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New Free Software disc available 13 May 2012 | 07:15 pm
There is a new Free Software for Students disc available, featuring the latest versions of some old favourites and adding in some new ones. Teachers and students of Film or Media may find the newly Op...
Schoolstech.org.uk wants your input 18 Jan 2012 | 12:58 am
Naace and the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), working with the Department for Education, have created a site to encourage a public discussion on the implications of new technology developme...
Google Code-In 9 Nov 2011 | 08:51 pm
Alison Daniel-Cutler of Google's pre-university education team writes: Code In is Google's contest to introduce pre-university students (age 13-17 years old) to the many kinds of contributions that m...
Alsa Modular Synthesiser 25 Oct 2011 | 11:01 pm
I have been playing with a piece of software call Alsa Modular Synthesiser(AMS) for a long time. AMS is an emulation of an Analog Synthesiser and this piece of software would allow someone to cover th...
Shib report - Why it isn't working as planned 20 Oct 2011 | 05:28 am
Might be of interest to some people: http://john.primarypad.com/single-sign-on-writeup
Sight reading software 19 Oct 2011 | 02:21 am
I have come across a piece of OSS software for practising skills in keyboard playing. (well any midi instrument I suppose). It is written in java and I have dome tests on Openjava as well as on a Mac....
Conference follow up 5 May 2011 | 02:01 am
The 'Opening opportunities - freeing learning' conference in April showed that interest in the use of open source software in schools continues to be strong and is spreading beyond the original conver...
FabriCamp Lx 1 22 Apr 2011 | 06:26 pm
Open Source Design and Making I always seem to find out about these events after they've occured. but I'll be watching for the next one. There seems to be more and more open-source materials for the...
SketchChair 22 Apr 2011 | 05:54 am
The furniture designer in me loves this idea. open-source software that takes a sketch of a chair design and turns it into a set of files that can use a Computer controlled router and make your desig...
national leadership conference - please help promote it 19 Feb 2011 | 05:31 am
We want to recruit headteachers and senior leaders to our conference to show them the potential benefits and cost savings offered by open source software whether used alone or blended with proprietary...
