Simon Marsden wrote:
Hi D
I am ICT co-ordinator in a primary school. Will any of the resources you
mention be helpful for primary pupils?
Open Office as useful as MS office. Certainly I can see no point in any
primary school buying MS.
You might be interested in Tuxpaint from newbreed software, a simple paint
package great fun supposed to be aimed at primary but even my year 11s
(15-16yrs) love it.
Audacity from audacity.org. Allows you to record sounds and manipulate them.
You can save as wav, mp3 ogg.
I have had loads of success with these in primary schools. I am an AST in ICT
with one of my responsibilities to cluster primaries and HOD of ICT.
Maybe a bit off list but in my mind anything that promotes open source
software gets my vote. Personally won't have anything but on my own
computer.
regards
Simon
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Hi Doreen,
I have standard FLOSS packages that I install on primary school
computers running Windows. The package includes.
OOo 2..0 obviously :)
Audacity as Simon suggested. Excellent software as powerful as Soundforge
Inkscape illustration programme
The GIMP the Gnu Image Manipulation Programme
NVU html editor
For Juniors I also add Artrage 1.1 from
http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html
It's not open source but it is freeware.
In the same classification I also install Irfanview
As well on linux boxes I throw in Tuxtype. Not really mature yet but a
bit of learning fun
For those schools that I have linux running, I install SuSE 9.3 Pro, it
has an excellent selection of Edutainment programmes.
Cheers
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