Free Software for Education http://tdm.info [email_address] Mobile: 0779 256 9415

http://tdm.info

[email_address]

Mobile: 0779 256 9415

Who are http://tdm.info ?? We improve e-Learning and e-Business with Open Source.

Hosting Training Consultancy Theme design Technical support Software support Software administration Software modifications Software integrations Instructional design Content design e-Moderation service Typing pool service Health checks Tender writing Strategy writing Report writing

Hosting

Training

Consultancy

Theme design

Technical support

Software support

Software administration

Software modifications

Software integrations

Instructional design

Content design

e-Moderation service

Typing pool service

Health checks

Tender writing

Strategy writing

Report writing

http://tdm.info are an official http://mahara.org Partner Organisation

Focus of this presentation e-Learning and e-Business WEBOGRAPHY of Free Software applications – all available at zero financial cost Make you aware of the importance and practical benefits of: Software Freedom emerging technologies

e-Learning and e-Business WEBOGRAPHY of Free Software applications – all available at zero financial cost

Make you aware of the importance and practical benefits of:

Software Freedom

emerging technologies

VLE e-Portfolio KnowledgeBase e-ILP Network Hub Course Authoring tools NVQ Tracking M-Learning An MLE - not just a VLE MLE = A Managed Learning Environment Video/Audio/Text Conferencing Content Management System Podcast / RSS feed Repository with Version control Project Management System Customer Relationship Management?

VLE

e-Portfolio

KnowledgeBase

e-ILP

Network Hub

Course Authoring tools

NVQ Tracking

M-Learning

Video/Audio/Text Conferencing

Content Management System

Podcast / RSS feed

Repository with Version control

Project Management System

Customer Relationship Management?

Why do you need an MLE? WBL 2.0 !! = e-Moderated Learning Peak-Oil & the Transition Economy Web 2.0 , Learning 2.0 and Work 2.0 Return on Investment Scaffolding the ZPD & e-Moderation

WBL 2.0 !! = e-Moderated Learning

Peak-Oil & the Transition Economy

Web 2.0 , Learning 2.0 and Work 2.0

Return on Investment

Scaffolding the ZPD & e-Moderation

Free Software Context (OSS / FOSS / FLOSS) “ Free ” as in “ Cost-Free ”. “ Free ” as in “ Free milk for babies ” – i.e. relinquishing control over your own data. “ Free ” as in “ Freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve ” the software you use. WARNING!! Logos shown on these slides with RED boxes represent software which is NOT “Free as in Freedom”

“ Free ” as in “ Cost-Free ”.

“ Free ” as in “ Free milk for babies ” – i.e. relinquishing control over your own data.

“ Free ” as in “ Freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve ” the software you use.

WARNING!! Logos shown on these slides with RED boxes represent software which is NOT “Free as in Freedom”

Free e-Portfolio http://mahara.org Some Alternatives: MyStuff (OU) ‏ Elgg MooFolio Moodle OSP (with Sakai)

http://mahara.org

Some Alternatives:

MyStuff (OU) ‏

Elgg

MooFolio

Moodle

OSP (with Sakai)

Free VLE = Virtual Learning Environment http://moodle.org/ Some Alternatives: Dokeos DrupalEd Bodington Sakai Claroline

http://moodle.org/

Some Alternatives:

Dokeos

DrupalEd

Bodington

Sakai

Claroline

Free Course Authoring Xerte: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/ eXe: http://www.exelearning.org/ LAMS: http://www.lamsinternational.com/ Udutu: http://www.udutu.com/

Xerte: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/

eXe: http://www.exelearning.org/

LAMS: http://www.lamsinternational.com/

Udutu: http://www.udutu.com/

Free Knowledgebase KBPublisher: http://www.kbpublisher.com

KBPublisher: http://www.kbpublisher.com

Free Conferencing DimDim: http://www.dimdim.com/ WengoPhone: http://www.openwengo.org/ GizmoProject: http://www.gizmoproject.com/ Yugma: http://www.yugma.com/

DimDim: http://www.dimdim.com/

WengoPhone: http://www.openwengo.org/

GizmoProject: http://www.gizmoproject.com/

Yugma: http://www.yugma.com/

Free Comic Creation MakeBeliefComix: http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/ Comiqs: http://comiqs.com/ Pixton: http://www.pixton.com/home

MakeBeliefComix: http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

Comiqs: http://comiqs.com/

Pixton: http://www.pixton.com/home

Free Online Whiteboards and note-sharing Google Notebook: http://www.google.com/notebook Jotspace(Alpha): http://www.jotspace.com/ Skrbl(Beta): http://www.skrbl.com/

Google Notebook: http://www.google.com/notebook

Jotspace(Alpha): http://www.jotspace.com/

Skrbl(Beta): http://www.skrbl.com/

Free Drawing & Mind-Mapping FreeMind: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Dia: http://live.gnome.org/Dia OOo Draw: http://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html

FreeMind: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Dia: http://live.gnome.org/Dia

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

Cost-Free Screencasting Wink: http://www.debugmode.com/wink Screencast-o-Matic: http://www.screencast-o-matic.com Istanbul (Linux-only): http://live.gnome.org/Istanbul

Wink: http://www.debugmode.com/wink

Screencast-o-Matic: http://www.screencast-o-matic.com

Istanbul (Linux-only): http://live.gnome.org/Istanbul

Jane Hart’s Directory of Learning tools The Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/index.html Fill yer boots!!

The Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies:

http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/index.html

Fill yer boots!!

Free Blogging Wordpress: http://wordpress.org/ b2evololution: http://b2evolution.net/ Blogger: http://www.blogger.com

Wordpress: http://wordpress.org/

b2evololution: http://b2evolution.net/

Blogger: http://www.blogger.com

Free Podcasting Ardour: http://ardour.org/ Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net The Levelator: http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator Juice: http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/ Pod-O-Matic: http://www.podomatic.com

Ardour: http://ardour.org/

Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net

The Levelator: http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator

Juice: http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/

Pod-O-Matic: http://www.podomatic.com

Free Wikis MediaWiki: http://www.mediawiki.org Twiki: http://twiki.org/ PmWiki: http://www.pmwiki.org/

MediaWiki: http://www.mediawiki.org

Twiki: http://twiki.org/

PmWiki: http://www.pmwiki.org/

Free Surveys LimeSurvey: http://www.limesurvey.org SurveyMonkey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/ Joomla/Drupal/Moodle, etc.

LimeSurvey: http://www.limesurvey.org

SurveyMonkey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/

Joomla/Drupal/Moodle, etc.

Free Software for e-Business The Ethical Case The Business Case The Technological Case

The Ethical Case

The Business Case

The Technological Case

The Ethical Case for choosing Free Software Cost-Free Software for ALL Sharing is more fun We still want to live in a “FREE” world National Security

Cost-Free Software for ALL

Sharing is more fun

We still want to live in a “FREE” world

National Security

The Business Case for choosing Free Software Enterprise class software available Open Data Standards Avoid vendor lock-in/being tied to a company Cost-savings + cost and control implications YOU can be involved in the development process

Enterprise class software available

Open Data Standards

Avoid vendor lock-in/being tied to a company

Cost-savings + cost and control implications

YOU can be involved in the development process

The Technological Case for choosing Free Software Increased security, reliability & stability Easily modified to suit YOUR needs Faster development / reduced bugs Flexibility and Freedom

Increased security, reliability & stability

Easily modified to suit YOUR needs

Faster development / reduced bugs

Flexibility and Freedom

More discussions on the benefits of choosing Free Software http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/ http://jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/inform19.aspx#anopen http://www.fsf.org/ http://www.opensource.org/ http://www.netc.org/openoptions/pros_cons/comparing.html http://www.openadvantage.org/about/opensource http://open-source.gbdirect.co.uk/migration/benefit.html http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/chapter/452 http://www.idealware.org/articles/true_costs_software.php http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance-IT/Are-Open-Source-and-Capitalism-Worlds-Apart/ http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html http://www.diaplous.org/response.htm

http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/

http://jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/inform19.aspx#anopen

http://www.fsf.org/

http://www.opensource.org/

http://www.netc.org/openoptions/pros_cons/comparing.html

http://www.openadvantage.org/about/opensource

http://open-source.gbdirect.co.uk/migration/benefit.html

http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/chapter/452

http://www.idealware.org/articles/true_costs_software.php

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance-IT/Are-Open-Source-and-Capitalism-Worlds-Apart/

http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html

http://www.diaplous.org/response.htm

Free Website CMSs http://www.joomla.org Some Alternatives: Drupal Typo3 Plone Wordpress

http://www.joomla.org

Some Alternatives:

Drupal

Typo3

Plone

Wordpress

Free ECMS = Enterprise Content Management System http://www.alfresco.com Alternatively run Open Office with a Subversion plug-in

http://www.alfresco.com

Alternatively run Open Office with a Subversion plug-in

Free CRM = Customer Relationship Management http://www.sugarcrm.com Some alternatives: vtiger openCRX CiviCRM

http://www.sugarcrm.com

Some alternatives:

vtiger

openCRX

CiviCRM

Open Source Integrations Mahoodle = Mahara + Moodle MahJoodle = Mahara + Joomla + Moodle MAhJoodle = Mahara + Alfresco + Joomla + Moodle MAhJoodleCRM = Mahara + Alfresco + Joomla + Moodle + SugarCRM (or vTiger) ... And the names can get sillier and sillier.... !!

Mahoodle = Mahara + Moodle

MahJoodle = Mahara + Joomla + Moodle

MAhJoodle = Mahara + Alfresco + Joomla + Moodle

MAhJoodleCRM = Mahara + Alfresco + Joomla + Moodle + SugarCRM (or vTiger)

... And the names can get sillier and sillier.... !!

Free Project Management dotProject: http://www.dotproject.net Some alternatives: Collabtive Gantt Project Project Fork Open Workbench

dotProject: http://www.dotproject.net

Some alternatives:

Collabtive

Gantt Project

Project Fork

Open Workbench

Free Website Authoring Amaya: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ Kompozer: http://kompozer.net/ EasyEclipse: http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/home QuantaPlus: http://quanta.kdewebdev.org

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

Kompozer: http://kompozer.net/

EasyEclipse: http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/home

QuantaPlus: http://quanta.kdewebdev.org

Free Graphics / Publishing GIMP: http://www.gimp.org Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org Blender: http://www.blender.org Scribus: http://www.scribus.net

GIMP: http://www.gimp.org

Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org

Blender: http://www.blender.org

Scribus: http://www.scribus.net

Free Office Software OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org Google Docs: http://docs.google.com Zoho: http://www.zoho.com/

OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org

Google Docs: http://docs.google.com

Zoho: http://www.zoho.com/

Free VOIP http://www.trixbox.org/ Some alternatives: Wengophone Gizmo ( not FOSS) ‏

http://www.trixbox.org/

Some alternatives:

Wengophone

Gizmo ( not FOSS) ‏

Free e-Groupware Manage your business online! http://www.egroupware.org Some alternatives: phpGroupware dotProject TUTOS

Manage your business online!

http://www.egroupware.org

Some alternatives:

phpGroupware

dotProject

TUTOS

Free Finance Management GnuCash: http://www.gnucash.org/ PayThyme: http://www.paythyme.com/ TurboCash: http://www.turbocashuk.com/

GnuCash: http://www.gnucash.org/

PayThyme: http://www.paythyme.com/

TurboCash: http://www.turbocashuk.com/

Free Resource Planning (ERP = Enterprise Resource Planning) OpenTaps: http://www.opentaps.org/ Compiere: http://www.compiere.com/ SQLLedger: http://sql-ledger.org

OpenTaps: http://www.opentaps.org/

Compiere: http://www.compiere.com/

SQLLedger: http://sql-ledger.org

Free e-Commerce http://www.oscommerce.com Some alternatives: CubeCart Magento Fishcart Ubercart Drupal / Joomla

http://www.oscommerce.com

Some alternatives:

CubeCart

Magento

Fishcart

Ubercart

Drupal / Joomla

The list is endless... Accountancy / Payroll Multimedia / Conferencing Enterprise Resource Planning Data Storage File sharing Time-Tracking Educational software Security software ...etc...etc...etc...

Accountancy / Payroll

Multimedia / Conferencing

Enterprise Resource Planning

Data Storage

File sharing

Time-Tracking

Educational software

Security software

...etc...etc...etc...

More Free Software Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_software_packages http://www.osalt.com/ https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ListOfOpenSourcePrograms http://www.opensourcewindows.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_software_packages

http://www.osalt.com/

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ListOfOpenSourcePrograms

http://www.opensourcewindows.org/

A Free Desktop OS A Linux Operating System http://www.ubuntu.com/ Some Alternatives: Mandriva Fedora PCLinuxOS

A Linux Operating System

http://www.ubuntu.com/

Some Alternatives:

Mandriva

Fedora

PCLinuxOS

Mac/PC/Linux Spoofs Novell have produced these funny clips (on You Tube): “ There’s someone else around...” “ If the jacket fits...” The Linux (and other FOSS) developer communities can leap off each other’s shoulders!!

Novell have produced these funny clips (on You Tube):

“ There’s someone else around...”

“ If the jacket fits...”

The Linux (and other FOSS) developer communities can leap off each other’s shoulders!!

Many organisations already use Linux Desktops... Municipal Council of Munich Junta de Andalucia

Municipal Council of Munich

Junta de Andalucia

For more information and practical support... http://tdm.info http://www.thedevelopmentmanager.com http://thedevelopmentmanager.com/blog Derrin Kent derrin@thedevelopmentmanager.com Mobile: 0779 256 9415

http://tdm.info

http://www.thedevelopmentmanager.com http://thedevelopmentmanager.com/blog

Derrin Kent

derrin@thedevelopmentmanager.com

Mobile: 0779 256 9415

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