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Asymptopia Crossword Builder
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Asymptopia Crossword Builder is a JavaScript education application that runs in any modern internet browser but does not require an internet connection.
The simple controls allow teachers or parents to create unlimited math crosswords, or supply their own word:hint pairs.
Support has recently been added for French, Spanish, pt-Brasillian, Kiswahili, and special characters (accents, tildes etc), in general. Some suggested uses include: cities, countries, lattitudes and longitudes to teach geography and spherical trig, simultaneously; Periodic table word:hint pairs; Language[i]:Language[j] word:hint pairs, for foreign language learning exercise; Terminology practice with virtually any other subject.
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Asymptopia
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Canorus Free Music Score Editor
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Canorus is a free music score editor. It supports note writing, scripting, import/export of various file formats, MIDI input and output.
Canorus is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Canorus runs on Linux, Windows, MacOSX, and other platforms.
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Canorus
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Celestia Free Space Simulation
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Celestia is free space simulation that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.
All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.
Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. But if that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects.
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Celestia
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Childsplay Suite of Educational Games
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Childsplay is a suite of educational games for young children, like gcompris. Childsplay uses a plugin system for the games, so you might want to check the Childsplay plugins page. (There are two built-in games: memory and a typing game.)
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Childsplay
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Claroline Open Source eLearning and eWorking Platform
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Claroline is an open source eLearning and eWorking platform allowing teachers to build effective online courses and to manage learning and collaborative activities on the web. Translated into 35 languages, Claroline has a large worldwide users’ and developers’ community.
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Claroline
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ClaSS Student System
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A complete student tracking, reporting and information management system. ClaSS extends the reach of traditional systems by using the latest in web-application methodologies to include the whole school community. ClaSS aims to be the ubiquitous classroom information assistant for schools.
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ClaSS
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eFront Free Open Source e-learning Platform
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eFront is an open source e-learning platform (also known as a Course Management System (CMS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)).
eFront is designed to help create online courses with opportunities for rich interaction, and comes with a distinctive icon-based user interface that is intuitive to use.
The platform offers a wide range of features, including content creation, a test builder, project management, extended statistics, internal messaging system, forum, chat, surveys and more.
Several features of the platform (for example, skills management and organization structure) make it suitable for inner organization usage, especially at HRM departments. eFront is a multilingual platform offered in 39 languages.
As well as being available as a free download, commercial versions are also available.
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eFront
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Field of View Calculator - Telescope
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Free open source calculator written in PHP.
Use this calculator to work out the true/actual field of view when using a telescope eyepiece.
All telescope eyepieces have an apparent field of view, which is normally something like 50o or 60o. This information is normally supplied by the eyepiece manufacturer. The true/actual field of view is much smaller than this, and will be more like 0.5o to 2o. This is the area of the sky you will see when using a particular eyepiece in a particular telescope.
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Field of View Calculator
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GCompris Educational Software Suite
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GCompris is an educational software suite consisting of numerous activities for children aged between 2 to 10.
Subject areas include: computers, algebra, science, geography, games, reading, and puzzles. Currently GCompris offers in excess of 100 activities and more are being developed.
GCompris is free software, that means that you can adapt it to your own needs, improve it and, most importantly, share it with children everywhere. It is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
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GCompris
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IUP Portfolio Educational Platform
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IUP Portfolio is an education platform for Swedish schools, focused around the students individual development plan ("Individuell utvecklingsplan", IUP) and learning portfolio.
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IUP Portfolio
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jMemorize Application
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jMemorize is a free open source Java application that manages your learning processes by using flashcards and the famous Leitner system.
jMemorize makes memorizing facts not only more efficient but also more fun. It boosts your whole learning experience and features categories, statistics and a visually appealing and intuitive interface.
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jMemorize
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Little Wizard Development Environment
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Little Wizard is a development environment for children. It is intended to be used by primary school children to learn about the main elements of real computer languages.
Using only the mouse, children can explore programming concepts such as variables, expressions, loops, conditions, and logical blocks. Every element of the language is represented by an intuitive icon, making it easy to learn. Little Wizard works under Linux and Windows 2000/XP.
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Little Wizard
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Moodle E-learning Software Platform
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Moodle, which stands for, Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment, is a free and open source e-learning software platform, also known as a Course Management System (CMS), Learning Management System (LMS), or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Moodle is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites. It is designed to help educators create online courses with a focus on interaction and collaborative construction of content.
It has a significant user base with 45,721 registered and verified sites, containing 32 million users in 3 million courses (as of January, 2010).
Moodle is primarily developed by Moodle Pty Ltd (based in Perth, Western Australia), supported by a large global community of users and developers. Moodle's open source license and modular design allow any developer to create additional modules and features.
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Moodle
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Multiplication Station
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Multiplication Station will teach your child to add, subtract and multiply ... Guaranteed! Version 0.5.0 is a complete rewrite of previous versions, and brings the code into alignment with the latest versions of TuxMathScrabble and TuxWordSmith.
The application can be configured for addition, subtraction and multiplication. The number ranges can be configured, and the grid size can also be configured to suite your preference. Only the most important configuration variables are shown by default, the remainder being configurable by selecting the "ShowAll" toggle in the Administrator control panel.
There are no more user accounts, or separate administrator account. The data-recording functionality has also been removed in the interest of simplicity. The countdown timer is still there, however, to keep kids focused.
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Multiplication Station
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MuseScore Free Music Score Typesetter
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MuseScore is a free WYSIWYG music score typesetter for Linux, and is licenced under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
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MuseScore
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NoteEdit Free Music Score Editor
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NoteEdit is a free music score editor for Linux. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of written notes, chord markings, lyrics, a number of import and export filters to many formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MUP, PMX, MusiXTeX and LilyPond and more!
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NoteEdit
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Sakai Community of Academic Institutions
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Designed by educators for educators, Sakai is an enterprise teaching, learning and academic collaboration platform that best meets the needs of today's students, instructors and researchers.
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Sakai
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Stellarium Planetarium
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Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like you see would with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
Stellarium is really useful for novice astronomers, making it very easy to find objects in the night sky.
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Stellarium
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Telescope Aperture Light Gathering Calculator
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Free open source calculator written in PHP.
Use this calculator to compare the light gathering capabilities of two telescope apertures.
When people talk about 'how good' a telescope is, they are normally referring to the magnification the telescope offers. In fact, it is the light gathering capability of a telescope that is the most important factor when determining 'how good' a telescope is.
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Telescope Aperture Calculator
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TUX Paint - Open Source Drawing Software for Children
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Tux Paint is a free and open source bitmap graphics editor (a program for creating and processing raster graphics) geared towards young children (between 3 and 12 years old).
The project was started in 2002 by Bill Kendrick who continues to maintain and improve it, with help from numerous volunteers. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Tux Paint combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.
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TUX Paint
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