Free+Software

Free Software

Teachers - please feel free to download and play with these.


 * **Alice ** – awesome object oriented programming language
 * **ArtRage** - paint program
 * **Audacity** - Sound recorder and editor that exports to mp3 for podcasting.
 * **Avast** - - free home anti-virus software.
 * **Blender** - – 3d modeling and animation program.
 * **Celestia** - is like “Google Earth” for the solar system.
 * **CMap** – concept mapping program like Inspiration
 * **Eclipse Crossword** - / - Create an interactive crossword puzzle and publish to the web or played in a browser.
 * **Firefox** - web browser
 * **FreeMind** - – like a free version of “Inspiration”
 * **GIMP** – the GNU Image Manipulation Program, like a fully-featured but free version of Photoshop.
 * **GnuPlot** - great graphing tool, anything from simple equations to complex 3d topographies
 * **Graph** - graph plotting software
 * **JAlbum** – build a digital album
 * **K9 Web Protection** – Free home internet filter
 * **MathTrax** – equation plotter, sound component, even does polar equations
 * **Molecular toolkit** – manipulate nucleic acid and protein sequence data.
 * **Monkey Jam** – an animation program
 * **Moodle** – classroom management system
 * **Nvu** - A good (free) web editing program
 * **Phet** – science simulations
 * **Photostory-** Create and share multimedia stories effectively and easily. [|Photostory_Quick_Reference]
 * **Picasa** – photo organizer,[|free editing and posting]
 * **Scratch** – programming language
 * **Sketchup (Google)** – build, view and edit 3D models
 * **Stellarium** ([|)] – ike having a planetarium on your computer.
 * **Turbo Cash** – open source personal finance software
 * **Tux Paint** - a free paint program for very young kids (3 years old and up)
 * **Tux Typing** - a cute free typing program for elementary school kids
 * **Wink** – Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software