On Friday 15/1/10, I will be taking over the NetIntelligence stand (N31) and presenting for 30 minutes on the free software I use in my school. Below are follow up videos I have prepared. One in detail about iTalc classroom management software, the other an overview of free or open source software applications we are currently using at my school, also available on my youtube channel.
The overview screencast:
This is a better image of the open source software iTalc.
http://italc.sourceforge.net/ Youtube (not mine) of iTalc at work:iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways. It supports Linux and Windows 2000/XP (Vista support will come) and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!
In contrast to widely used commercial equivalent software, iTALC is free! This means you do not have to pay for expensive licenses or things like that. Furthermore the source-code is freely available and you're free in changing the software to fit your needs as long as you respect the terms of iTALC's license (GPL). Freedom in two ways!
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Netvibes is a tool I have played around with. See my public universe here. (screenshot below)
netvibes
I sometimes make a mistake with tools. The wood gets in the way of the trees and I start developing the use of something as an example (facility) for the whole school (see subject tabs at top of image). Big mistake.
The right (?) thing to do is to make use of it yourself for your own teaching. That then serves as an example to others of how it might be used.
I just saw this tweet:
lindseyb16: Netvibes Page for #blc09 info, http://is.gd/1NPoJ especially like the mobile site from november learning http://is.gd/1NPry.
If you check out the links you’ll see a netvibes mashup of pages bringing together all the information on one conference into one place. The BLC (Building Learning Communities) conference.
I was so impressed I wrote this post. Imagine how you could bring everybodys contributions into one space. Blogposts. Tweets. Facebook updates. Links. Relevant reading material. Widgets. Not all these things are happening in my classroom right now but I like the idea of pulling everything that everybody does into one space. You could have a different page for each topic or project. You could link to it from the subject/course homepage. It might be a bit tricky to get all the work going in feedable formats but if you’re using Google Apps then all work could be published and fed out to the netvibes page, even if via a social bookmarking tool.
Obviously this would be vulnerable to misuse and abuse, but it could moreover be a fantastic way of bringing cohesion to your teaching and learning.
I am an ICT teacher, a Google Certified teacher, and an e-learning enthusiast. If you think I can be of any help, feel free to contact me via a comment or twitter.
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