Adobe Photoshop is arguably the most popular image editing software in the world. It is a very mature and complete product. However, the down-side to the software is its price tag of around $500. This is out of the reach of most schools. I use an alternative in my computer lab called GNU Image Manipulation [...]
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Sun Microsystems has a wonderful open-source office suite of programs that anyone can use for free. It is called OpenOffice. It is release under the GPL license and it is available for download at www.openoffice.org. This package includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software, drawing program and database. It can also read and write Microsoft [...]
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What is an Open Source Educator? An educator who uses open source software and “open source ideas” in the classroom. What is open source software? Basically, it is software that has been donated by programmers from around the world to be used free of charge. “Open Source” means that the source code of the program [...]
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