This document provides a summary of free and open source software and tools that can be used by teachers. It lists over 100 websites for word processing, reading, math, social studies, languages, science, art, music, web design, programming, lesson planning, and other subjects. Many of the tools listed are cross-platform and available for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems.

1. Free and Open Source Software and Tools for Teachers Delta Kappa Gamma North East Conference July 23, 2009 Linda Prescott [email_address] Alpha Psi State Mu Chapter

2. Professional Development Teacher Web www.teacherweb.com freewebinars, articles, discussions Teachertube videos, books http://teachertube.com/ Education Week articles, reports, http://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html National Center for Open Source and Education http://www.ncose.org/

3. United Streaming Discovery Education Free access to movies and clips 30 day trial Become a star! Free “stuff” and downloads Free professional development Online lesson planning Share lessons Telephone support

4. Word Processing Software Neo Office http://www.neooffice.org Open Office http://www.openoffice.com/ PDF Creator (windows) http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator Scribus desktop publishing www.scribus.net Fontmaker www.yourfonts.com Abiword http://www.abiword.com/ http://mashable.com/2008/12/13/writers-toolbox/

5. Reading Scribd www.scribd.com books, magazines,not all free Education week www.edweek.org/ew/section/feeds/all_widgets.html Letters and sounds www.yourchildlearns.com K - 2 nd Learning to Read http://www.literactive.com/Home/index.asp Childrens books online All ages http://www.biguniverse.com/

6. Math Msteacher middle school software http://msteacher.org/math/ SciLab http://www.scilab.org/ Geometry http://math247.pbworks.com/Learn-and-Use-GeoGebra http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Math/Software/ Sage http://www.sagemath.org/ Everything about math! http://mathforum.org/arithmetic/arith.puzzles.html

7. Social Studies IZZIT http://www.izzit.org/ Stossel in the Classroom streamvideo/cds http://stosselintheclassroom.org/ Teaching Tolerance www.tolerance.org/teach/ Google Earth www.google.com Food and Culture http://www.foodtimeline.org/food1.html http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do

8. Language Klettres several languages http://edu.kde.org/klettres/ Kiten French http://edu.kde.org/kiten/ Kverbos Spanish http://edu.kde.org/kverbos/ Ktranslator http://ktranslator.sourceforge.net/

9. Astronomy www.celestia.sourceforge.net www.stellarium.sourceforge.net Environment Tox Mystery [email_address] http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/ http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/oceans.html Science digital library http://nsdl.org/ http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow8/dec98/web.html Science

10. Photography and Image Editing GimpShop www.gimpshop.com Picassa http://picasa.google.com/mac/ Photoscape www.photoscape.org Fracplanet make earth like backgrounds http://www.bottlenose.demon.co.uk/share/fracplanet/ Pov Ray http://www.povray.org/ Krita http://www.koffice.org/krita/

11. Art Blender http://www.blender.org Video projects, animation www.kdenlive.org Pencil http://www.pencil-animation.org/ Comic Life Apple only Toonlet http://toonlet.com/ online comics Redbubble www.redbubble.com Animoto. (free to teachers only) http://animoto.com/ Inkscape www.inkscape.org Cinelerra cinelerra.org linux only

12. Music CD/DVD burning software (Windows) http://infrarecorder.org/ Audacity mixing,built in effects (All) http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Rosegarden (Linux) http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Anvil (Windows) http://www.anvilstudio.com/ Mixxx Online DJ http://www.mixxx.org/ Songbird http://getsongbird.com/

13. WebQuests http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/myoder/webquest.pdf http://www.slideshare.net/robiny/wiki-webquests http://lisahuff.pbworks.com/WebQuests Education World http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/archives/webquest_orig.shtml

14. Grading Programs Snapgrades free version available http://snapgrades.net Teachnology overall teacher friendly site http://www.teach-nology.com/ Gradekeeper free trial $20 lifetime all platforms www.gradekeeper.com Classroom Windows http://www.classroomwindows.com/ pc only

15. Operating Systems Chrome http://www.google.com/chrome netbook google software Moblin http://moblin.org/ netbook Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com/ netbook, pc and apple computers Linux http://www.linux.org/ apple and pc

16. Blogging Blogger Google https://www.blogger.com/ Blogspot same as blogger Twitter mini blog www.twitter.com Vox blog, photos, etc http://www.vox.com/ piczo www.pizco.com Podcasting www.loudblog.com

17. Webpage Kompozer (NVU) Web authoring www.nvu.com Yahoo free web is closing as of 10/2009 Piczo lower grades www.piczo.com Mozilla SeaMonkey http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ Bluefish http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ Context http://www.contextsoft.com/

18. Online Bookmarks RSS feed Delicious add tags,RSS feeds http://delicious.com/ Organize bookmarks http://www.portaportal.com/ My bookmarks http://www.mybookmarks.com/

19. Programming Alice and interactive program Middle school-college www.alice.org (all) Scratch Age 8 and up! (win/mac) http://scratch.mit.edu/ Kturtle http://edu.kde.org/kturtle/ (win,linux)

20. Other Remote control http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/ Lesson Planning http://moodle.org/ Money management www.gnucash.org www.turbocash.net/ Shows and movies www.hulu.com Virtual worlds www.secondlife.com www.opensourcewindows.org www.opensourcemac.org Mobile phone app www.info.net