Free Content + Open Tools + Massive Collaboration = Learning For All

Karen Fasimpaur from K12 Handhelds

Karen did a great job presenting the plethora of tools and options that are available in the open area.

Open Educational Resources can help us reshape education by providing free high quality resources”.

K12 Open Ed

Workshop Notes

Sites:

Tools:
CamStudio
http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/

GIMP
http://www.gimp.org/

Audio
Creative Commons Mixter
http://ccmixter.org/

MusOpen – Classical
http://www.musopen.com/

Wikimedia Commons Music
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Spoken Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoken_articles

Freesound Project
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/

Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/details/audio

Photo:
Stock XCHNG
http://www.sxc.hu/

Open Photo
http://openphoto.net/

Morguefile
http://www.morguefile.com

Educational Content
Wikibooks and Wikijunior
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

Curriki
http://www.curriki.org

WikiEducator
http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page

Free-Reading
http://www.free-reading.net

MIT OpenCourseware
http://ocw.mit.edu

Wikipedia for Schools

Audio Books and eBooks
LibriVox
http://librivox.org/

Spoken Alexandria Project
http://www.alexwilson.com/telltale/spokenalexandria.php

Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

LoudLit
http://www.loudlit.org/

Lit2Go
http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go

More Options
SchoolForge – all school related software including SIS

SourceForge – all areas

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