Linux and Education

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GeoGebra, a GPL-licensed teaching and learning tool that integrates geometry, algebra, and calculus, benefits both teachers and students alike. Developed by Markus Hohenwarter at Florida Atlantic University, GeoGebra constructs geometrical figures and demonstrates the relationship between geometry and algebra. GeoGebra can help you create interactive demonstrations and precise images of geometric figures for inclusion in teaching and testing materials.

GeoGebra is a cross-platform application written in Java, and it works with Java 1.4.2 or above. You can download the installer from the GeoGebra site. In the case of Linux, the installer is a shell script that unpacks the JAR files and libraries and creates a launcher for the application. Administrators can do a system-wide installation, while ordinary users can install the software in their home directories for personal use. You can run GeoGebra with the command geogebra.
http://www.geogebra.org/

Also
(kplot)
alternatives exist for those (like me) who dislike java

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Heavily funded by the European Union, the Science, Education, and Learning in Freedom (SELF) consortium launched the beta version of its site this week with the motto, "Be SELFish, share your knowledge!" By the end of the year, SELF hopes to develop into the Wikipedia of free learning materials, with a heavy emphasis on material about open standards and free and open source software (FOSS)
http://beta.selfplatform.eu/

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WorkshopLive.com is a virtual music school that features dozens of professional instructors teaching lessons online for all levels of expertise, in guitar, bass, keyboard, and drums. When WorkshopLive was in the early stages of development, the company had limited funds to devote to hardware, software, and human resources, so CTO Marilyn Hoefner decided to give open source software a try. "We've been extremely happy," Hoefner says.

Hoefner's mandate was to create a site rich in multimedia, including video teaching and animated fretboards to demonstrate chord fingering. "We needed a fairly powerful platform, but we didn't have a lot of money to spend," she says.

http://www.workshoplive.com/

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People are often looking for a CAD solution for Linux but don't know that there is a full distro.CAELinux, a PCLinuxOS-based distribution with a collection of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) software. "This first stable version of CAELinux is now officially released. Thanks to the new PCLinuxOS 2007 distribution base and the unique Salome_Meca 2007 FEA suite, CAELinux 2007 represents a jump in stability and ease of use, and we hope that you will enjoy it. As usual, this release is available either as a installable live DVD distribution or under Windows with our pre-configured VMware edition.
http://www.caelinux.com/

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some more links

Computer Science Video Lectures
http://freescienceonline.blogspot.co...-lectures.html

Learn how to bring the benefits of podcasting to your classroom

http://www.poducateme.com/

A Big List of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tutorial_sites.php

How to Develop a Mindset for Math

http://betterexplained.com/articles/...dset-for-math/

Highlights for High School

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/home/home/index.htm

http://www.sharpbrains.com/teasers/

http://ask.metafilter.com/76702/What...ating-podcasts

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one of a number of online video-sharing start-ups designed to let scientists broadcast themselves toiling in the laboratory or delivering lectures.
http://www.scivee.tv/

http://www.jove.com/
short for the Journal of Visualized Experiments — is the digital mirror to traditional scientific journals

http://www.labaction.com/
focuses on sharing biological techniques

http://www.dnatube.com/
encourages scientists to upload videos of their studies, lectures and seminars

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Free/Open-source Educational Software for Kids
Tux Paint
Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12
http://www.tuxpaint.org/download/

Canorus
Canorus is a free music score editor. It supports note writing, scripting support, import/export of various file formats, MIDI input and output and more!
https://canorus.berlios.de/

Celestia
The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

Childsplay
Childsplay is a suite of educational games for young children, like gcompris, but without the overkill of c/c++ and the gnome environ. Also the use of the SDL libraries makes smooth animation and the playing of sound very easy.
http://childsplay.sourceforge.net/

GCompris
GCompris is an educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational. Below you can find a list of categories with some of the activities available in that category.
http://gcompris.net/

Stellarium
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
http://www.stellarium.org/


TuxMath
"Tux, of Math Command" ("TuxMath," for short) is an educational arcade game starring Tux, the Linux mascot!
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxmath/

There are also a lot of great free and open source educational applications available in KDE Education project.
http://edu.kde.org/

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Until now — and probably for a while in most heads — the GNU/Linux system at school has been perceived as a good replacement of other proprietary servers. However the server is probably the least important things in term of freedom in a school network. It doesn't allow a teacher to share a workstation software with students. Supporting GNU/Linux in the workstation side can grant higher freedom and liberty between users in a school.. Therefore, OFSET has setup Freeduc, a tool to help to list, to evaluate and to package only free — non GPL exclusive - edu soft.

http://www.ofset.org/freeduc-cd


Interactive mathematics on the internet
http://wims.unice.fr/

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LliureX is an Edubuntu-based live DVD developed by the Council of Culture, Education and Sport at the Municipality of Valencia in Spain, designed for deployment in schools throughout the region. A new version, based on Edubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn", was announced yesterday. New features include: full support for Valencian and Spanish, with additional language modules for other regional languages of Spain, as well as English, French, German, Arabic, Russian and Romanian; improved hardware support and up-to-date software with two years of guaranteed security updates; GNOME 2.18 desktop, OpenOffice.org 2.2 office suite, Firefox 2.0 web browser and Linux kernel 2.6.20; new and more robust system of auto-configuration with a transparent installation of configuration files. Read the full release announcement (in Spanish) for further details.

http://lliurex.net/home/

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EduPup. EduPup, a light GNU/Linux distribution based on Puppy Linux, is dedicated to children and their teachers and parents. It includes the following educational programs: TuxType2, TuxMath, ChildsPlay, TuxPuck and TuxPaint.

http://www.edupup.org/

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Linguas OS is a Linux operating system adapted for translators. Linguas OS was initiated by Anthony Baldwin. , Linguas OS was created for two purposes:
1) to demonstrate to professionals in the translation industry that they need not be enslaved to propietary software vendors, rather, that they can use FOSS (Free Open Source Software) alternatives, and;
2) For translators already usingLinux and FOSS tools, Linguas OS is a prefab distro solution.
Linguas OS is based on PCFluxboxOS .
http://www.baldwinlinguas.com/linguasos.html

more here
http://www.linuxfortranslators.org/linux/linux.html
and here
http://www.proz.com/translation-articles/articles/125/



http://www.omegat.org/en/omegat.html
OmegaT is a free translation memory application written in Java. It is a tool intended for professional translators. It does not translate for you! (Software that does this is called "machine translation", and you will have to look elsewhere for it.) OmegaT has the following features:

* Fuzzy matching
* Match propagation
* Simultaneous processing of multiple-file projects
* Simultaneous use of multiple translation memories
* External glossaries
* Document file formats:
XHTML and HTML
Microsoft Office 2007 XML
OpenOffice.org/StarOffice
XLIFF (Okapi)
MediaWiki (Wikipedia)
Plain text
* Unicode (UTF-Cool support: can be used with non-Latin alphabets
* Support for right-to-left languages
* Compatible with other translation memory applications (TMX)