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=What More Could You Ask For? Open Source Software in Education=

Open Sores?
Open Source is not just Linux... its for Windows and OS X, too. Open Source is not a risk... its a proven development model. Open Source is not just for geeks... it’s for the people.

Glasnost
Open, as in openness Source, as in source code Free, as in freedom

Open Source is...
Stable Secure Feature Rich

A Quick Demo!
I’m Using Open Office!

History and Concepts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source http://www.opensource.org http://www.gnu.org

Open Source in Education!
www.osef.org

Web Browsing: Firefox
Alternative to Internet Explorer Stable and Secure Blazing Fast Tabs http://getfirefox.com/

Instant Messaging
[| GAIM] (Windows) [| FIRE] (OS X) Jabber

Open Office
Alternative to MS Office! Writer (Word processing) Impress (Presentations) Calc (Spreadsheets) Draw, Math, Basic, & Base http://www.openoffice.org

The GIMP
Alternative to Photoshop! Photo Retouching, Image Composition, and Image Authoring No CMYK or Vector Graphics http://www.gimp.org/

Linux: An Open Source OS
Various Distributions Includes applications Fedora Linux http://fedora.redhat.com

Web Based Applications
http://www.apache.org http://www.wordpress.org http://www.moodle.org

Find More Open Source Software
http://www.sourceforge.net http://www.k12opensource.com http://www.edtechlife.com [| Google] it!

Other “free” software
Freeware “Shareware” Google Tools :)

Reflection
How might you use open source software in your position? What are your next steps?

Additional Links
Steve Hargadon - http://www.stevehargadon.com

Discussion
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Contact Information
Mark Wagner - mark@edtechlife.com (Feel free to add your information by clicking on "Edit This Page" above!)