websites and presentationswhat I write or talk about, is my opinion only and I take no responsibility

for anything going wrong with your computer, server, network etc.. Please read the conditions and product disclosures and EULA for each application.

Always exercise care and caution!]Based on my presentation at the VITTA Open for Education Day

Why Use Open Source Software in the Primary / Elementary School?

I have only started investing FOSS in recent times. This is because that the software that comes with a Mac is just great and it discourages use of some open source software. Why use Audacity, if you have GarageBand? If you want to web author, just use iWeb! If you want to create a pdf then OSX does it as part of the printing phase!

Why Use Open Source Software in the Primary / Elementary School?

However, in looking for an alternative for a Word Processing / Presentation / Drawing / Spreadsheet / Database suite, now that Appleworks is no longer bundled with Macs, Open Office is a great alternative.

Why Use Open Source Software in the Primary / Elementary School?

It's free [and therefore of great interest to those who balance school budgets!]

Each application has a community / forums [which means a lot of problem solving has been done by many others. They are a great support team!]

Most applications while not having all the “bells and whistles” of a commercial application, work well!

Why Use Open Source Software in the Primary / Elementary School?

Sometimes when teaching students, you don't want all the “bells and whistles” anyway!

There is not much that you can't do with a range of open source applications.

Sometimes open source applications are the best solution anyway!

What's in this list?

That which is described as ....

Being free OSS Where the code is

given out Where the software

has a development community

But not ......

Shareware Freeware Web 2.0 tools Other software that

doesn't meet the conditions in column one

Open Source Software for Macs in the

Primary / Elementary School

Open Source for

Word Processing

Open OfficeOpen Office Writer

OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

http://www.openoffice.org/

Bean

● Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor), designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is Open Source, fully Cocoa, and is available free of charge!

http://www.bean-osx.com/Bean.html

Neo Office

NeoOffice is a full-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database programs) for Mac OS X. Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, NeoOffice has integrated dozens of native Mac features and can import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office.

http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php

Open Source Software for Macs in the

Primary / Elementary School

Open Source for

Presentation / Multimedia/ DTP

Open Office Open Office Impress

OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

http://www.openoffice.org/

Scribus

Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.

http://www.scribus.net/

Open Source Software for Macs in the

Primary / Elementary School

Open Source for

Databases

Open Office

Open Office Base

OpenOffice.org always had database front end tools, but in past versions they were very hidden. OpenOffice.org starts to handle databases like any other application, i.e. a new database can be created via the "File - New" menu. For novice users OpenOffice.org provides a new Table Wizard that allows creating database tables without any knowledge of databases or SQL.

http://www.openoffice.org/

Open Source Software for Macs in the

Primary / Elementary School

Open Source for

Spreadsheets

Open Office Calc Open Office CalcThe all-purpose spreadsheet

Calc is the spreadsheet program you've always wanted. Newcomers find it intuitive and easy to learn; professional data miners and number crunchers will appreciate the comprehensive range of advanced functions.

Calc Advanced DataPilot technology makes it easy to pull in raw data from corporate databases; cross-tabulate, summarise, and convert it into meaningful information.

http://www.openoffice.org/calc

Open Source Software for Macs in the

Primary / Elementary School

Open Source for

Drawing

Open Office DrawOpen Office Draw

OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

http://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html

Open Source Software for Macs in the

Primary / Elementary School

Open Source for

Programming / Gaming

Scratch

●Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.

●Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

http://scratch.mit.edu/

Open Source Software for Macs in the

Primary / Elementary School

Open Source for

Primary Curriculum

TuxTyping

TuxTyping is an educational typing tutor for children starring Tux, the Linux Penguin. It is graphical and requires SDL. It is copyrighted under the Gnu General Public License (included with the source code) and is freely distributable under the Gnu GPL's requirements.

http://www.geekcomix.com/dm/tuxtype/http://tuxtype.sourceforge.net/download/

Tux Paint Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative.

http://www.tuxpaint.org/

Paintbrush

Paintbrush is a simple paint program for Mac OS X, reminiscent of Microsoft Paint and Apple’s own now-defunct MacPaint. It provides users with a means to make simple images quickly, something which has been noticeably absent from the Mac for years.

http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/

Tux Math

"Tux, of Math Command" is a math drill game starring Tux, the Linux Penguin. Lessons are included from simple number typing through addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of positive and negative numbers. It is intended for kids 4-10.

http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/tuxmath.phphttp://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxmath/

Open Source Software for Macs in the

Primary / Elementary School

Open Source for

Graphics

GIMP ● GIMP is the GNU

Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. http://www.gimp.org/

Inkscape ●An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to

Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

● Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.

http://www.inkscape.org/

Open Source Software for Macs in the

Primary / Elementary School

Open Source for

DV / Animation

Pencil

Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.

http://www.pencil-animation.org/

VLC Media Player

● VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, etc) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

●` It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in a high-bandwidth network.

http://www.videolan.org/

Perian

●Perian enables QuickTime application support for additional media:● * File formats: AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6, and VFW● * Video types: MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, Sorenson H.263, FLV/

Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Snow, NuppelVideo, Techsmith Screen Capture, DosBox Capture

● * Audio types: Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), and MPEG Layer I & II Audio, True Audio, DTS Coherent Acoustics, Nellymoser ASAO

● * AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3● * Subtitle support for SSA/ASS and SRT

http://perian.org/

Open Source Software for Macs in the

Primary / Elementary School

Open Source for

Mind Mapping / Concept Mapping

CMap Tools

● The CmapTools program empowers users to construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps. It allows users to, among many other features, construct their Cmaps in their personal computer, share them on servers (CmapServers) anywhere on the Internet, link their Cmaps to other Cmaps on servers, automatically create web pages of their concept maps on servers, edit their maps synchronously (at the same time) with other users on the Internet, and search the web for information relevant to a concept map.

http://cmap.ihmc.us/conceptmap.html

FreeMind● FreeMind is a premier free mind-

mapping (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map) software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click "fold / unfold" and "follow link" operations.

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Download

Open Source Software for Macs in the

Primary / Elementary School

Open Source for

Podcasting

Audacity● Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor

and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.

● You can use Audacity to:●

● * Record live audio.● * Convert tapes and records into digital

recordings or CDs.● * Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound

files.● * Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.● * Change the speed or pitch of a recording.● * And more! See the complete list of features.●

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Open Source Software for Macs in the

Primary / Elementary SchoolOpen Source

for Web:

Browsing Authoring

Downloading

Mozilla Firefox● Mozilla Firefox is a free web

browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. Firefox had 22.48% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of April 2009, making it the second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide, after Internet Explorer.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/

Mozilla Camino● Camino is an open source web browser

developed with a focus on providing the best possible experience for Mac OS X users.

● The Camino Project has worked to create a browser that is as functional and elegant as the computers it runs on. The Camino web browser is powerful, secure, and ready to meet the needs of all users while remaining simple and elegant in its design.

http://caminobrowser.org/

SeaMonkey [Mozilla Composer]

The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey all-in-one internet application suite (see below). Such a software suite was previously made popular by Netscape and Mozilla, and the SeaMonkey project continues to develop and deliver high-quality updates to this concept. Containing an Internet browser, email & newsgroup client, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools, SeaMonkey is sure to appeal to advanced users, web developers and corporate users.

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Amaya

Amaya is a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. This follows the original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a one-way publishing medium.

http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

Nvu

Nvu (pronounced N-view, for a "new view") is a complete Web Authoring System that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web page editing. Nvu is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.

http://www.net2.com/nvu/

SiteSucker What is SiteSucker?

SiteSucker is a Macintosh application that automatically downloads Web sites from the Internet. It does this by asynchronously copying the site's Web pages, images, backgrounds, movies, and other files to your local hard drive. Just enter a URL (Uniform Resource Locator), press return, and SiteSucker can download an entire Web site.

http://www.sitesucker.us/home.html

●Juice Receiver [Mac / Win / Lin]*

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http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/

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So what is it?Want to listen to internet audio programs but can't when they are scheduled? This program lets you create your own custom online audio anytime, anywhere. Really.

FTPCyberduck

Cyberduck is an open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Mosso Cloud Files and Amazon S3 browser for the Mac.

http://cyberduck.ch/

●ClamAV

http://www.clamav.net/

Anti Virus

Open Source Software for Intel Macs in the

Primary / Elementary School

Open Source for

Operating Systems

Ubuntu [Linux]

Ubuntu is an African word meaning ‘Humanity to others’, or ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’.

The Ubuntu distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world.

http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/810features/

One of a number of versions and flavours of Linux

Ubuntu

Open Source Software for Macs in the

Primary / Elementary School

Open Source for

Servers

● Squid Proxy: Optimising Web Delivery

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. It runs on most available operating systems, including Windows and is licensed under the GNU GPL.

http://www.squid-cache.org/

]* Internet Cache

●Squirrel MailSquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP. It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages render in pure HTML 4.0 (with no JavaScript required) for maximum compatibility across browsers. It has very few requirements and is very easy to confi gure and install. SquirrelMail has all the functionality you would want from an email client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation.

http://squirrelmail.org/

Mail Server

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